ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Happy Holidays and Your Favorite Tips? Listen to live acoustic music as often as possible. Sometimes when you do, listen critically… to the relation of detail to core instruments, how bass arrives, the sound stage, venue reflections. Micro details of cymbles, leading edge of the sa... | |
| Needle resilience 😊👍. We all occasionally do something like that. Good equipment takes it in stride. | |
| What was the best (most impactful) piece of new equipment to hit the market in 2023? @kennyc +1 Linn DSM | |
| Weakest link in my system OP, From what you said Wilson Alexx sounds like a good choice. | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape @knittersspouse Congratulations on your upcoming retirement. It can be a the greatest of times for audio, it sure has been for me. | |
| High quality recordings any genre @mapman Thank you for your kind words. If you are ever out in the Portland, Oregon area… give me a shout. | |
| Weakest link in my system OP, Yes, I understand. | |
| Which Shunyata Power Cord? I have not had that good of luck with Shunyata, but spectacular luck with the new AudioQuest Storm series. @audphile1 +1 on Hurricane! I found the Audio Quest to be completely and utterly neutral, with incredibly low noice floor and dynamics o... | |
| Weakest link in my system You have a great system. But the answer is: The B&W 800 speakers. I own Audio Research Reference 6SE preamp, Reference CD9Se, Reference 160 amps … and in my home theater B&W 805 matrix speakers and B&W 800 series subwoofers. T... | |
| Why isn't better quality used gear being made available? OP… “Maybe the manufacturers agree to take it back in some crazy financial maneuver to get it off the market.” Ok, now that is a crazy conspiracy theory. My dealer takes trade-ins and sells them to a company that assesses and then either sells... | |
| Pending shipping questions. I will admit, I was wondering about the cost. But it was sent by a trucking company because it is undoubtedly heavier than UPS or FedEx will ship. Trucking companies are information holes. It’ll show up in a couple weeks. | |
| Balanced connections to my VPI turntable? Good question. I would be interested in hearing the results of anyone that has done this. It just seems completely unnecessary to me. More of a fad, with no actual sonic benefit. The result of balanced components have become so common. But I am al... | |
| What was the best (most impactful) piece of new equipment to hit the market in 2023? I can’t imagine too many people are in a position to answer that question. It is such a question requiring such broad exposure. I certainly do not. With all due respect… I really am conflicted to say this… but, the Grimm is a nice sounding str... | |
| Music server vs. external hard drive to DAC Assuming we compare the red book CD, vs stored file, versus streaming. Assuming the same quality of the equipment feeding the DAC, then they would be all the same. However, Qobuz has over half a million albums of higher resolution. So, this is wh... | |
| Stand mount speakers to replace Magnepan 1.6’s I would look for stand mounted speakers with AMT (air motion transducers). They will give you the air, transparency and midrange of the Maggie’s. |