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| Pulled the trigger on a Moon 861! Hope it pairs well on my Focals Simaudio Moon electronics are clear and transparent. Pair them with very revealing speakers and a front end that’s not on the same level and you’re in a world of trouble. I would say this is one of the cases when you can build your system around ... | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? This thread has turned funny. One thing I love more than a good cable discussion is to go into members virtual systems page. Especially those stating cables don’t matter. It’s worth the click. Trust me. You see immediately why all cables sound the... | |
| TOSLINK Optical vs Coaxial for CD transport to DAC @gakman worth a try with money back policy. Also look into Audioquest and Audience. Moon Audio makes decent cables and I think they offer money back. Avoid blue jeans coax. While I like their interconnects, the coax is garbage. | |
| Wireworld Platinum Starlight® 10 Twinax and AQ Diamond @traubr you won’t regret upgrading to the latest “i” version. It’s a great DAC. I’m right there with you on being able to revert to ether a streamer in the Meitner or the N200. My approach is - do I miss the sound one of them offers to want to sw... | |
| Wireworld Platinum Starlight® 10 Twinax and AQ Diamond @traubr I tried the new Shunyata Alpha X USB cable. While very good and more detailed than the Audience FrontRow USB cable I have now and the Stealth USB I had for a brief period of time, I find Shunyata lean and cool sounding. It’s not as musical... | |
| Help Needed - Popping sound when powering on a new setup! You got it! Glad it was as easy as this | |
| TOSLINK Optical vs Coaxial for CD transport to DAC Yes coax is generally better than toslink. What is your budget for a new cable? | |
| Wireworld Platinum Starlight® 10 Twinax and AQ Diamond Thx! Listening last night when the house was quiet confirmed that I love the sound. | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? Dark is how the AQ Hurricane sounded in my system as well. I had these on the amp, preamp and power conditioner. @jasonbourne71 is correct about the AQ cables made in China. But I really doubt the fakes are identical to the original. The myth abo... | |
| Wireworld Platinum Starlight® 10 Twinax and AQ Diamond Thanks @fthompson251 ! I’ve spent a few hours listening today with the Audience Ethernet cable and I think I have a winner even without comparing to anything else. I don’t know what WW can do better and AQ should be good but I have this synergy n... | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? I realized my post didn’t really answer your question. AQ is a major brand. They sell a lot of cables and you see the quantities on a used a used market proportional to new sales over time plus people just rotate cables. Sprinkle that with fakes. | |
| Why so many AQ Hurricane PC's for sale? Careful buying used AQ especiially the storm and higher lines. Lots of fakes. TMR usually has preowned hurricanes. I’ve bought a few from them. I am not a fan of AQ Thunder, Tornado and Hurricane they just don’t sound right to me but I know @ghd... | |
| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? @daveyf love your satire | |
| Shunyata interconnect cables experience Cool. Another 30 hrs and they should develop their character. But even fully broken in, my money’s on Tyr 2. But keep us posted. | |
| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? Entertaining discussion. I would love to hear this latest dCS front end especially in my system at home. But that’s unlikely to happen. dCS is one of the polarizing brands that attract a lot of haters similar to the crowd hating on Wilson Audio, ... |