ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? @petg60 “Nature itself is stronger than science, though with the later we try to comprehend the former. Most likely one of the reasons we create art is the necessity to complement science.”I would put it a little differently. Nature is very comple... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? I was trained and worked as a scientist for over ten years... but never stopped being one. When it came to high end audio, I learned about a few of the important technical aspects and I then quickly realized what a small part of the whole picture ... | |
| Half speed masters. Are they worth the extra scratch? I have purchased a number of half-speed mastered albums over the years, I’m guessing a dozen or 20. Most 33 1/3 rpm versions... most were noticeably better fidelity and to me worth it. But it has mostly to do with your values... I find now with st... | |
| Good headphone amplifier I have owned a number of solid state amps over the years. Including a Vioelectric that I imported from Europe for its high current capability, a Schiit Mojolir and some others. But for me Woo amps sound really natural and have enough power. I ahav... | |
| Dazed and confused about streamer upgrade I recommend an Aurender, N100SC as a good place to start. I have owned a host of PCs and lessor streamers and an Auralic Aries G2. Aurenders are outstanding products and extremely good value for sound/price. They are audiophile quality constructio... | |
| XLR cables, worth buying higher end? It really depends on you equipment, your ears, how critically you listen. You need to have a pretty good system to notice. Now, it will be noticeably louder... but not necessarily a noticeable difference in quality. The volume increase makes it re... | |
| Anyone have this problem? I have this happen occasionally (not Mac, I have Meridian) it seems that the audio handshake where it chooses the protocol fails. Where it is deciding DTS, or DD, or... | |
| Streaming an aid to enjoyment Full disclosure, I tweaked my system as well... I have an ISO ReGen, and a fancy Ethernet cable. I was buying an expensive piece of equipment, not the streamer) and my dealer threw them in. Some of my equipment was breaking in and I did not do any... | |
| Most comfortable headphones My partner stays up all night listening to the tv and music using Sennheiser 600’s. She has had the same pair for 20 years... we have an extra pair in case these wear out. She frequently ends up sleeping with them on. Kind of the definition of com... | |
| What Makes your System Special? Mine is its musicality... how seductive it is. After, about forty years of ribbon and electrostatic speakers, and massive amplifiers that gave me incredibly detailed and realistic paintings of the venue and each instrument... and of the musician t... | |
| Pure analog system with high power I have auditioned Maggie’s many times... they sound great with lots of good clean and natural power. But I have never bought them even though I have owned other ribbon and planar speakers. Then when I started attending the symphony moved to tradit... | |
| Center Channel Speaker Conundrum Typically 85% of content comes from the center channe when listening to home theater. So, sounds like a problem. I don’t own a Marantz so can’t help other than confirming your problem. | |
| Which Signal Gets The XLR Input? Hopefully you will buy a streamer that will outperform your CD player... thus making your CD player superfluous and you would use the XLR for that..Since the streamer is the gateway to nearly infinite music at CD quality and higher I recommend mak... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo @phusis ...”Lots of money has a tendency to make people lazy and unwilling to explore, and thus becomes more about gadgetry and buying expensive equipment simply because you can.”You seriously have no comprehension of people that make lots of mone... | |
| Need recommendations for 20' speaker cable I have to agree not to worry about arbitrarily short runs. I have always worried about them but never actually heard a difference..One thing that my trusted audio guy (30+ years) recommended was doing the long run between preamp and amp instead of... |