audphile1
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| Audioquest or Nordost for speaker cable In that system with AQ power cables and Aria 936, go with Nordost. I own Focal Aira 926 and they are relatively warm sounding speakers. You will fatten it up too much with AQ speaker cables | |
| Is there anything other than a Benchmark DAC? I went from DAC 3 HGC to Bricasti M3. Didn’t miss the Benchmark at all. | |
| Leaving tube amps on. Turning amps on and off won’t hurt them due to soft/slow startup cycle. Calculate the cost of tubes per year makes very little sense. | |
| Audioquest or Nordost for speaker cable 100% system, room and preference dependent. Until we see what the system consists of, any recommendation is a shot in a dark. | |
| What did a good 10 MHz clock do for your Gustard R26? Cool. You have to go with whatever suits your preference and perception of best sound. It took me a while to begin appreciating the PS Audio DAC after the somewhat more forward and resolving but cooler sounding Bricasti M3 and now I just love the ... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords One other thing for your evaluation…best listening experience is usually after 11pm when you have lowest noise on the lines (even with dedicated circuit it still appears to be the case) and the house is quiet. Spend some quality time listening and... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords That’s good too. Regen. Clean power. | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords Choked by the surge protection circuit in a cheap strip like that. Fine for routers or cable box. Not great for audio components in a system of that caliber. Something like a passive power conditioner that’s not restrictive would work great. Shuny... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords Dude you have your McIntosh components plugged into a surge protector? It doesn’t matter how many amps they draw. That surge protector is your bottleneck. Take it out. You’re choking your system. Plug the amp and pre at least for the duration of... | |
| Should I upgrade my preamp? I think your speakers and phono cartridge are fine. The weakest link in my opinion is your cd player. The old ARC preamp has more potential and if you add a DAC and a good transport you can improve the performance of your system tremendously. In ... | |
| What did a good 10 MHz clock do for your Gustard R26? Awesome! Wait till you try a good power cable on this dac. | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords Well hold on Mike. I think I am seeing either a power strip or a power conditioner or both. Let’s not rush to conclusions that the amp and preamp are getting good power for their property designed power supplies until the OP confirms. A bad power ... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords Is the amplifier and preamplifier plugged into the wall or is that a power strip / power conditioner behind the rack? | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords @rodman99999 waste of time. His neighbors said there’s no difference. | |
| What did a good 10 MHz clock do for your Gustard R26? Interesting. Take few days to get used to the sound and run it 24/7 to let the cable settle. The PS Audio DAC won’t scream look at me I’m here and attract attention to itself. But it plays music in a very satisfying way. Nothing stands out. It ta... |