ghdprentice
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| Lumin D2 or Aurender N100H I own two Aurrender. I still have my N100 (it may be an H)… it sounds great and has performed flawlessly for many years. | |
| New Speaker cables. Congratulations. Thanks for your comments. | |
| Tube Amp or Tube Pre Amp I am experienced with both. It kind of depends. I definitely recommend a tubed -preamp (Audio Research my preference, or Conrad Johnson or VAC). This will add a more musical and natural sound to your system. Hard to see a downside. Definitely the ... | |
| Fun read... @kennyc +1 | |
| DAC question - is music streamer DAC better than mcintosh DA2? @john1629 Yes better streamers will net you better sound… I agree with you, it is usually hard to see how… until you hear the difference, then you know. Sonus Faber and DynAudio are great speakers. If you could decide which you like better and ... | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? OP, Just because you don’t get it now, does not mean you will not over time. It took me decades. Then suddenly the lightbulb popped on. I was in Dallas about twenty years ago. I went to this dealer / home… hobby gone wild. The entire house wa... | |
| Which power cord should you buy first Amplifier. Likely to make a very big difference. Typically twice the difference that would come from other components. I highly recommend trying Audioqurst Hurricane if you want transparent sound (that is, exactly what your components sound l... | |
| analyzing sound @sunmoon +1 Excellent. Thank you… this is really cool. OP, i’m 72. But have passionately pursued high end audio since college. Let me just recommend a couple things to accelerate your learning curve. First get Robert Harley’s book. The ... | |
| AR Ref 160s or Luxman M10x I run my REF 160 in triode mode as well. | |
| Room with glass windows as a walls. @rodman99999 +1 | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? While, in general, I don’t like McGowen’s PRaTel, he certainly acknowledges its existence in the video. So, I agree with him. What he doesn’t talk about is how to sense it. I think it is about the hardest of the attributes to sense (although once ... | |
| Room with glass windows as a walls. If acoustic treatments are not possible. Then the route to go would be to use very warm components and speakers, less resolving lowering treble. | |
| Six DAC Comparison I doubt that many folks go for PRaT only. Over my time pursuing the high end I ran into PRaT only systems, and was shockingly moved… but kept going because while they were incredibly emotionally involving… but they had wacko tonal balance and and ... | |
| Component matching expertise - how do you do it? Well, great question. But there is no easy answer. While components must be technically compatible. For the last fifty years I have chosen components and generally looked no deeper into technical aspects than watts per channel, current of the amp ... | |
| Interconnect Break In? OP 👍 |