ajnackman
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| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed Don't have a cable box - I stream everything from my TV connected via ethernet. The hum eliminator definitely helped in my case. | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed So I purchased an ART DTI dual transformer isolator to try out and installed it between my AVR and my integrated amp - the reduction in the hum is impressive. If you stand right next to the speakers you can still hear it - and I can hear some of m... | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed I've tried it both using a common ground location and keeping the streamer ungrounded without any audible difference or behavior to the hum. The turntable a phonopre require grounding together or I get noise issues. | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed In my case, my phono pre and my streamer/dac when plugged into my preamp, seem to amplify noise coming from my PC. If both of those units are disconnected from my integrated - PC is dead silent through my AVR and TV. It sounds like I should just t... | |
| Audible High Pitched Hum... Advice Needed What about a product like this? This is just going to add up as it will double my interconnects. I wonder if introducing this between the XMC-1 and my I-5 will solve the issue. I suppose I can always start with 1 and see how it goes. https://w... | |
| Opinions on Nuprime vs D-sonic vs Red Dragon vs Class D Audio @evo_no_revo I'll be selling my black S500 in August if you are interested.No word on the company, last I heard they were working on a new generation but that was some time ago. Amp is built like a tank. | |
| your opinion on buying an older Simaudio i-5 integrated An update - I got a great price for the original production run with the old Celeste badge. The unit was sent to the factory for service and upgrades in 2003. I’m currently listening with another pair of speakers where I’m quarantining that are fr... | |
| Uptone EtherRegen This could be a helpful read for anyone looking for some clarifications/explanations about the etherregen device.My understanding is that this is the "white paper" that the engineer/designer has published.https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0660/612... | |
| Uptone EtherRegen In this case there is no risk to try it out! I've found the etherregen to make a very noticeable improvement to my digital front end. That reviewer never had an open mind about the product, and has actually built a brand for himself shooting simil... | |
| Uptone EtherRegen I’m able to notice a difference with just about any track. The background "noise" just drops off the map, giving better definition and immediacy to the music. That’s the best way I can describe it.Curious what your streaming set-up is. I’ve been a... | |
| Uptone EtherRegen I was in the January batch. Evaluating over the weekend, I can confidently say that for my system, the etherregen is a very very positive upgrade. For my digital front-end, I only stream music from tidal. My previous network audio path connected... | |
| Help me put together a $1000 (give or take) headphone rig -- new or used I've never used the headphone output in my node 2i unit, however I would think that the volume control is in the digital domain, which at any level less than about 75% bit-strips information away. I'm sure it would work but the money would be well... | |
| Help me put together a $1000 (give or take) headphone rig -- new or used +1 for the valhalla 2/bluesound combo. The DAC in the bluesound is actually quite nice, especially given the price. It uses a burr brown chip if you are at all familiar with those. I would think for moderately priced headphones it would work well.... | |
| Power cord recommendation for a dac? Have you had a chance to audition all of the options above? I've been very happy with triode labs myself, although I couldn't quite justify the price of the digital american when I also had to purchase two 7+ cables for other components, so I went... | |
| Bluesound node 2i question I have the node 2i, and the sound is much better hardwired with an ethernet cable than using wifi. Its an easy test to do. |