audphile1
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| Power Cord for Accuphase Amplifier @r27… I’m old. I can’t hear what you’re saying. Sorry but I’m weakened by the nature of living creature! | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? Blue jeans are decent cables (I keep a set of RCAs as a spare) but you can improve upon them. So my recommendation is…You have to start from the amp/speakers and work your way upstream. I would tackle the speaker cables first. For the horns I’d ... | |
| ARC Ref 6 plexiglass cover I think you should experiment and let us know if you hear any difference in sound. Narrow side up vs narrow side down. just kidding. | |
| Power Regenerator or Conditioner for Digital Sources Yep don’t fix problems that don’t exist. Nothing good ever comes from it. | |
| Power Regenerator or Conditioner for Digital Sources Right now my system sounds wonderfully refined and musical. So after 5 months of buying , burning in and evaluating equipment I’m just going to listen to music That’s a great place to be!!! | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? OP, What power cord is currently on the PS Audio DAC? What interconnects and speaker cables are you using? The PS Audio DAC is transparent and resolving. Using high quality cables should improve the sound. | |
| Power Regenerator or Conditioner for Digital Sources OP, I had the Puritan PSM 156 in my system long enough to determine it actually degraded the sound. I used it for DAC and preamp only. I tried 3 different power cords with it, Classic, Ultimate and AQ Hurricane. It seems to impart this strange ... | |
| Boulder 866 / Rotel Michi M8 How big is the listening room? How loud do you listen (measured with SPL meter or smartphone app)? This will play into how much power you need. I’d also call Boulder and get their take on the 866 and 802D3 pairing. If it all checks out and I ha... | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? The Node will be a nice improvement over laptop. Just use a good usb or coax. | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? Good! The hustle paid off and now you know. I will also tell you, +1 @soix Streamer will improve things even further. I used mac mini for a while and didn’t believe a streamer can make this much difference but alas 4 streamers later I’m getting... | |
| Audience SX2/Front Row Cables...has anyone tried or heard much of this new reference line? Thanks duramax747 for the compliments and the info! The FrontRow replaced AU24SX. I was kind of disappointed at first. Sound was dull and lacked air. Mids were congested too. They are coming around though. No changes in the bass which is one area... | |
| Warm relaxed digital coax Is there a reason why you can’t use USB with the dac? Because if you can, there’s a really nice Audience AU24SE+ USB cable on USAM right now. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650117580-audience-au24-se-dual-wire-usb-one-meter/ | |
| Ethernet cable for music streaming I second @ghdprentice nothing will have as big of an impact as a streamer or a dac upgrade or both. All the tweaks like switches, converters, LPS, filters…that’s pretty much just lipstick on a pig. Waste of time, money and space. | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? What are you using as a streamer? Is it just the network card in the dac? If that’s the case it’s not the best. I had a pretty good analog setup - MoFi Ultradeck with Hana ML into Sutherland 20/20 with LPS and it was nice but it didn’t match up t... | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? I have the direct stream dac and it sounds exactly the opposite of how you described it. I’m puzzled. But…another dac to consider that’s warm and has body is Bryston BDA-3. Out of curiosity what interconnects and power cables have you tried with t... |