debrajray
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| Moon 761 -> 861 upgrade but keeping the 791 preamp/streamer @bimmerlover a veritable voice of reason! I agree with you, even though I'm going to go over to my dealer and listen for the fun of it. I don't have a well-treated room (acoustically speaking) --- and don't intend to turn my living room into a lis... | |
| Moon 761 -> 861 upgrade but keeping the 791 preamp/streamer Thanks @mgrif104 I'm definitely going to audition them as well by swapping out the amps and holding the 791 fixed. @freediver thanks for reminding me about cables; I've been meaning to audition the Transparent (ultra) and will do so. I have actua... | |
| Moon 761 -> 861 upgrade but keeping the 791 preamp/streamer @freediver you may well be right, and your implicit suggestion that I should be focusing on that instead is very well taken. Suggestions? Transparent, for instance? | |
| Moon 761 -> 861 upgrade but keeping the 791 preamp/streamer @freediver The cables are ok (AP Black Ovals) but room acoustics are not sorted out as it is living room space and not a listening room --- lots of books serving as baffles though. @kofibaffour I think you've touched the core of it --- I should re... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited Well said @fastfreight! In fact I auditioned the BW D4 series recently before the WWP and still preferred my old Nautilus 804 (certainly to the 804 D4 but also to the 803 D4). I’m envious that you have the old 802s, I remember them sounding beaut... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @sns I’m not worried at all. Some awareness of it is good actually. Anyway I have my core topology now and can now take partial derivatives instead of total. The latter involves too much setup cost. | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited As the OP, thanks to all for teaching me so much. Here is a summary of where I am now. I have two systems: (1) Moon 791/Moon 761/Wilson Watt Puppies (50th anniversary), and an older (2) Auralic Vega G2.1/Moon761/B&W Nautilus 804. (The B&... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @dbastin yes, all very useful for me as I think about how to reconstruct my setup; thanks. Quick question: you write that "ER Side A connects to the CX and via fibre to my Router - Mikrotik CRS 305." What are the transceivers you are using? | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @fastfreight to go easy on the headache let’s temporarily forget about the mechanics of the audio path (the extra switches etc). I have some observations on this but forget that for now. The only thing I am saying is to completely separate the aud... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @fastfreight yes, the clean network is a great idea but I'm trying to understand if it can be cleaned some more :-) Imagine that you threw out the verizon router and go straight from the ONT to a router that can generate two LANs on the same subne... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited Thanks @fastfreight you can see my thoughts above (and those of others) which are generally in line with yours. One thing I did not follow: if your baseline Verizon modem/router is generating two different LANs (for audio and non-audio) on the sam... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @sns will report back, yes will get an LPS. Thanks @audioman58 but if you read the last few posts carefully you will see why the 8702 does not work for me. I need 2.5 gb ports and I have zero use for the wifi. | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @sns This is the one I am going to try: ASUS RT-AX86U Pro (AX5700). It has wifi alas which I will disable. | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @sns Agreed, each additional switch adds an unneeded layer; so the router with SFP seemed like a good call. It is unclear to me what "audiophile SFP" would mean TBH, though I do agree that I liked some transceivers more than others. I need the 2... | |
| Wifi vs ethernet revisited @troutstreamnm SQ is very good in all these setups (including yours), see my original post. We’re just trying to figure out what’s better, which is possibly a crazy exercise, but it’s fun. On that note, @sns I’ve also tried different alternative... |