antigrunge2
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| Digital Upgrade Recommendations As a first step buy an Intona Isolator and cable for your USB connection. After that improve the power supply to the Nucleus or buy a better server such as Auralic, Aurender, InnuOs or Lumin | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? @soix, refreshing to find someone actually using his ears on this rigorist dogmatist thread | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? …here we go again… | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? Jawn! I listen and know what I hear. There are numerous views on other fora and they seem to HEAR what I hear. Also: in a USB connection between streamer and dac the server’s clock gets slaved to the dac’s clock and thereby becomes irrelevant. | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? Yes you do. I have a Chinese Ocxo Switch in front of an Etherregen and removing either results in immediate deterioration of sound quality. Actually, accurate clocking is one of the great misunderstood issues in digital music. It’s the accuracy of... | |
| Clocking: again! @fastfreight, sorry, can‘t help there. However, the above switch lifts up the Etherregen performance on its own clock considerably and may be a good first step. | |
| Clocking: again! This is the reference to the Chinese Ocxo switch, it is now fully broken in after 4 days and the effect on the Etherregen is remarkable: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003309411568.html | |
| Clocking: again! In addition to supporting the Etherregen with LPSU and masterclock I have now introduced an Ocxo clocked swith with LPS from China. The further tightening and blackening of the sound is very worthwhile for the $300 spent. This is purely to improve... | |
| Clocking: again! @fastfreight, to my knowledge the Tambaqui has neiter word-nor master clock inputs. So all you can do is reclock the Etherregen, which with a good clock should nevertheless prove worthwhile doing | |
| Clocking: again! @doufthebiker, Afterdark in HongKong has a whole range of performance packages including cables, other good clocks (albeit much more expensive are Cybershaft from Japan, Antelope Audio and Mutec. I concur with @lordmelton on at least reclocking t... | |
| 432 EVO Audiotroy has had my post removed: I just pointed out that 432 EVO is virtually unknown over here in Europe and that digitally converting recordings made at 440Hz tuning doesn’t seem particularly audiophile. Go figure… | |
| Clocking: again! @djones51 Get some help, mate | |
| 432 EVO Audiotroy’s touting his product as the European champion is purely based on wishful thinking: it’s virtually unheard of over here (I know both the UK and German markets well) whereas Innuos is an acknowledged market leader here. The whole idea of ... | |
| Clocking: again! I am afraid a TXCO clock, possibly with a generic BNC cable in most cases will be inferior to the internal clock of your DAC resulting in a very pointy and ultimately unpleasant sound. As I said in my original post superior cables are needed if yo... | |
| Clocking: again! What you get from the switch is foremost a lowering of the noise floor with resultant increase in blackness and impulse. In addition there seems to be less spurious noise affecting the DACs conversion and analogue stage, leading to higher resoluti... |