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Anyone have experience with VTV amplifiers?
If you want to fix the internal issues it was a nice neutral amp. Good power, bass sounded nice not boomy. I think the Purifi is about the best class D at a reasonable  price at the moment. I have seen issues with Nord as well ,speakers wired wron... 
Anyone have experience with VTV amplifiers?
The XLR pin 1 is wired wrong and there is no mains ground.  Speaker and XLR connections were soldered sloppy.  
Nord Acoustics Easy Stream Connect DAC 9038
I’ve never heard this DAC but it uses the Khadas board which measures very well. Probably a good neutral DAC. Does Nord offer an evaluation period? 
Who's Gone Topless?
It puzzles me why anyone declares HUGE changes without taking into account human biases. Now" I think there was a slight improvement but I  have no way to verify" , elicits no response from me. Extraordinary claims and all, evidence beyond testimo... 
Perfect Path Total Contact no longer?
Your old road is rapidly agin'Please get out of the new oneIf you can't lend your handFor the times they are a-changin'I guess a snowflake didn't like my last post. 
It happened again tonight
Apple and tree. 
Who's Gone Topless?
It would be more interesting if this was all done blind to eliminate sight bias. Get some friends over who have good poker faces and have them do the deeds. If indeed the improvement is HUGE shouldn't  matter. 
power cord directionality
If you're not getting ground loop noise then it doesn't matter. The only reason for the arrow is if they lifed a shield on one end in an unbalanced wire. Yours is balanced with the three pin XLR the arrow is irrelevant. 
Anyone have experience with VTV amplifiers?
Don't send me PM's ask the questions in the open forum. The VTV was a neutral amp with good detail, I liked it. As I said I wasn't impressed with the build quality and I didn't want to bother with modifying.  One thing I really disliked was the po... 
Is my room size going to be a problem for speakers?
In a room that small you could try Ohm 1000's.  
My Demo results: I feel like I'm at a frustrating block in my speaker journey
Having the sofa in front of the speaker I think you would get better results using bookshelf and sub. If You can afford it powered speakers are good advice as well.  
Anyone have experience with VTV amplifiers?
I had one of their Purifi amps for about a week and returned it. The amp worked, didn't sound bad but I wasn't impressed with the build quality. 
Giving up on Itunes! Alternatives? I want to run my hardrive with a dedicated tablet.
You could put a raspberry pi with a dac HAT together for a decent price (hifiberry.com). It doesn’t have a volume pot. If you want to see scope numbers on dacs look at this site.https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?pages/Audio_DAC_Perfor... 
USB cable: One Continuous length for Best SQ?
I never tried it, I was just showing the OP a solution for very little money he could try. I use ethernet for long runs.  
Roon endpoint or Dac with Room correction
I think the SHD not the Studio would be an upgrade how significant I can't say. I know what the manual says but I ran Dirac 2 on a Windows 8 laptop even though it says it only runs on Windows 10. The Studio so I assume the full SHD will as well wo...