audphile1
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| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects Agreed. Silver not a good combo. Nordost Tyr 2 XLRs sound great in my system and were awesome when I had Bricasti M3. I would recommend giving these cables a try. There are some available on USAM | |
| Cardas vs Cardas vs Shunyata interconnects @jmeyers is that the system with M21 DAC? | |
| Power Cables <$500 for Digital Sources Yes but as I mentioned the degree of improvement is similar. If I remember correctly you have Aurender N20 paired with MSB Discrete DAC. I would go up to Frey 2 or even Tyr 2 on a used market for the power cords. Heimdall 2 is very nice but Frey 2... | |
| Power Cables <$500 for Digital Sources @jfrmusic I realized I didn’t exactly answer your question… so…having the Nordost Heimdall 2 on dac with “cheap” cord on streamer is a bigger improvement than cheap on dac and nordost on streamer. | |
| 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... |