ghdprentice
Responses from ghdprentice
| When a power cord could obviously affect SQ My experience with power cords and amps are that it is one of the most sensitive to high quality wires in a high end system. Typically speaker wire first, power cord to amp, then interconnects then the rest of system and then power cords to the r... | |
| Best bang for the buck I'm going to have to say that it was probably the Emerson turquoise plastic transistor radio from the late 1950's... maybe $10 or $15. The biggest step was from none to some. | |
| Balance Control All the preamps and integrate amps I have ever owned have had balance controls. Good to know they don't. I find balance control to be occasionally useful. | |
| video about taking delivery of large electrostatic panels that replaced my TADs. Beautiful speakers. I bet they sound wonderful as well. Congratulations. | |
| Speaker cables - cables make a difference @jerrybj +1 Me too! | |
| Question for the older folks- did you ditch vinyl when cd arrived? @audphile1 Quboz was not available in the late 80s the 1990s and early 2000s, Nor was the iPhone or iPad. | |
| Help! Treble Trouble! Now it finally dawned on me. Do you have a second system in the house. A friend with some not to hard to move speakers? Haul in something and swap them in. Same problem? | |
| Question for the older folks- did you ditch vinyl when cd arrived? No. I bought a top of the line CD player... quiet backgrounds and great bass but terrible midrange and treble, Started collecting CDs. but mostly for travel. | |
| Is anyone still using a CD Player @kennyc i think so. Here is what ChatGPT says: Here’s a rough sense of coverage: 1960s: ~90–98% of major U.S. and U.K. Top 100 hits. 1970s: ~95–99%. 1980s: ~97–99%. 1990s: ~98–99%. They have 8 to 10 million albums and half a million ... | |
| About the Matrix Audio ND-1 DAC @curiousjim I never thought of ARC as a place to look for DACs. My dealer had brought over a pair of Ref 160 mononblocks for me to use for a while (turned out to be a year and a half). Anyway, he also brought over a Ref CD9SE... basically a DAC ... | |
| Designer in wall wiring - worth it? I used 10 gauge romex. I was aware there was high end wire for direct lines... but didn't go that far. If someone has, I'd be interesting how it compared before. I would guess that it was better. But no experience on my part. | |
| Is anyone still using a CD Player In the early 2000’s I ripped all my CDs and played from storage. Then as streamers became better I transferred them to my streamer. I gave away my CDs and the stopped playing my ripped CDs. So, I haven’t played a ripped CD for a couple years. Befo... | |
| Do Audiophiles Hear Real Differences, or Are They Justifying Expensive Purchases? @rbstehno I bought a set of Blue Jeans just to check out the buzz. I can't say they sounded terrible. But they sounded no better than Belkin or Monster typical OEM. | |
| Speaker cables - cables make a difference Cool. Congratulations. It is great when you experience a nice bump in performance. | |
| Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups @phusis There are almost always two variable when comparing audio components, sound family and sonic quality. It is important to be able to tell the difference. I've been listening to audio components for decades and often listen to a single com... |