antigrunge2
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| Footers- Break In? Such A Change. Same experience here with black ravioli footers. Methinks it‘s due to gradually improving the connection with the chassis of the component in question, thereby draining internal vibration. It does take a day or two… | |
| Innuos Phoenix USB Reclocker - Sounds Worse? The Phoenix should’t be switched off. It takes up to 48h for the Ocxo clock to settle. Have you tried to replace the fuse with something decent? Also: use a very short USB cable between Phoenix and dac, ideally 1ft. Finally, try lifting ground on ... | |
| Mad Scientists Audio Nano Tweaks yup, and the 6cm one just about fits… | |
| Mad Scientists Audio Nano Tweaks Very easy, you just need to apply a very thin coat | |
| Mad Scientists Audio Nano Tweaks I have the tube caps on my recifier tubes on my Wavac EC 300b with great results; notably less grain and sibilance. I have a nano donut ring on the torroidal in my InnuOS Zenith Mk3. Not too sure about that one; at least it does no harm. The best ... | |
| What is this piece called? Anular terminator? | |
| Is an isolation transformer better than a power conditioner? The cleaner the power the better the sound, hence start with a separate spur and cleaning up your fusebox.There are passive conditioners from Akiko, Acoustic Revive and Furutech which achieve great results without the side effects of active condit... | |
| Feet One-o-0ne They were added over time and resulted in improvements, As mentioned, I tried to optimise the setup for each scenario individually. | |
| Just got started on Qobuz. Can anyone recommend an album or song? Qobuz delivers phantastic sound well ahead of other providers: however the amount of effort it takes to clean up the ethernet/optical connection to its server is trial and error and really not documented. What‘s more: it is highly dependent on in... | |
| Just got started on Qobuz. Can anyone recommend an album or song? Miles Davis Kind of Blue Helge Lien Trio Revisited | |
| Higher amperage fuse for sound quality Are you sure it‘s the higher rating or might you actually have changed the direction of the fuse accidentslly. Fuse directionality is the result of the wire drawing process and on good systems quite audible | |
| Glare on Choral recordings, classical vocals Harshness as you describe is most likely due to jitter. Better clocking of all devices, be they ethernet switches, your cd player, server or Dac is the remedy of choice. if digitsl is properly sorted, mistracking on vinyl is more probable than har... | |
| Why Do You Post? Posting is about knowledge sharing. Unfortunately the world is full of Know-it-alls spoiling the experience. | |
| Looking for a new (preowned OK) line stage under $5K: suggestions? Not sure that colour coding the line stage is the way to go. Have you tried toeing in the speakers to where they cross just in front of your listening position? | |
| Galvanic isolation revisited. I use an EMO EN70HD |