It‘s a great machine. Insert an Intona Isolator into the Dac connection for galvanic isolation of the power line. I am using an Acoustic Revive RGC-24 attached to the screws holding the transformer to improve grounding as well as an Acoustic Revive RUT-1 on the spare USB port for significant gains in transparency and noise floor. As others mentioned, the choice of USB cable plays an important role on SQ. Again, Intona or Aqvox USB cables are highly recommended, if supported by your DAC preferably with separate or neutered power lines. ( Most Dacs these days need the power only for the hand shake and subsequently run happily without it). On Ethernet I use Meicord, cable length from switch or router should be as short as possible. Finally, clocking of the DAC is crucial when using USB since it slaves the server. Get the best clock on your DAC you can afford. Most of all enjoy the music, that‘s what the Innuos is all about.
Innuous Zenith Mk III Arrives Tomorrow
I've been streaming my digital library and Tidal/Roon through my Lyngdorf TDAI-3400 for the past couple of months via my NAS drive and I like the sound, but I've been dissatisfied with having to use my computer to control the server. I decided to order a Zenith III because I want to install my Roon core on this unit and have a self contained music server. I've heard so many great things from you folks on this board about the Innuous servers I decided to go for it.
For those of you who already own one, let me know if you have any advice for initial set up and best practices to achieve best results. I'm pretty excited to get it up and running.
For those of you who already own one, let me know if you have any advice for initial set up and best practices to achieve best results. I'm pretty excited to get it up and running.