calvinandhobbes
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| 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... | |
| From Rossini Apex to ???? The Linn Organik DAC is worth auditioning. To my ears, it sounds sweeter than did the dCS Rossini because it does truly have an organic, visceral sound that is at least as detailed as the dCS Rossini. | |
| better power supply for Qutest I powered the Qutest with a portable jump start battery/power bank and also with a phone power bank using the USB-A outlet to connect to the micro USB port on the Qutest. Doing this reduced the noise floor and took away a bit of harshness. NOTE: i... | |
| Differences in YouTube, Spotify, etc. Qobuz, because it sounds best. My ranking of streaming service sound quality (as of November 2020) 1. Qobuz 2. Primephonic - now acquired by Apple 3. Spotify Premium (320 kbps Ogg Vorbis which is not lossless) - sounds surprisingly decent to... | |
| recommend PRAT Integrated amplifiers (not Naim) Naim amplification does have PRaT, but I’ve now heard other brands that offer sufficient PRaT but with more tonal color and richness than what I’ve heard from Naim amps. Pass amps stand out to me in this respect. @ghdprentice I’ll have to check ou... | |
| recommend PRAT Integrated amplifiers (not Naim) 100% @superhonestben. With music I know, I immediately hear the lack of PRaT. I used to play the violin and listen to a good amount of live music. The presence of PRaT allows what's going on in the music to make sense to me. I hear this in live mu... | |
| recommend PRAT Integrated amplifiers (not Naim) Another vote for Pass amps |