audioman58
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| Weak Link in chain as I upgrade from mid-fi? Buy a good dedicated dac like the Denafrips terminator2 night and day better sound , even witha newer computer with SS drives, the source is where your system makes or breaks the audio signal your system has very low quality digital this upgr... | |
| Streamer Upgrade I personally don’t find a dedicated streamer necessary from my comparisons a little green computer with SS drive, and linear power supply sounds very clean ,a much bigger difference is your main power into the house ihad installed awg10 cop... | |
| Recommendations please! Hello Ato all,having owned a Audio store and knowing upgrades or modding very well ,many preamps miss the boat at the end the volume control is very important and using the little round silver alps pot is such a down grade ,it has plastic carbon... | |
| Ideal power cord lengths? The world record for snakes is over 20 feet 🦶, I owned a Audiostore for 10 years personally I use between 4 and 6 feet and cannot hear any difference what truly counts are the end connection points , here purity copper with gold,silver or rho... | |
| My Major System Upgrades in 2022 and Impact of Each Being in a multi state audio club ,I have found the MBL speakers to be much more resolved and lowest distortion vs box speakers ,even their 120, 126 stand mounts ,with subs for lowest possible bass is Outstanding and outboard dacs of high qualit... | |
| Pass Labs 150.8 and XP-20 versus PrimaLuna Dialogue Premier HP integrated The pass labs is much better sounding as well as engineering built , one of prima luna biggest weaknesses is its volume attenuator ,still using a Low price Alps volume pots which is a $20 item and cost a lot in detail ,especially low level., vs... | |
| What Digital to Digital Converter Do You Use? Why? Denafrips IHave been using along time great build quality, great value and their whole line up sounds very good ,I own the Aries2, pontus2 , Terminator 2 , the Terminator 2 makes everything sound great even streaming recordings Thst are not ... | |
| Sound quality of Roon Roon is very flexible if you truly want the best streaming experience ,and Taylor to your audio system liking. with a little lear7ng effort HQ player is by far the best out there and Roon was designed with this jus T look up the reviews, then on ... | |
| Advice on Improving a Wifi-Mesh -> Ethernet Setup? Your Ethernet cables make a noticeable improvement ,the one at Ethernet switch makesthe most difference , if you have a dac usb. Cable upgrade for sure,even powercords. | |
| Bowers and Wilkins, 801 D4 One fantastic speaker you have overlooked the MBL Loudspeakers they not only radiate evenly but their direct connection to the source allows parts of the recording lost in most other speakers I have 2 friends and my brother sold his 1 year old S... | |
| OK...here's another tweak that really works The Isotek has been doing this for years as a runn cd as well as a 5 minute system tuneup demagnitizer and I use it every 2-3 days and works well. | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. I owned a Audiostore for a number of years getting 50%+ off on many items allows systems going into the $6 digit pricing that being said I used to offer and have created system enhancers that do actually work quite well even in Highend systems su... | |
| Batteries in my Audioquest Colorado RCA interconnects These are 27A batteries, not aa these are much more powerful and a must use Duracell are best and make a difference . | |
| What Power Cords for Rel S510 Subs? As far as value ,the audio advisor pangea sig using Cardas top copper their awg9 is a monster , or even their sig mk2 awg 14 plenty of current handling for around $250and use very good holdover Copper connectors, not brass . | |
| Purifi v Gan amps? Gan transistors we’re invented many years ago , they are much more efficient and will be in.many more products. In the future ,they are very good I actually own a GAN charger for my phones and tablets ,over 3x faster , My point is ,I have seen s... |