audphile1
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| Power Cables <$500 for Digital Sources @jfrmusic I would say the improvements on DAC and streamer are comparable. If you’re upgrading one power cord at a time I would start with the amp and work my way upstream. Similarly, if you’re doing only one power cord upgrade for digital I would... | |
| Solid State Power Amps Pass should pair well with Focal Sopra 3. The PS Audio should also be a good match based on what I read. You don’t want bright or forward sounding amps with sopras. | |
| Solid State Power Amps From your list I’m only familiar with X260.8. They drive my Wilson Sabrina without breaking a sweat. Preamp is Pass XP-22. I tried Audio Research Ref 6 tube preamp as well and the synergy was excellent. What speakers are you looking to drive with ... | |
| Aurender A200 vs N200 I agree with others - N200 in a long run is a better choice. With A200 when you get an external DAC you will end up having its DAC section unused but on and consuming power. That would potentially make the overall noise floor with the A200 higher ... | |
| Repeater/extenders are evil! @mglik congrats on the new Aurender streamer!!! I have good news and not so good news for you. Good news - Aurender caches your streamed music to a large SSD cache Not so good news - Because the Aurender caches the songs and or playlists onto i... | |
| Quandary @rvpiano amplifier is one of the most impactful components in the system and introducing a different amp is a major change. Your system is tuned to the sound you like with the benchmark in your system. That includes all of your cabling. New amp is... | |
| Ethernet cables @classicrockfan just so you know… In the case of copper cables, data is transmitted through electrical signals. The cable consists of twisted pairs of copper wires, with each pair carrying a different signal. These signals are encoded using a tec... | |
| Interconnect priority From my experience…it highly depends. Each interconnect has its own priorities. For example with Acoustic Zen Silver Ref II and Matrix Ref II, the more expensive Silver Ref II always worked best between source and preamp with Matrix Ref Ii feeding... | |
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| Ethernet cables But you absolutely cannot apply analog audio logic to digital anything. It’s important to understand how these things work well enough to focus on the things you can affect. Network switches, cables, regenerators, eh, if you don’t hear dropouts, ... | |
| Thumper’s Mother @uncledemp I think you’re overreacting just slightly. This is an internet forum and there are policies that everyone should be following. Those who don’t, their classified ads and forum comments get deleted by the moderators. People are people and... | |
| Thumper’s Mother hilde45 4,885 posts 06-15-2024 at 10:29am A vote up/vote down button would enable civil users to criticize those posts which cross the line indicated by the OP. Without such a feature, things can derail into bickering or finger-wagging. ... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati vs. Wilson Sasha V (and perhaps vs. Focal n3) Focal Aria are great speakers I use Aria 926 with the matching center for movies with Marantz AVR. In my main 2-ch setup I use Wilson Sabrina with Pass X260.8. Wilson Audio released new version of The Watt/Puppy that are more affordable than the... | |
| Help, my system seem to have slowly gotten " bright" I’m assuming you’re noticing brightness on the recordings you have played before and are familiar with. So the question is…did anything change in your room? Furniture updates or moving things around? Removing or changing area rug? Removed window ... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords By the way the Preffair power cable is back in the system and and I think it’s settling down. It’s more evenly balanced. My conclusion is it’s a fine power cord for the money. Is it as good as my Nordost Heimdall 2 or Frey 2? No. But it’s more tha... |