Had the same cables also for 15 yrs...good pairing.It took days/to a week for my zavfinos to really start to open up (bought used).Same with my venhaus.Dont over stuff your room...leave some liveliness imho.
Power cords or power conditioner
I’m at a cross roads and I’m looking for some advice from those have have gone down this road. I recently added a 2 channel integrated amplifier to improve my 2 channel performance. I had been using my Datasat LS-10 for music and while it sounded really nice, it was missing the depth and clarity that I know my speakers are capable of. My speakers are KEF Reference 3s, rest of my 2 channel set is is as follows:
Luxman L 509x
Luxman D-03x
Roon Nucleus Plus
Lumin U2 Mini
Transparent Audio Super speaker cables
Nordorst Red Dawn XLR, Blue Heaven USB
Wire World Platinum USB
All power cables are DYI using Oyaide Tsunami V2 cable
So what I feel I am missing is that 3D holographic sound stage. It was there with the Luxman 509 when I demo’d it, but I am unable to get that experience at my house. I feel that majority of equipment is up to the task but I am curious if I should ad a top shelf power condtioner like a Shunyata Triton or Torus AVR20 into the system or replace my Intergrated’s power cord with a Shunyata Alpha NC? I’m getting tapped out, so for now it can only be one or the other.
Or should I skip the above and focus on room treatments?
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In MHO, power cables, treatments and room treatments will add nominal improvements at best (unless your room and current cables are FUBR : ) Perhaps a very good DAC can add some dimensionality and image layering? Soekris, Mytek, Briscasti etc Lots out there and most give you a 30 day trial.
Cheers,
P
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@paul_lindemann I'm beginning to think the same thing. I've added many things over the past month, and the over all improvement is small but improved in regards to layering. I think the biggest improvement was swapping out my interconnects and speaker cables. I'm going to pull the power conditioner when I have time and see if I can hear a difference with and without it. When I demo'd my Luxman I used a $20k Aurender Streamer, so I suppose it is hard to expect a $4k CD player/DAC to give me the same sound. Either way, I do have it sounding really nice now. All of the little improvements have made a noticeable improvement over the past month. For now I am sitting tight, but a Bricasti DAC is on my "to try" list. |
@jasonbourne52 you keep repeating yourself, like those annoying commercials between two Youtube videos. Yawn. |
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