audphile1
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| Lend me your ears... I owned Benchmark DAC 3 HGC driven by a Lumin U1 Mini. It was pretty good but I upgraded to Bricasti M3 with a built in Network player and after extensive comparison between the Bricasti Network player and the Lumin U1 Mini I ended up preferring t... | |
| WireWorld Chroma ethernet cable Spend a little more and try Purist Audio Design Ethernet cable. Excellent cable. Better than Supra CAT8. http://www.puristaudiodesign.com/Data/products/misc/cat7.html | |
| Rhodium plated audio grade wall socket Get Furutech GTX-D Rhodium NCF outlet. Pure copper base material. Big improvement in noise floor, resolution, tone and soundstage. | |
| Power cords known to produce good bass AudioQuest Hurricane. | |
| An interesting experience with power cable. @samureyex don’t draw any conclusions about power cords based on this cable you’re testing now. Looking at their fake Furutech FI-50 NCF looking plugs I wouldn’t trust their claim it’s OCC copper. It also does not look like an 8 awg cord..,hard to... | |
| An interesting experience with power cable. Also, a cheap way to upgrade a stock power cable if you don’t want to spend $500 is to swap the AC and IEC connectors. A good set of plugs will produce a nice improvement noticeable in reduction of noise floor, opening up soundstage, etc. | |
| An interesting experience with power cable. Just a heads up, a quick A/B test is never a good indication. Have the cable on the component for 24hrs drawing current before you sit down for critical listening. Let it all settle. This is if the cable is broken in. If it’s brand new, allow abou... | |
| Considering moving to separates with a tube preamp-appreciate recommendations Going with separates will require adding streamer and dac. I would say start there by adding a dedicated dac and streamer or a streaming dac and continue using your H390 as integrated only. This should be an improvement over the included H390 buil... | |
| Choosing new cables @bobheinatz if you are planning to buy new, I would highly recommend contacting The Cable Company and borrowing a full cable loom from them. The fees you pay for the loaner cables apply to your purchase if you decide to buy them down the road. | |
| Will increasing speaker cable AWG make a difference in sound quality? When you go up the AQ (and some other manufacturers) cable line you don’t only get bigger gauge wire. You get better quality materials and better connectors. You have to figure all this into equation. And connectors do make a difference. All being... | |
| More Bass @navyachts picture speaks a thousand words. is there a way you can add a virtual system with pictures of room and current set up? That will help with proper recommendations with your current and future setup. | |
| Primaluna. Evo 400 - bass issues @lanx0003 brings up an excellent point…the Mackie MR5 are powered speakers that also have some sort of a LF adjustment. So your comparison is not exactly apples to apples if you compare to passive speakers. The Mackies may be “tuned” or EQd to emp... | |
| More Bass The crossover components as well as drivers themselves need at least 200hrs of signal running thru them to open up and stabilize. Way too early for a judgement call. | |
| What is your experience with amp power? I use Pass XA30.8 to drive my 87db sensitive 4ohm Wilson Sabrinas. Room is not too large and 90% of the time the amp never leave class A (30 watts per channel). Match the amplifier power to your speakers as well as your room, it’s not so much th... | |
| Hana ML teamed with Pro-Ject 1Xpression carbon classic and Rega Aria Hana ML is an excellent cartridge. Bass deepens a bit after about 50-60 hours but even out of the box it sounds great! Enjoy! |