antigrunge2
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| Intona filter shortest USB connection @gdnrbob, I respectfully disagree: addressing ethernet based noise incursions and using a galvanic isolator on USB will do nothing but improve sound quality. As you know, InnuOS sells a separate Phoenix Ethernet for this purpose: why you‘d hav... | |
| Things I don‘t know @mike_in_nc Did you just use an M3 or a ref10? makes a big difference | |
| Intona filter shortest USB connection Get a 30cm Intona Reference cable: you won‘t find better, actually better, get 2 of those | |
| Router for Audio Streaming Here is a simple tweak: get some Black Ravioli footers under your router and a VPI brick on top. Use a $100 Chinese LPS. If you feel rich, get an Acoustic Revive Ethernet filter on top. | |
| Router for Audio Streaming In remote areas where there aren‘t too many networks competing for bandwidth wireless can work very well without some of the vagaries of wired connections. In an urban setting, interference however tends to be too high.,What definitely doesn‘t wor... | |
| Things I don‘t know @erik-squires that is one line of arguments, indeed. However Innuos spends enormous efforts on reclocking both USB and Ethernet connections and best I know DCM offers full external clock support for all its units. There is also a vibrant market f... | |
| Things I don‘t know &spatialking, my point on polarity was that it is determinant of sound quality but being ignored by top equipment designers 10mhz is the standard frequenzy for masterclocks controlling several components in the same system, typically by a 50... | |
| Router for Audio Streaming @bemused +1 | |
| What is Your End Game System? In a rapidly evolving technology environment there is no discernible end game: rapid advances in streamer and dac design, class d amplifiers and room correction, who knows what the state of the art will be in 3 years‘ time? | |
| Router for Audio Streaming May I politely suggest you try it before opining? Your comment is otherwise useless | |
| Chord Dave and lInear power supply @lalitk Power supplies are a black art not easily mastered by digital engineers. | |
| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? @mrdecibel agreed, the discussion now seems to focus on the likelihood of impedance mismatchesbetween DAC and power amp, methinks. In attenuation mode, all a pre does is add distortion if impedances are properly matched. We are finally getting s... | |
| Chord Dave and lInear power supply I had a similar experience when switching from a Voltikus feeding my Antelope Zodiac platinum + 10M clock to a Sean Jacobs Dc3/4 linear PSU driving both the modified clock, the Etherregen and the DAC. The increase in separation, decay and attack a... | |
| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? @holmz my Dac is an Antelope Zodiac Platinum with a relay based attenuator and an output impedance of 56 Ohms unbalanced into my Wavac EC 300b power amplifier with an input impedance of 100kOhms. Hard to see where the problem might be with a 200... | |
| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? @atmasphere, many thanks for answering, a really helpful contribution. Am I right in saying that most digital devices are designed to have low output impedance? |