jsalerno277
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| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui S@ghdprentice Thank you for your insights on retirement. I will definitely look into “The Great Courses”. My wife is looking to retire mid-25 and we plan on traveling the US and EU. @mitch2 Thanks and I will continue on this sight to learn... | |
| Retirement System Finally Completed: Impression of the Mola Mola Tambaqui @ghdprentice I have been retired for a year. Now contemplating some part time consulting to keep the mind active. Thank you for your posts. You have been one of my audiophile mentors. @roxy54 I sit in the floral, high back, Early American cha... | |
| How easily can you distinguish between different DACs? Developing critical listening to discern differences in equipment takes time. It requires a person to listen to performed music, both acoustic and amplified, in different venues, and print their memory of their impression of sound. Yes, some wil... | |
| The Great DAC Mystery Long post. You appear find satisfaction and frustration in contemplating, philosophizing, and pontificating on audio engineering problems and solutions way beyond my level of comprehension. My recommendation is to relax using whatever meditative... | |
| Holographic DAC With Air And Decay @fanofmsu Yes I use the ISO and DC Recovery. They elevate the performance notably with a blacker background, better detail retrieval and imaging/staging. Replacing the Wyred supplied USB and wall wart LPS with higher quality products is mandator... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @ghdprentice Yes. When I put that that thought to type I was specifically thinking early DG digital remasters of some of the great performances they recorded in analog that, in analog suffered from shrill shrill strings and sibilance, exacerbated ... | |
| Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews? I have been in this hobby since the late ‘70s to see the transition from the school of thought that anything that measures well has excellent SQ, and anything that measures the same sounds the same, to publications that developed new lexicons to a... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital +1 @ghdprentice Eloquent and accurate as always. I would only add that I find some very early digital masters suffer compared to vinyl. To generalize, I find these are often albums where the original analog master was not well engineered and the... | |
| Holographic DAC With Air And Decay Sorry, I did not address air and decay. Both the 10th Anniversary and M3 have the ability to produce silent backgrounds. Both are excellent at reproducing micro as well as macro dynamics. Both are excellent at detail retrieval at their price po... | |
| Holographic DAC With Air And Decay As I preface, personally the R2Rs I have heard are too laid back. Many like that presentation. To each our own. That said, consider auditioning a used Wyred4Sound 10th Anniversary DAC or used Bricasti M3. Read the pro reviews on the ability o... | |
| ??? How Much Would You Spend ??? The rule of thumb I have most often seen is 30% on speakers, 30% on amplification (integrated or separate pre and power amps), 30% on the front end (streamer/DAC or TT/TM/Cartridge) and 10% on cables. I am an old audiophile and remember articles ... | |
| Bluesound mode not really cutting it Staying on question, IMHO, Aurender makes the best sounding streamers/servers. A used N150 or better, an N10 (listed in this forum for around $2,300 and $3,500 respectively where list is always negotiable) is your best bet. The bonus in buying a... | |
| New Speakers under consideration - but I’m afraid To answer your question directly, fear not, for I am confident you will find speaker technology dramatically improved with a proportionate improvement in sound quality over the past 20 years. While there are many similarities in improvements acro... | |
| Separates vs Integrated @audiotroy PS. You should have disclosed you are a Krell dealer in defensive posture. | |
| Separates vs Integrated @audiotroy I cannot comment on new Krell. I have not auditioned them in my on system. I compared the Burmester to the Krell models I had. I do not find Burmester equipment cool. It provides clarity without artificial chill . I find the house... |