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audioman58

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Audience Front Row?
The reserve has a little more detail but not as warm  natural sounding in my setup .  
What's the weakest link in my stereo set up? I live in a townhome, so limited on space.
Spotify in NG compressed files  buy a copy dedicated dac or much better dac streamer combo  buy a sub for your speakers ,a$600 Svs pro 1000 with a nice remote app   To adjust  ,cables, power chords for the money Pangea sig,MK2 Wireworld Equinox... 
Has anyone tried these SnugPlugs?
A high quality AC outlet grips much better , I bought the $200 Furutech  outlet very good and sonically better but take a full 200 hours to runin.  
«40% Of Audiophiles Are Dying And No One Is Doing Anything About It!»
I look at the nice equipment but don’t agree with 1/2 his decisions  synergy is far more important then the amount of $$ monies spent. i  have 40 years + in Audio as a Audiophile ,owned a Audio store for a decade  as well as many years in sales... 
12au7 tube?
Rays select 12AU7   https://apos.audio/collections/top-sellers/products/apos-ray-tube-12au7  
12au7 tube?
I  spent $450 for very close tolerance within 2% medical grade Telefunken with the red tips worth every penny and last for years. if you want a very good modern tube -12au7  at APIs audio  Rays select tubes  hand picked closely matched made to a... 
I Was A Skeptic Now I'm Not So Sure
There are Tubulus and Jcat both excellent  Ethernet, and USB cables .for under $1k usb,   
Balanced vs RCA preamps
My preamp has both, XLR   Lundahl balanced inputs transformers, since most Digital front ends are balanced ,then on the outputs RCA Because of Linear Tube Audio,originally Designed by David Berning with his unique Micro-Z-OTL  output stage ,which ... 
Streamer Recommendations
Innuos I especially in the Zen Zenith which I hav3 is ab bit warmer by nature having Mundorf capacitors in it and built in isolation throughout ,great interface  i no longer use Roon and the innuos interface sounds better  updates when available... 
A not sarcastic question for the power conditioner/upgraded power cord folks
Fr starters if possible a dedicated 20 amp line to start ,then a high quality gold or rhodium over Copper AC outlet  I have currently a Niagra AQ 3000, next a Niagra  5000 the quality of power cord very important from AC outlet , and the Storm se... 
Dumb question......why do you need a preamp?
A good separate preamp will 95% ofthe time sound muchbetter  most integrated amps have cheap little roundAlps volume attenuators which are not good and Rob detail ,you want a zr2R resistor ladder attenuator, then relay  for top quality.  
12au7 tube?
Brent Jesse has medical grade red or green tTelefunken that are very closed ,$450-$550 a pr I bought a pair great ,defined lots of air and neutral No mullard is close in detail ,warmer yes.  
New Innuos Pulse, need assistance.
The usb cable too will need 200+ hours to fully runin  whst coax cable where you using   
R2R next? Don't like ESS
What’s your budget ?   Denafrips  always has very good  sound build quality per $ Dollar spent.  
Chinese "Audiophile" Fuses
To be honest ,in the many tests on fuses yes they do work  For chili tuning is a solid choice why ,the higher the conductivity the lower the resistance or noise floor everything goes through the fuses Silver and copper 3x+  betterthen tinned bra...