ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? Most musicians don’t care. There are a few notable exceptions. But typically creating music is about stringing notes together, melodies... the structure... the performance. If they hear that clearly that is enough. They spend time in studios... a ... | |
| Does length matter ? Belden is a professional audio recording company. That is a different market. I’m not saying their is anything wrong with there products. I did some research on a competitor of theirs and concluded that dollar for dollar they were in line with hig... | |
| Your tube preamp and ss amp thread I have run a Audio Research tube preamp with a Pass X350 for over ten years. An excellent combination. I had stayed away from tube amps because of the reliability ‘ biasing need. Then a couple years ago the Audio Research rep came through with the... | |
| A phenomenal new CD transport-Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 transport I fairly recently got a top notch streamer and am happily saying goodbye to my wall of 2,000 CDs. Also, over the decades CD transports have shown themselves to re pretty unreliable. Still have my 2,000 LPs and will continue to casually collect those. | |
| Biggest audio hoaxes @oldhvymecYesDifferent people listen to and appreciate different aspects of the music they listen to. Some are sensitive to bass.. drum beats, tonal balance, midrange, imaging. My partner and I comment while watching a movie... we all notice the e... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @sns ...”This is a golden age of audio for me, far more choices of equipment , music, and accessibility to that music; what a time to be a young, budding audiophile! ”Yes. The level of performance per dollar has never been higher, and the cost of... | |
| Lots of cubic feet I doubt it is the ceilings. Placement, components... which B&W. All matter. B&W tend to be good with bass. | |
| Biggest audio hoaxes I haven’t actually run into any real hoaxes. I do a lot of research. Also, the CD Stop light pens work. Not night and day, but a noticeable improvement. There are still professional reviews of the pens. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @lckluiano “This new generation care more about how loud their system sounds, than how clean and natural it may sound. ”.Funny you say that. That was the primary interest initially when I got into high end audio in the 70’s. I forgot. But it morp... | |
| Does length matter ? Keeping the same length is the “correct” thing to do. I have just always stuck with the rule. Once I had heard the huge differences in interconnects and cables... and had gone through extensive (hundreds of hours of) comparisons carefully noting t... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? It has always been a very esoteric pursuit. It takes unique interests in music, a technical bent, with an appreciation of achieving the pinnacle of what is possible. Typically someone that likes to spend time alone. .In the 60’s and 70’s many coll... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @syndication. If you have $20K invested in used equipment at age 35 you have spent more than I had at your age ($ adjusted). High end audio has always been the pursuit of a few people of the best possible musical reproduction and experience. If yo... | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @athrillofhopeYou are very correct. No question.. but take a deep breath... relax... enjoy the moment. Put on some Kitaro. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? @kren0006. “... but for the older gents here, at the Hi-Fi height, let’s say 1970’s, what percentage of middle class households had what we would consider a hi-end system?10%? 20%? More?...”Excellent question. In the 1970’s. Much less than 1%Th... | |
| Keeping backup equipment? Let’s see how many amps have I had go out... in fifty years... actually more like 60 years... 0 failures. |