audphile1
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| RCA interconnect recommendation @smaarch1 glad to hear you like the Zens! I’ve used many different interconnects throughout the years after selling the AZ matrix II and silver II years ago and recently came back to Acoustic Zen once again. They just let the music flow. | |
| The Proverbial "best amp" for Focal Sopra No. 1 MA8900 is a solid choice. Add Pass Labs Int-250 to the list as well. Used it may be within your budget. | |
| Lumin U1 Mini - how to set up Network *without* Ethernet cables? I use eero mesh and run Supra Cat8 from eero to my Lumin U1 Mini. Excellent sound. @ozzy62 Agreed…Lumin app is unusable on phone. Overall by far not the best UI around. But if you use Tidal as your streaming service lumin has this nifty feat... | |
| Position of speaker cables and irregular behavior Let me ask… how far are your speakers apart center to center? what is your distance to each speaker? how close to each other can you position your speakers? I would pull them together like 5.5-6ft apart center to center than listen from about 6... | |
| New pre-amp purchase advice A used Rogue RP-1. Fits the budget and has a surprisingly good phono stage. I used it with Hana EL with great results. | |
| To Roon or not I cancelled Roon over a year ago because the Auralic Aries G1 sounded better w/Lightning DS than with Roon. I now have Lumin U1 Mini and decided to give Roon another shot and I must say this time around it’s a keeper! Sound quality is great, awes... | |
| Qobuz stops playing via Roon. Sounds like your network is a problem here. Do the speed test. Make sure your laptop running Core is hardwired to your router. Roon is pretty solid from network standpoint and should work fine. I run mine on mac mini with Lumin U1 Mini as end poin... | |
| Qobuz stops playing via Roon. I was wondering if you enable your iPad as a roon end point it can be both the remote and end point (player). Try it that way. Then try Lumin native app and see if it also cuts out. May be you have a faulty Ethernet cable connected to Lumin? I wou... | |
| Qobuz stops playing via Roon. Running on what is what I was looking for mostly. can you enable another device as end point and try to stream to it and see if same issues persist? This could be your ipad or phone. if that works then there's something with your device settings... | |
| Qobuz stops playing via Roon. Where is your Roon Core? | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation With Rogue gear(ST100 and RP1 or RP5) I had excellent results using Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference 2 and Absolute Copper. With the integrated I’d probably go with AZ Silver Reference MkII between the phono and Chronus and Matrix MkII for the digit... | |
| Benchmark DAC3 vs. Denafrips Pontus II Looking for thoughts from someone who compared that denafrips to any of the DACs mentioned above. Not looking for change/improvement. Please share what you heard. | |
| < $400 USB Cable Contenders Late 2021 Bump it up a bit and pick up a used Audience AU24SE+. You won’t regret it. | |
| New speaker cables recommendations sought You can pick up a used set of Audience AU24 or AU24SE. When I had B&W N803 I had good results with AZ Hologram, Satori, Audience AU24 and Purist Aqueous. They were all bi-wire cables. If you’re using regular runs make sure to connect the speak... | |
| KT88 in Rogue ST-100 amplifier Gold Lion - more refined and relaxed presentation than the stock JJs. More open, better soundstage. Brimar 12AU7 (combined with GL 12ax7) - more extentended, more texture in the bass. Smooth and sweet up top. RCA Cleartop 12au7 (combined with GL 1... |