agisthos
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| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? When people ask I give them the price excluding all the cables, power distribution, tweaks and ancillaries, just so it does not sound so insane. | |
| Recommendation for Digital Coax The Empirical Design ED 120 Coaxial. It's not as good as my High Fidelity CT-1 Ultimate Reference digital, but it comes close and its so very low priced and affordable. https://www.empiricaldesign.net/digital-cables.html | |
| DC blockers - what's your experience My experience of using a few different DC blockers is they seem to choke the transient impact, bass and speed of the power amplifier. If you have DC issues, like I did in my last apartment, they can make the sound cleaner and clearer, but with th... | |
| Absolute Sound's "Reviews" The same company who owns TAS also own Hi-Fi + on the other side of the pond. Hi-Fi + is one of the best magazines in the industry, with a high calibre of writing and very good reviews. TAS has really gone downhill the last few years. If you subs... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @singingg Just start out with the iFi Power X. I just got 3 of them for all my 12v network hardware. I have an Uptone JS-2 and Farad Super 3 for some other gear but want to limit $ expenditure for now so stuck with the iFi. | |
| Inexpensive but good sounding power supply (and hard drive) for PC audio? One of my best friends has a PC front end that uses multiple LPS, isolation, OCXO USB output cards, battery supplies to run internal SATA drives e.t.c e.t.c All these things improved the sound and I heard them being implemented step by step. But ... | |
| ATC SCM19 V2 Recommendations. 535 pounds for a 2.5m pair. | |
| ATC SCM19 V2 Recommendations. @tony1954 | |
| ATC SCM19 V2 Recommendations. @tony1954 The cables are sold direct from the UK by ABCaudio dot biz Contact them first to make sure they are currently shipping, as Colin’s business partner who manufactures and distributes the cables did recently have a health scare. | |
| ATC SCM19 V2 Recommendations. Before you change your amp, streamer or DAC e.t.c the limiting factor here, IMO, is the speaker cables and stands. The Tellurium Black are good, I have owned them, but the Ultra Black II will open up the sound of this system a lot compared to the ... | |
| Solidsteel Racks Putting aside the component racks, the Solidsteel SS-6 speaker stands look really good. The industry has been crying out for a quality set of monitor stands at an affordable price, for decades. The normal stands you get around $200-300 are just r... | |
| The best plug in filter ever! @ozzy I have come across the exact same phenomena using these parallel plug in tweaks over the years, some of them can make the system louder, such that to do a fair A-B test you would have to volume level match. I can only guess at an explanatio... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers I can guarantee I know more about Ethernet and the related protocols than you ever will. Are you sure about this statement? I am in IT and manage computer networks daily and configure, setup and install commercial grade network hardware for my... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers When I first got into high end audio in about 2002, the industry was just starting to move away from cd players to separate DACs and transports. The exact same troll skeptic screaming and ranting was going on then in the forums - but about SPDIF c... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @fredrik222 You have now said your piece multiple times - saying the same things over and over. Now go away. People like you feel a need to SPAM (yes its SPAMING) these conversations again and again with the same thing. We don't care or go into yo... |