audphile1
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| I'm at a digital loss or getting over UI mountain In my opinion, the UI and UX Roon offers are simply unbeatable. But to get the best sound quality from Roon you will most likely need either a solid, fanless roon core with a good streamer (Lumin seems to work well in this configuration) or the to... | |
| Cable upgrades James…I think you would really like a nice tube preamp between the dac 3 and the amp. The biggest change would be more organic sound, improved soundstage and layering, better tone. Then put a good balanced cable between the preamp and the amp and ... | |
| Cable upgrades @jimboman what is the source for the Benchmark DAC 3? I was running the DAC3 HGC with a Lumin U1 Mini and I don’t recall needing more top end sparkle. I’d be careful there as you can easily tip the scale with that dac. One other bit of info - I di... | |
| Weiss 204 to Bricasti M1 series? @jmlm I own Bricasti M3. It’s internal network renderer beats Mac Mini as a streamer. The Mac Mini is serving as a Roon core in my setup. It’s not bad in that capacity but as a streamer it’s just simply not good. Bricasti network renderer is going... | |
| *DAC @navyachts I tried Audience Forte F3 power cables on the Montis and there was a slight improvement. I didn’t bother buying better cables though as I’ve made up my mind on a speaker upgrade. I did like the Montis though, they were nice. Your 13A ar... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @mathiasmingus thanks for the follow up. Oh yeah the LinkUp cable is really nice. Give it some time to settle though. On Roon vs native streamer UI sound quality…in my experience with two dedicated streamers, Auralic Aries G1 and Lumin U1 Mini, I... | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables @nasaman I would either 1. stuff them in the closet or 2. run some non critical audio video crap with these cables or 3. tie the next few garbage bags with them or 4. dissect them to see what’s inside then tie the next few garbage bags wit... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @fredrik222 you will attract more bees with honey. | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @lalitk yes that’s exactly my point. Based on how you tackled it, with adding the switch as absolutely the last thing, we’re pretty much on the same page. | |
| Tube preamp match with Solid Stare amp Audio Research Ref5SE should be a decent pairing. But 10k input impedance is minimum and borderline. I think you may actually be better off upgrading to a very good solid state preamp in your case. | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @fastfreight agreed. Everything matters. Not sure what the Taiko switch is or what it is doing for $5,200 (technically it isn’t a switch with one in one out), but when we’re talking switches that the average schmucks will implement in their setup... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @fredrik222 ok | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables nasaman 452 posts 12-27-2023 at 12:56am So I have bought a few fake Odins pwr cords from AliExpress more than a year ago and had my fun with them in my system. Quick Q today is can I resell them? And what would I enter on the listing? TIA ... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ @fredrik222 there is no downloading into a buffer. Buffering will let you buffer some data to help manage the data stream to allow other processing to take place. Let’s say for example it will buffer 1.5min or even less of a 5min track. This allow... | |
| *DAC @navyachts I owned bluejeans XLRs and still own a set of RCAs. I also own and use Canare 4S11 speaker cables with my AVR and just for 💩s and giggles 🤭 tried them in my main rig. None of these cables belong in the system the caliber of yours. Her... |