allanblissett
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| Where do you stop? So you got silver speaker cables and interconnects, could you share with us the brands ? I am on the same silver experiment, I went with all Chinese for affordability incase it doesn't work out, but so far so good. Silver tends to give a tight... | |
| Boxes I keep every box my equipment comes in, even the small stuff like cables. Especially since I tend to change stuff frequently. | |
| Power conditioner wire gauge? Serious issue I recently upgraded my dedicated 20 amp line from my panel to the outlet, to 12 gauge from 14. Also changed the outlet from a hospital grade to a PS Audio. It was a good improvement, but now I still have another 10 ' of 14 gauge power cord ru... | |
| The 300B World AudioAsylum.com has a good SET forum and tube diy. Great info can be had over there. I just changed out my EH Gold after 14 years, for some Gold Lions, nice improvement. | |
| McIntosh preamps I am using a C47 with my 7270, and it's a great combination. I am thinking of getting a C49 mainly for the DAC upgrade, but now I also like the new MDA200, but haven't heard anything about how it would be as a preamp. | |
| Do I need 10 gauge power cord if I have 10 gauge from panel? If the tiny weeny wire in the fuse can handle 10amps, why can't a 14 gauge cable. | |
| McIntosh preamps Any Mac preamp will work nicely, it just depends on how much you want to spend and if you want tube or solid state. You may want to ask at the McIntosh forum at Audiokarma.org | |
| I have a conundrum with internet radio Why don't you try to narrow down the issue by hooking up the Cocktail directly into the Terminator with optical cable, and see if it works. That would tell you if it's the Gaia or the I2s. | |
| HiRes lossless FLAC Radio streams Here are my favorites, Jazz Groove KSDS 88.3 San Diego KCSM Jazz 91 All Jazz streaming on my ifi zen hires bluetooth, using my android tablet with Sony LDAC codec 24/96 to my McIntosh c47 dac. Sounds amazing, don't knock it till you try it. | |
| What is a McIntosh C52 worth? I would say about $4500.00 | |
| Streamers and their Fuses Brandon I am neither a fuse believer or a denier, I have upgraded my fuses to some hi-fi tuning for the hell of it. I would never spend $200 on any fuse, same goes for power cables. There has to be a limit to our madness, especially looking at ... | |
| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper You should go all solid core, you would get better improvement than optimizing your network. | |
| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper Solid core speaker cables definitely sound better than stranded. Tara Labs and Audioquest both make excellent solid core cables. Audioquest Rocket 88 is one of my favorites. | |
| Using streaming as a main source ---DSD, FLAC, MQA Streamers and DACS Here's my solution, at least until all these streamers and dacs with thier constant updates get to the final update. A preamp with a nice built-in dac that's upgradable, like a mcintosh, and a lowly ifi zen bluetooth hires receiver running Sony... | |
| For SACD fans only I went from a OPPO 105 years ago, to one of the very last 205 produced, sold it for more than double the price, bought a Marantz 30n, loved it for awhile, but the disc part wasn't getting much use as I started to stream more. So I sold it and bo... |