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Best earphone for the value
Grado GR10 or whatever this model is called, $400 in the ear headphones, are listenable but..I would still take on the ear Audeze Sine any day. Youtube or not the difference is striking. This comes from someone who generally prefers Grado RS1 Clas... 
Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions.
Well then, there is only the final chapter of this left - paying for the Nordost, unless you want to try it first with your coming streamer.Sorry, man, it's a hell of a lot of money any way you look at it. 
Wywires Silver to Platinum interconnects. How big an upgrade would that be ?
That's how I got the Silver, I asked Alex if he had some demo cables and he did.Exactly. Dynamics is just right, nothing is exaggerated, detailed but not overly so, no harshness.Also, I may be wrong but I suspect that somehow his Litz copper match... 
Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions.
Yeah, though I am a cable guy, I think that is too much. I would start with upgrading speakers and then cables. But everyone has his own crazy ways. Based only on the OP's review I would take Transparent if I had to, Nordost doesn't seem to have g... 
What are important features in a listening chair
Better pay $5k for a chair than for a cartridge or power cord, I guess.Not for me, though, I am on the floor too, and anyway, if the music is good it doesn't matter much unless you listen for hours straight which I don't. 
Home Demo Faceoff: Nordost / Audioquest / Transparent
nyev, if you are going to replace your speakers in not so distant future you might have to replace speaker cables as well.Try Wywires Platinum too, or even Diamond. Wywires company doesn’t generate much noise like Nordost, Audioquest and Transpare... 
Purist Audio Design in One word
sdv0983, I had the original Aqueous. If you can try current Neptune or at least Poseidon. I also really like Colossus fluid. Neptune is such a sophisticated and powerful cable with incredible soundstage. 
Ethernet Cable
Just got the Supra ethernet cable that some of you recommended. Excellent sound and picture right out of the box, we'll see how it goes after 100-200 hours. 
Would an Isolation TT platform further improve my TT?
Would you put performing musicians on active isolation platforms too ? Remember, seismic activity, traffic etc.Only passive isolation, my friends, active will introduce subtractive colorations - often the worst kind of colorations. 
Why Do You Love Being an Audiophile?
Music and sound are companions, so perhaps not such a lonely place after all. 
Need Suggestions
If you replace your speakers you must be prepared to replace your amps too. Usually, one does not match speakers to amps, it is the other way around. Also, you would want to match amp and preamp and preamp and phono stage. I personally would not r... 
Moderately priced audio
Yeah, another point is that what one calls moderately priced, either new or used, is very subjective, at least to the point. $5k new excellent amp is moderately priced in my view, $5k excellent cartridge is not. It doesn't matter whether or not I ... 
Moderately priced audio
Quite a number of people have good hearing. I demonstrated to a few of them how changing one pair of interconnects or one power cord can significantly make the sound better or worse. They were surprised indeed. And none of those interconnects and ... 
Importance of power cable for Turntable?
Power cord is an extension of the power supply not of the wall wires. Good well-matched cord will improve the performance of anything that has it. If you can't hear it something is wrong. At higher level one can clearly hear that different cords h... 
Moderately priced audio
Well, I don't have a single component in the system that cost me over $1k, either new or used, including cables and power cords. I count turntable/tonearm/cartridge as three components. But there are a lot of them, the components, so the total cos...