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| Furman Upgrade to Niagra I’ll second @adasdad’s opinion that the Niagara line is worthwhile. Since I’ve been in this hobby, I’ve tried the Furman PST-8D, AQ Powerquest 3, and consumer-grade options by Tripp Lite and CyberPower. None of those units made much of a differenc... | |
| DAC with i2S I have no experience with the brand, but Holo Audio just came out with a sub 2k DAC (w I2S). | |
| Help with speaker selection For extreme listen-ability (no harshness), but with more detail, I would suggest Rosso and Audiovector. Like Sonus Faber, Rosso has a silk done tweeter, but it also incorporates a supertweeter, which I believe adds to the resolution, especially i... | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions @jcs01 What would you say are the characteristics of sound from the ATC’s that you like? And, what are the characteristics of sound that you heard from the ATC’s that you didn’t hear from the other brands you mentioned? I ask because I may be hav... | |
| Which Would You Choose? @soix and @jeffreyw already recommended what I was going to say. I believe your best bang-for-buck upgrade may be a power conditioner. Like you, I have a more mostest system. I dropped an AudioQuest Niagara 5000 w/ Tornado power cable into the sy... | |
| Roon and Streaming Services I have been back and forth subscribing to either Qobuz or Tidal. Now, I have current subscriptions to both and have their libraries aggregated in Roon. Like others here have said, both services largely have overlapping libraries, but I believe it'... | |
| Looking for an all-in-one just-add-speakers streamer for my son to take to college I was in the market for a convenient system this year. I was looking hard at the streaming-amp options. I too had about settled on the Cambridge Evo when I realized I could go with active smart speakers. I ended up purchasing the KEF LS50 Wireless... | |
| Streamer with decent app I've been using some KEF LS50 Wireless II's for the TV. Super convenient. No remote needed. From the app, they auto-power up when they sense a source. Volume adjustments can be made from your music app or, for video content, from the TV remote. I ... | |
| Power conditioners and power regeneration Thanks for sharing links, Erik. I haven't come across voltage regulation gear aimed at the HiFi market other than the PS Audio power plants. It makes sense to me that "AR" would be useful for HiFi, not just the pro market. I use a UPS for my hom... | |
| Power conditioners and power regeneration @erik_squires What Furman gear models do you use for voltage regulation and surge protection? Many manufacturers ask not to stack surge protectors with their uninterruptible power supplies, but those UPS's are some of the only gear I've seen that... | |
| Power conditioners and power regeneration This youtuber uses a gizmo to test noise on the AC line and compares it to Furman and AQ Niagara. In my system, I recently traded out an AudioQuest PowerQuest3 for a Niagara 5000 w Tornado power cable. The sonic result was a substantial increase... | |
| Do I REALLY need preamp and what do I upgrade the amp too? Audiogon is rejecting my posts, so I'll post in pieces. Like you'll I'll soon focus on whether I believe a preamp is necessary for my system. Mikey, in the video above, argues that preamps aren't economical for high-end all-digital systems--bett... | |
| Do I REALLY need preamp and what do I upgrade the amp too? Mikey on preamps | |
| Upsampling PCM or DSD in 2022 @hgeifman I started this thread over a year ago and have mentally made note of other audio upsampling options. Besides offerings from Chord and PS Audio, Lumin streamers support upscaling to DSD, Emm labs DAC upsamples to DSD. I forget what othe... | |
| No HDMI out from 4K 85" Sony @dbphd I recently had to deal with this same issue on a Samsung TV. The solution was to turn off all the CEC/eARC toggles, then turn them back on again. There are two toggles in the "Audio" section and one hidden in the "General" section of the Sa... |