charles1dad
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| Linear Tube Audio- Little Known Great- Linear Power Supply @jjss49 no doubt lta makes good stuff, i am an owner and lover of their zotl 40 ref plus amp, a wonderful sounding and well built piece .... but quick research will shed light on the fact that there are plenty of excellent lps’s on the market t... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @ghasley The Grimm is hand made in the Netherlands, Eindhoven IIRC. Correct. Charles | |
| Analyzing DACs @decooney after playing the dac for a while it was one of the most sterile and boring sounding dac units I’ve ever tried or owned. The dac got returned for a full refund, thankfully. Agree, you cannot pick a component by measurements alone if y... | |
| recommendation of amps Hi Robert, You have received numerous good amplifier recommendations. I believe that a good quality push-pull tube amp would be an excellent sounding option for your audio system. However I do acknowledge your reservation regarding tubes. Keep in... | |
| Analyzing DACs I would say that the one advantage to following the ASR sheep is that the units recommended by ASR can be resold very quickly and without taking as much of a haircut in the process. That is a good observation. Charles | |
| Analyzing DACs @mastering92 And not all DAC chips are created equal. The easier it is to implement/ it can withstand all kinds of substandard parts tolerances and teperature variations/ the worse it will sound. Rather than have all parts when, which measured, d... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @ghasley My friend has the Pulse in house, which does have the multiple flavors of digital outputs. The Pulsar will be USB only. Those very favorable comments from the reviewer/ friend were about the Pulse? That is very encouraging. to know. ... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @ghasley Another option for you could also be to keep your Zenith, sell the Phoenix and get your hands on the Pulsar. For very little money (net) you gain the multiple outputs(aes/spdif/usb). Ive been told by a reviewer friend that it is an ama... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @sns Like Charles went with BPT 3.5 Sig, 80lbs behemoth. I further modded with Oyaide R1 and PorterPort receptacles Interesting you choose the Oyaide R1 receptacles. When Chris built mine he offered these as an upgrade option and I chose the... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? Agree with the benefits of using a balanced AC isolation transformer. I can see why the Torus RM 20 improved the sound quality. I have a BPT 3.5 Signature +, which is based around a high quality Plitron balanced AC isolation toroidal transformer. ... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @lalitk Aurender has expertly designed their streamers on low-power high-efficiency Intel CPUs with enough headroom to run the machine while minimizing the amount of current drawn in order to keep the noise floor as low as possible I can appr... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @sns I can only say change from HDPlex power supply in my custom build streamer to JCAT Optimo ATX was a HUGE improvement, ps is extremely impactful in streamer SQ. I’ll take it a step further and say that the quality of the power supply impact... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @sns I’ve come to realize my preference is for just slightly cool side of neutral, someone else may fall anywhere along this line. This preference is why I stated I’d prefer the Innuous over the Aurender based on @nyev sound analysis. No prob... | |
| Any experience with Magna Mano Ultra MkIII streamer I haven’t heard this component either but owner feedback and word of mouth praise is very positive. Hans Beekhuyzen owns and greatly admires his Grimm MU1 music server. In his review of the Magna Mano Ultra MK III he enthusiastically said it’s at ... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @grannyring Charles, I am going to put the Purple fuse in my Tron dac as my only tweak 🙂. We will see if it also brings the magic with this dac or not Bill, I’m genuinely interested in the outcome with the excellent Tron DAC. Did you find the S... |