@chipcalzone thanks for sharing Inakustik. Will have to check them out.
- ...
- 50 posts total
@hollandw I agree Cardas is a good company to deal with and generally makes quality products. Very unusual to have something from Cardas poop out twice. I’m sure they’ll stand behind it. |
I’ve just done some listening on multiple power supplies for the iFi Purifier Pro, and strangely it was the wall-wort that came with it that sounded best. I tried iFi’s top and second from top supplies and they just weren’t as open sounding even after a few hundred hours. I also tried a few ethernet and USB options from: Nordost, Shunyata, Synergistic Research, Cardas, Snake River, Pangea and Audio Quest. I liked the Cardas Clear best for both ethernet and USB but for 1/10 the cost the Pangea didn’t embarrass itself. I also moved my ONT close to my router since I had enough of the incoming FIOS fiber to do it. This allowed me to go to a short run of high end Cardas ethernet between ONT and router and cut out about 60’ of unnecessary lower quality ethernet. I think I’m going to take the recommendation of some other folks on here and go fiber out of the router to my DAC and use a Sonore Optical to convert back just before. |
One of the bigger improvements to streaming, which I made a few years back, was to add a linear power supply for my router. Verizon does not make it easy though, because they use some seemingly proprietary plug jack that has a just slightly bigger center pin than anything else I’ve found. Options are to chop the cable off the wall wort and use that, modify a nicer plug by drilling out the center and then soldering to decent wire, or just bypassing the plug jack and soldering wire to the board. I ended up removing the plug jack from the router board and directly soldering some Kimber cable in its place and running that to the linear power supply. Instantly better bass and weight to the streamed music. |
@ozzy I tried fiber into my Lumin X1 and preferred Ethernet cable. One might infer that, as usual, it’s all system/user preferential. (Got a different streamer and DAC and offered the X1 and Lumin Amp to my son and he didn’t want! I through I raised him right.) Will be selling them. |
- 50 posts total