calvinandhobbes
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| Power conditioner/Surge Protection At least in my system, the Furman PST-8D Power Conditioner had a negative effect on sound quality. My initial impression was that plugging my system into the Furman made music sound calmer. After several more minutes of listening, it seemed like ... | |
| $8k for speakers - new or used For detail and punch, Monitor Audio Gold 300s might fit the bill or a set of used Monitor Audio Platinum 300s could be worth considering. I think they will have the speed and detail of your current B&Ws but just on the right side of the warmth... | |
| New speakers for a new start? I also love the sound of electrostatics, but having massive 6 foot tall panels anywhere in my house is a definite no go. One possibly surprising, fairly mainstream choice are Monitor Audio speakers. They are surprisingly fast in sound and are wel... | |
| Solo streamer Being happy...that’s generally everyone’s goal in life once the veneer of all the details is stripped out. The path to happiness is not necessarily a logical one & what’s logical is different for all of us. If @rvpiano is happy with his purcha... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response For a "normal" speaker, Monitor Audio speakers are quite fast. Not electrostatic level of speed, but they sound noticeably fast to me. A quote from a Stereophile review of the Silver 300s rings true to me: "What these speakers said was spoken wit... | |
| Least expensive plug-in power conditioner that works I've just been going through exactly this same exercise. Some comments that I posted in another forum: I listened to the rest of the test scenarios that I was considering 1. Cheap Computer Surge Protector - as a control 2. Audioquest Niagara ... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? +1 to thinking of Systems rather than individual components. Some people need to think of speakers first. If filling a room with sound at high levels is important, perhaps speakers have to be the first consideration On the other hand, speakers c... | |
| Solo streamer @mdalton Interesting to hear that the HiFi News & RR lab reports show that the Pro-ject streamer has very low levels of jitter and other noise. @aldnorab I've only tried one Wi-Fi extender, but the improvement it made over using the streamer'... | |
| Solo streamer I have to say that the Pro-ject Stream Box S2 Ultra connected to a Denafrips Pontus II DAC sounds surprisingly good for its price. I got it as a starting point expecting to upgrade it. I'll admit ,it looks like a toy, but I'm realizing how good it... | |
| Upgrade Denafrips Terminator 2 Curiousjim, one other option to get the Internet signal from your router to your streamer is to use a Wi-Fi range extender to create an Ethernet access port. The signal is sent from your router to the Wi-Fi extender and then you run an Ethernet ca... | |
| Upgrade Denafrips Terminator 2 @curiousjim I also wonder if the Netgear powerline adapter might possibly be collecting and feeding EMI or RFI into your system. I haven’t tried a powerline adapter but wonder about the effect of sending data through a power line. How has your exp... | |
| Upgrade Denafrips Terminator 2 @curiousjim First, a short answer to your question then a more detailed write up of my experiences comparing the AmazonBasics Cat 6 Ethernet cable to the Supra cable. Benefits that I heard due to the cleaner sound from the Supra cable were: ... | |
| Metrum Onyx vs Schiit Yggdrasil? FWIW, a comparison of the Yggy vs the Denafrips Pontus II from a friend that might provide some insight into how the Yggy sounds. Both tend toward a warner, more analog-like sound, but the Yggy and the Pontus are slightly different in their presen... | |
| Upgrade Denafrips Terminator 2 Another way to get sound that is "more holographic, more revealing" might not include a DAC change at all. I don't know if you've tried anything to reduce the amount of common-mode noise (i.e., EFI and RFI) in your digital signal path, but I've fo... | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? For digital, removing noise from your system in the form of EMI or RFI really helps produce smoother sound. You've taken the first steps by getting the Blluesound Node streamer. Other steps that can help are: Turning off the Wi-Fi receiver in y... |