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| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? @samureyex You have the matching BMC amp to go with the DAC? I remember when this brand dropped about 10 years ago and it was very well regarded, in both performance and price. But I have not seen basically any reviews since then. The DAC really ... | |
| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? Sometimes the anticipation and wait for the new gear ends up being more exciting and satisfying than the product itself. | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? The power inlet IEC quality, and the wiring from the power inlet to the board inside the component can effect the sound, let alone the power cable itself. That truly is the last foot of wiring in the 10 miles from substation to your system. | |
| Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive? For new audio toys I basically refresh the online shipment tracking page relentlessly. | |
| Ferrite cores on cables I have never tried a ferrite core that didn't sound better OFF the cable. Ferrite cores will strip away frequencies that are intended to be heard. Agreed. To my ears at least. | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers I just want to give an update on the Melco C100 ethernet cable, because what it does ties directly into network optimization. One end of the cable has a floated ground, so its ’asymmetric’. The idea is to not pass noise downstream, instead noise ... | |
| Nordost Power Cords - Versions and Combinations I while back in an interview with the Nordost founder he claimed a single Odin power cable feeding Blue Heaven on components will out perform an all Valhalla system, the wall power cable being so important. I don't know how true that is, never ha... | |
| Nordost Power Cords - Versions and Combinations I don’t understand why you guys are comparing the Brahma to the Heimdall2. Its not the same range and not a fair comparison. The Vishnu was the equivalent cable on that original product line. The Heimdall replaced the Vishnu. They both have 3 x 16... | |
| Nordost Power Cords - Versions and Combinations Also, and I have posted this on here before, I found the Nordost (Heimdall 2) to be very good, spectacular even (for my price range) on digital, such as DAC’s, streamers, sources. But when using the same cable on analog amplifiers and Pre-amp I wa... | |
| Nordost Power Cords - Versions and Combinations @vinci92 Over a decade ago I had 1 Brahma feeding a power distributor, and 4x Vishnu for each component. I now have 5x Heimdall v2 and find them much much better than the Vishnu loom, but there was a 5 year gap between these setups and my syste... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers I actually found the cheap iFi X was better than the Uptone JS-2 on the modem/router/wifi hardware. For streamers it was the opposite, the JS-2 was better. This surprised me because a linear power supply always tends to improve things. But I had ... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers There is a lot of ethernet filters out there but the Muon seems to have the best listener reports. I was thinking to get one of these to put just before my Lindemann streamer. I want to keep the router, wireless and switch in the other room, power... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @fastfreight hey nice find Fastfreight. I had not been on the JCAT site in a long time. The M12 Gold looks to be a real custom ground up design. This is what we want. The only other company I know who has built custom core switch hardware is Nordo... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers Then there is the Eno and Muon ethernet filters. These seem to be getting genuinely rave reviews, even from respected people like Hans Beekhuyzen. Its possible these noise filters are doing the same job as the optical modules, not letting that hig... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers I am not ready to pay big money for an audiophile switch. They seem to just be repurposed consumer switches in a fancy case with a linear power supply and sometimes clock upgrade. You could probably get the same grade of switch and add your own po... |