astewart8944
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| Innuos Statement Review David, I will attempt to listen to the Statement using Roon as you describe and report back my impressions. I anticipate being able to do so by Monday. -RegardsAl | |
| Innuos Statement Review David, these are great questions. First, I have only run the Statement as a Roon Core and not a Roon endpoint. When I compared the Statement to the DX3 I set them both to be Roon Cores, which allowed me to quickly toggle between them. I would desc... | |
| Innuos Statement Review Today I experimented with the Statement by plugging it into my Shunyata Denali power conditioner to see what effects, if any, the power conditioner had on the Statement's SQ. The Statement's sound stage narrowed and it lost significant depth. The ... | |
| MSB select II vs all dacs ? Thank you., Mike. Very helpful.Al | |
| MSB select II vs all dacs ? @mikelavigne --MIke, I thought I saw that you had an Aqua Formula xHD DAC at one point in your system. Am I remembering that correctly? And if so, how did you think it held up in your system? | |
| Innuos Statement Review @david_ten Excellent point. I have learned over time in this hobby to not become too wed to a particular pathway on the digital side. When Jeff Rowland says its Aeris DAC works best via the SPDIF input, I tested that--and it was true. When I had a... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @audiotroy I'm not confident that your 99.9% customer base number is accurate, but I'm fairly certain that most consumers can live with and/or prefer USB/ethernet--not necessarily because they have done A/B comparisons between the different pathwa... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @david_ten Thank you for your kind words.RegardsAl | |
| Innuos Statement Review Earlier this evening I placed Stillpoints Ultra SS feet underneath the Statement. They provided increased clarity/detail. Underneath the Statement, the Ultra SS feet work much better than the Ultra 5s. (This was also true under the Antipodes DX3).... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @hgeifman Your points are excellent ones. I do think there is a movement to make ethernet the "preferred" connection method. Yes, it appears that more newer servers and DACs are implementing an ethernet connection. I agree the audio industry makes... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @mmeeks100 and @lalitk I actually think you are both right. Presently many current high end component manufacturers seem to have coalesced around the following ideas: (1) USB and/or ethernet connections are the future and will be supported; and (2... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @lalitk I understand your frustration on the input options. I do think @audiotroy' s points are valid one's. BTW, the only option out of an Antipodes DX3 is USB. And the only two options out of the Antipodes CX+EX combo are USB and ethernet. So, f... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @ricred1 Hi Richard, I can only compare what I own in my system, so that is what I did. If I owned the Antipodes CX+EX combo, I would have compared that combo to the Innuos Statement. Frankly, I wasn't thrilled that the DX3 was the Antipodes "flag... | |
| Innuos Statement Review @audiotroy I tried putting Stillpoints Ultra 5s under the Statement at the 300 hour mark; they degraded the Statement's SQ IMO. I will probably try the Stillpoint Ultra SS feet under the Statement (I have extra) to see if they yield the same resul... | |
| Innuos Statement Review Here is my assessment of the Innuos Statement after 400 hours of burn-in compared to the Antipodes DX3. Everything I noted in my initial post remains accurate except for the following: (1) I made this comparison using the same make and model and l... |