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What the Best Dac have you heard or owned. How could you tell it was that good.
@jetter Not sure why you disagree with me and then provide your own evidence why it is in the ditch.  
What the Best Dac have you heard or owned. How could you tell it was that good.
Well, this thread went deep into the ditch.  
$100-200 linear power supply
Digital glare does not exist.  
In-wall cable
In-wall 10awg wire generally should be solid.  
In-Room responce measurement with Legacy Focus SE speakers
@erik_squires A lot of us read and take your advice.  But it is those who don't who are vocal and argumentative.  Often taking your advice results in quiet satisfaction of a problem solved.   Jerry  
eBay
Many missed the point of this.  Don't know if it is legal but it isn't ethical.  their fees should be based on sales price (and they used to be).  Then the figured out that most won't notice if they charge the fees on the shipping  too.  So if you... 
Looking for Cerious Technologies Graphene Matrix D2 1.5M RCA ICs
The forum admins don't always give you a pass for not knowing.  I would delete this right away.    
Looking for 50-100 watts of Tube Power (give or take) for my JBL 4349s
Check out the custom high power SETs by Apollo Audio Systems.  Small shop with the amps hand made by the designer.  Excellent stuff. He has a 20wpc 811a amp that would be perfect for a 91dB speaker unless you're trying to fill a basketball arena. ... 
S/PDIF coax to BNC
I have an m-scaler to convert USB to BNC.  Before I got the m-scaler I used USB.  The USB on the DAVE is excellent.  I don't know about eh CNX but it isn't really in the same class as the DAVE anyway so you might consider upgrading.   to make sur... 
This One has Me Stumped
Take the pass to a friends house and see if the problem follows you.  Sounds like you think you can measure what is causing the problems, yet you don't know what is causing the problems.  Right now you have no solid evidence that the Pass preamp i... 
What About LiFePO4 Batteries and Pure Sine Wave Inverters?
You ask about the inverter but never answer your question. I think that it will be very hard to find a commercial inverter that is not noisy simply because all loads other than high end audio don’t require a high quality inverter. And commercail a... 
Turntable prices. Is my mind going?
While I'm not going to buy a $300,000 turntable (or a $1000 turntable for that matter) I am not going to call somone an fool for buying something that I've never heard.   That thinking could apply to a lot of threads here, often bashing equipment... 
Component contributions to “sound stage”
Soundstage is recorded on the source.  So look for components that reproduce the source most accurately.   
Are You a Swifty?
add me to the pass list.  
Deezer streaming
I used Deezer for a while.  I found their files to be of good quality and I liked their interface best of all the ones I tried. Then I switched to roon and Deezer isn't supported.  Otherwise I might still be using them. Jerry