antigrunge2
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| Network Switches You might consider adding an Uptone Etherregen behind the switch. It’s moat provides substantial reduction of both ground level and RFI/EMI noise. Use your best Ethernet cable between Etherregen or switch and streamer | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables Anticables | |
| Anyone tried fiber into EtherRegen SFP? I have now installed a Gustard N18 in front of the 10M reclocked Etherregen, using the SFP and going into the Innuos streamer via RJ45. I also just saw that LHY Audio now offers an in box conversion to fibre and reconversion to ethernet. Crazy as ... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? To all re-fuseniks: try the Swiss Digital Fusebox: you‘ll never use an aftermarkwt fuse again. | |
| What does the audio term 'air' mean? Assuming proper front ends, i.e. vinyl player and streamer, air is about frquency response and phase coherence. The latter is often considered secondary, hence multiple unit speakers with complex crossovers. In my experience air is best achieved f... | |
| SUT Interconnects Shindo and Kondo are known designers of SUTs. In particular Ken Shindo has done wonderful work in this area. The reason I recommended Auditorium23 is that Keith Aschenbrenner is a close associate of Ken Shindo and has substantially adapted and emu... | |
| Does anyone experience sound improvement from restarting power off and on of DAC? Seems spurious unless you flush cache in the process. Normally though cache sits in the streamer, not the Dac. And restarting the clock is generally deemed highly counterproductic because of destabilisation.Either way, if it works keep doing it. | |
| Pimping your router Typically Cisco and Drytek are mentioned as superior routers. More important than the router though tends to be the PSU | |
| USB Cable Recommendations Under $500 Intona Reference | |
| Stein Music Maestro Lacquer I did use it on the membrane of my bass drivers resulting in better impulse and reduced boominess. Too scared, though to try the tweeters | |
| Stein Music Maestro Lacquer @bowsandarrows I used it on the metal casing and outside of the connector, obviously not on the contacts (!). the result is best described as less stridency, additional clarity. | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole @livinon2wheels You‘d do all of us a favour in not nly not engaging with @soix who knows what he is tslking about but refrain from unqualified commentary altogether. Bits are bits? A bit short, that. Read up on distortion in DA conversion as a r... | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole @soix +1, emphatically so. And that‘s both on nonsense content and inappropriate language | |
| Ethernet cables A high quality cable is the Zoerax Cat8 on Aliexpress. Heavy gauge OCC copper and connectors similar to Telegartner. It is directional and really top quality. | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? @skinzy Any dac needs to emit its analogue signalat preamp output levels. Your experience matches my own. Obviously if you use a digital attenuator at minimum output levels you are throwing too many bits away. Using a high quality analogue atten... |