antigrunge2
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| Network optimization for serious streamers One simple but highly effective tweak: I use a PinkFaun Isolator directly into my InnuOS streamer and a second EMO Isolator ahead of the switch. While ai agree that avoiding EMI/RMI ingress is crucial, it is very hard to avoid, hence the double Is... | |
| Anyone buy one yet? Thoughts? This is called the Banana approach to product development: deliver green and let mature with the client | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had Auditorium23, gets you 90% of Shindo for a fraction of the price. Simply superb, particularly with high efficiency speakers and tubes | |
| Dedicated electrical line - UK Make sure you get quality sockets, e.g. MCRU, Furutech or JAndrews. I also suggest you use Akiko Audio dedicated fuses and grounding at the switchboard for further improvements. | |
| Does it make sense to "ignore low ball offers"? In any sale there is a zone of probable acceptance (ZOPA) outside of which nothing will happen. Not responding to a low ball offer outside of ZOPA actually signals ‘No, I am not desperate and there is no point discussing.And someone lowballing an ... | |
| Is usb reclocking necessary? @bg3584 While you are correct that the streamer is slaved to the Dac under asynchronous USB, the actual connection needs reclocking since USB as a two way port has a separate algorithm rather than embedding the clock signal in the data stream. H... | |
| Best USB cable upgrade for around $1000 Intona Isolator + Reference Cables. And keep the cables as short as you can. If your setup allows it, the Uptone USPCB can be quite effective, too. | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @verdantaudio It’d be interesting to have your views on external clocking. In my experience with Delta Sigma upsampling DACs, having an external high quality 10m reference makes a significant difference even when internal Dac’s clock is already ... | |
| Riddle me this.... In the analogue domain it‘d have to be mechanical and thereby more accident prone, I guess…Where polarity is messed up during recording, there‘ll be a change in degrees with in most cases one setting preferable. Since the advent of hi-res audio, p... | |
| Do I really Need a Digital to Digital Converter? There are two Isolators who make a big difference: Intona on USB with short (!) Intona cables on the link to the DAC and Pink Faun on the Ethernet cable from the router. There is a further way of improving the USB connection by adding a reclocker,... | |
| Please recommend decoupling footers for DAC Get Black Ravioli Big Pad ffooters. They are the best vibration sinks I have been able to find. Truly in a league of their own | |
| Riddle me this.... @dogberry It‘s precisely the initial pulse of the wave that defines phase, or for the purposes of this discussion more accurately polarity. Think of a wind instrument being blown rather than sucked ( in analogy to a speaker Diaphragm moving out ... | |
| Riddle me this.... @mahgister @lewm On this one I have to unfortunately disagree with you both. In my experience somewhere around half of all recordings are polarity inverted. While that means, that it doesn‘t matter which way you connect your speakers, the actual... | |
| Riddle me this.... Recordings are phase inverting about 50:50. The only thing that changes is that records that were out of phase now will be in phase and vice versa. That is why a switch to invert phase is highly desirable in a digital component. | |
| Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component? Thou shalt not buy speakers higher than thy ceiling |