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| My Oppo is a bit too bright Have an Oppo 105D with the Modwright vacuum tube and external power supply option. Closest thing to high quality vinyl that I’ve heard. May be hard to find on used market though. | |
| Relative Spending on Turntables and Cartridges My thoughts:It’s a matter of where diminishing returns cut in most steeply, and what your budget is.For a $5-10k setup, diminishing returns for turntables seem to be about $4k, and $1500 for cartridges.For an under $2k setup, the figures seem more... | |
| Do pure copper banana plugs make a difference in the quality of the speaker sound. Btw, “white gold” jewelry is just rhodium plated gold. | |
| Do pure copper banana plugs make a difference in the quality of the speaker sound. Rhodium is the best material for contact surfaces. It is harder than gold. Rhodium is a good conductor (although this is not important for contacts), and rhodium does not tarnish. Second is gold, since it doesn’t tarnish as much as other materials... | |
| Amplifier warm up I leave my Pass Labs XA-60.5s in standby at all times, except storms and extended leaves.They still take 20-30 minutes to sound their best (or maybe it’s the tube preamp). | |
| High end stereo preamps? Worth it? I recently did the Ultimate Upgrade on a Cary SLP-05 preamp. Stunning. Well worth the cost for me. They feed a pair of Passlabs XA60s and Goldenear Triton One.R speakers. | |
| Roon Nucleus vs Aurender N100H Small Green Computer and microRendu sound excellent into Modwright Oppo 105D tube dac . At least equal to Aurnder N100H into the same dac.It’s nice to have Roon in this system. | |
| Roon Nucleus vs Aurender N100H After a little research, I’ve decided on the Small Green Computer server, the Sonictransporter i5, and a microRendu with linear power supply. I’m hoping that it is equal to the Aurender in sound quality with my Modwright Oppo 105 tube Usb dac sect... | |
| Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? In spite of the fact that this seems to be a recurring trolling thread, I’ll offer my experience. I have 2 systems. One has brand new Goldenear Triton One.r speakers. The other has a 20 year old Audio Physic Scorpio - about equivalent in price. Th... | |
| Anything wrong with PS Audio DirectStream DACs? With regard to the PS Audio break-in period:If a unit takes 200 to 300 hours to sound good, then I don’t want it. For me, that’s 6 months or more of listening to sub-optimum sound. Units that take that long to break in should be burned in by the m... | |
| Anything wrong with PS Audio DirectStream DACs? Had the PS Audio. Kept it for one week, then resold it. The sound quality was poor relative to its price it my system. Maybe it would shine in another system. A Mytek Brooklyn and a Modwright Oppo 105D were superior to the PS Audio for me. | |
| Discernment is bad. Self awareness is good. Thanks for your perspective Erik.In my case, I’m often trying to up the SQ of my system. But when I listen, I just listen and enjoy. I must be pretty lucky. | |
| Discernment is bad. Self awareness is good. Eric,I am missing your final outcome. Are you able to enjoy recorded music or not. If not, no point in continuing with A-gon. If so, how did you overcome the “discernment” problem? | |
| Speakers which always sound good Audio Physic - especially the older versions. I have AP Scorpios that have been easy to set up in both a large open room and a smaller closed room. They disappear in almost any room - possibly because of the 4 side firing woofers. They are efficie... | |
| Roon Nucleus vs Aurender N100H I’ll do some research. Separate Roon Core servers are relatively new to me. |