baylinor

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What exactly is critical listening? Who does it?
@emergingsoul  Thanks for your nice words. I got the Loki more out of curiosity than need. When hooked to my various digital sources, I quickly realized I hardly ever felt the need to use it as each has reached a quality of sound to my ears that ... 
What exactly is critical listening? Who does it?
Critical listening is done in order to attempt to get the sound of your system to sound as good as possible to your ears. Once you're done with the room soundproofing and acoustic treatments, then come the equipment upgrades and only then you fina... 
Another fun read. Enjoy
That's awesome lol  
Denafrips Pontus 15th, Pass Labs INT-60, and Wilson Sabrinas
Good advice from ghdprentice. Cables is a way to fine tune the sound. No need to mess with it until you find out what the equipment sounds like in your setting. Only then will you know what sort of fine tuning you need.   
HiFi Tuning Fuse Replacement Yamaha RN2000a
Since there doesn't seem to be a fuse tray on the outside, the only option is to take the top off the unit and look behind the iec plug and look for a fuse. I personally only switch fuses when they are accessible from the outside.   
Any love for Cullen Cables?
I own a few Cullen PCs. Their built is robust and excellent. I have very clean independent power to the house of stereo to start with, so PCs in my system don't have nearly the same impact as interconnects, digital cables or speaker cables. I did ... 
How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there.
LMAO!  There are no guarantees in this world, except death, taxes and the audiophile's endless need to.upgrade.  
How close are you to being to your endgame? My system outline and I'm almost there.
Good for you. My system is always getting there, I think. However my house of stereo setup takes it to another level. If you check it out, you can see I also run the Innuos ZENith mk3. With my setup, the USB connection is a huge step down from run... 
Another Day, Another Upgrade.
Going from a 2.5 k transport to one at 17.5 k would likely be a nice upgrade 🤑  
Will a record weight harm the motor in a direct drive turntable?
Heavy center weight and outer ring is my ritual. I never do without on my VPI Classic. I remember emailing someone at pro-ject about using a heavy center weight on their debut TT and he said NO, not can do, motor won't handle it. Always reference ... 
which power cable and USB cable for my Innous Zenith Mk3?
@drlou77  Gustard U18 DDC Audiolund I2s xtrem cu. More equipnent info can be seen in my house of stereo system. My entire streaming system is pretty complex and not cheap. But incredibly worth it.    
which power cable and USB cable for my Innous Zenith Mk3?
My Innuos zenith mk3 uses a USB cable over $700. Connecting it directly to the dac was not the answer. Once I got a DDC, connected the USB to it and came out of it with I2s to dac, a veil was lifted. The sound clarity was so much better, it stunne... 
Advice on a good Digital Coax Cable to run between my Transport and DAC?
I concurr with facten, my Jay's is connected to the dac with a Snake River Boomslang AES cable with better results than even I2s.   
Revelation Audio Labs (RAL) - Buyers Beware!
"Excellent" cables? Debatable. The used I2s RAL cable I purchased had very loud intermittent scratchy sounds coming out of the left channel. In the trash bin it went.  
...they're back....
Time for another doobie 😆