dougthebiker
Responses from dougthebiker
| Current quality of Rune @sls883 I have found the secret to great SQ in Roon is to turn off any equalization or volume control in Roon. Don’t let it mess with the signal at all and it’s great. IMHO. | |
| Power cord @audphile1 is absolutely correct. Don’t buy any power cords you haven’t auditioned in your system! Just because a set of cords sounds good in someone else’s system doesn’t mean it’s going to sound good in yours. | |
| A brief review of GR Research Bully I've got the NX-Oticas; built them with some skilled help. I would not trade them for any other speaker I've heard and yes, I've heard the Magico M9s pushed by ~$750k of top-shelf electronics. | |
| Power cord upgrade I used to think components were more important cables. I now have done a 180 and am sure that cables are more important than components. Have a modest system compared with most of my friends in our audio club. Many of them have spent wel... | |
| Open baffle speakers I have the GR Research NX-Otica open baffles and their 2-driver OB sub. Most of the people in our audio club rate them as among the best they have ever heard. There’s certainly excellent bass. Very tight and textured. | |
| Power cord upgrade Other people's advice on cables is useless. Find a dealer (brick & mortar or online) who lets you audition them in your system, make sure they're broken in and try them in your system. Trust your ears. That's all that matters. I've tried c... | |
| Qobuz Had some issues the week before last with Roon being extraordinarily slow. Qobuz is my only streaming service, so it could have been the cause. The problem went away on its own about 4 days later. | |
| Recommendation for tube preamp Only buy equipment that you can audition at home. | |
| Battle of the Older DAC There is a brand new version of the Yggdrasil now, the Yggy+. I had the original Yggy and loved it. Every time I put a better power cord on it, the improvement came through clearly. But you should only buy a DAC that you can audition in your ow... | |
| Unplated copper spades/banana As I read all these posts, I can't help but wonder what the systems of the people posting are like. If your system cost less than $10k, I'd be surprised if it would reveal differences in plating type or plated versus unplated. I also wonder abou... | |
| Rays Tubes Trust your ears. | |
| Rays Tubes Telefunken smoothplate and Belvu Mazda grayplate 1964 | |
| Rays Tubes I’ve compared the Ray 12AU7s against two NOS brands recommended by Brent Jessee and against the Cryotones. Prefer the Rays in my Elekit 300B amp. | |
| Speakers that disappear @willy-t has it right. Ignore all the specific speaker recommendations. | |
| DAC options to consider for Innuos streamer I had my Innuos Zen Mk III connected to a Schiit Yggy and loved it. The latest iteration of the Yggy (+) has very good reviews. Plus it's upgradeable. |