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| Clocking: again! @lordmelton, agreed, slight addendum: if connecting the server to the DAC via USB it actually matters to synchronise clocking between Etherregen and DAC. The server is addressed by the DAC‘s slaving its clock under the asynchronous protocol. Bett... | |
| Clocking: again! @discopants, it‘s not that your clock is cheap: with the right cable it‘s still better than the one built into the Etherregen! Clocking in digital is primordially important. | |
| AGD Audio Mk2 review @ddriveman, that is high praise, indeed! BTW we seem to have surprisingly similar systems philosophy: I have a Wavac EC300b (EAT or Takatsuki) drive Duevel Bella Luna point source omni-directional horns with Murata super tweeters. I haven‘t ha... | |
| AGD Audio Mk2 review Wow, That‘s qiete a bit of 300b armoury there and lends substantial weight to your view on the Audions. If I might ask: what about timbre and naturalness? It seems obvious that in terms of resolution, attack and decay the Class D amps have a lot t... | |
| dCS Bartok DAC - Interesting Video Review @melm good point: that’s why these fora are useful and honest contributions much appreciated | |
| dCS Bartok DAC - Interesting Video Review Two observations: throughout the review the Bartok was fed on SP/DIF, hardly the best interface available. Further, the softness in attack in my experience is typically a result of clocking issues between server and dac; this is why I2S and USB ar... | |
| Questions about Ethernet Cabling As John Swenson says, the power supply improvement moving to an LPS is small but audible,,weirdly dependent on the power cable.The better clock makes a significant difference, here again the quality of the BNC cable has a large impact. What puzzl... | |
| Questions about Ethernet Cabling @Mclinnguy, I can assure you that my Antelope Audiophile 10m clock has a major impact and lifts the Etherregen into a different ligue altogether. This is John Swenson making clear that a cheapo chinese Ocxo with lots of phase noise is unlikely to... | |
| Recommended USB Cables. @auxinput, I have the Oyaide cable. While good,it gets very substantially bettered by the Intona Reference USB cable from Germany. Very much more leading and trailing edge, bigger and deeper soundstage and more flow. | |
| Elrog 300b vs we300b I have been playing around with a whole range of driver tubes on my WAvac EC300B. There are audible differences that are of the same order of magnitude as output tubes. Specifically Jan Philips 7581a: very resolving and fast, yet slightly harsh in... | |
| Elrog 300b vs we300b My two go-to tubes on the Wavac EC300b are Takatsuki and EAT, the former for string quartetts and Clapton Unplugged, the latter for Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries and Highway to Hell. As mentioned elsewhere I use TUNGSOL KT66s as driver tubes with... | |
| Elrog 300b vs we300b The sleeper in performance terms is EAT: very solid construction, punchy bass, extended treble and deep soundstage once broken in (ca 200h) | |
| To extend Ethernet to remote location, are Powerline extenders or Mesh systems better? Mesh is superior, extenders pick up all sorts of ground level and RMI/EFI noise that you subsequently have a hard time getting rid off. | |
| AGD Audio Mk2 review Can you let us know what 300B amps you had as a reference? | |
| Ethernet Clocking While you are at it you might ask the same question to Chord, Mutec, Innuos and Antelope. Oh, I forgot: they are all out to scam us. Paranoia reigns supreme. |