ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Does the streamer effect sound quality @mgattmch +1 Absolutely. | |
| What would you do? Preamp. The preamp is the heart and central component. That is where to start. A good tubed preamp will be very musical and reliable, and give you a taste for what is to come if you continue down the path. BTW, for the first twenty years in au... | |
| How good is good enough? OP, You bring up a really important issue. Once you upgrade, then you play music. If you have a detail scraping system… you end up hearing the worst possible rendition of any recording… only the very best recordings sound great. If your system i... | |
| another rookie question - preamp or or power amp @jnovak +1 | |
| What are the audio differences you hear with turntable Mats. @atmasphere That makes sense, if by that you mean, if it sounds better, then you can make appropriate adjustments to optimize it. I have to admit, I am very shy about throwing my turntable out of perfect adjustment. My audio guy adjusts it. | |
| Purchase on Audiogon arrived not as described This is an excellent thread. So, it reveals a possible reality of trying to save a few bucks… what is the aggregation of hours fighting if something goes wrong? Personally, I came up with a guideline for myself… “don’t buy something on line fr... | |
| Rediscovery Congratulations to you newly retired folks! I think I have passed the five year mark… now what was I saying? Oh, yes. Life is getting even better… although I really have enjoyed the time since I retired. I have always had more interests than I c... | |
| Table,cartridge,phono...where to put most of my money? OP… “So if I’m reading correctly the general concensus is cartridges are priority one followed by phono amp then table?” That’s fairly safe provided the turntable and arm are not too out of class. One of my biggest upgrades was my table and ar... | |
| Is it important to long demo or own HIGH END gear to have a fair accurate view about it? @waytoomuchstuff OP +1 | |
| Is it important to long demo or own HIGH END gear to have a fair accurate view about it? @asvjerry …”....I’m still stuck on ’grain in the treble’, and whether is was wheat or oats....” I would have to say actually more like sandy. I remember hearing about grainy treble. I could not for the life of me imagine what that would sound ... | |
| Eversolo a6 and Lampizator @carlsbad2 +1 To elaborate a bit… the Eversolo is a really inexpensive consumer grade streamer and DAC… the Lampizator is a high end audio DAC… completely inappropriate from two points of view… the Eversolo is an integrated box that does what... | |
| Impedance between Pre to Amp SE to Balanced I do not believe you will hear a substantial difference in sound quality by simply using RCA to XLR cables. The quality of the interconnects, and definitely the power cord will make a larger difference. I would not get rid of such a great and priz... | |
| ARC amplifier with Conrad Johnson Preamp Sounds like a match made in heaven. I know both, but separately. | |
| Is it important to long demo or own HIGH END gear to have a fair accurate view about it? @mahgister …”I dont know how people can think they had heard something in any room which is not their room , and with any complementary gear around it which is not their gear...”. I think you learn venues the same way you can learn to separate wh... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay @testpilot 😊 |