dougthebiker
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Experienced only: What have you done with room correction? Best thing I ever did for room response was move my sub about 4’ BEHIND my listening position. Suggested by Paul McGowan of PS Audio. It really works! | |
USB cables conducor - help @lalitk is correct | |
Streamers/DACs I agree with @jerryg123 Don’t depend on anything but an independent DAC. Even in a great amp or streamer. DACS get radically better every year. I run a NUC server with an Innuos streamer and I have never heard anyone’s system at any price sou... | |
The Beatles Revolver Check out the Beatles Love LP. I think Giles was involved in that and the SQ is great. It is a total re-engineering of the originals, but I like the fresh take. | |
Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... You’re getting a wide variety of advice here, some good and some bad. with the price of the rest of your system, it would be a gigantic waste to keep an ordinary PC in the chain. I’ve found that Roon running on a separate dedicated server (like... | |
Router for Audio Streaming BTW, if you believe Audio Science Review, you should be switching to lamp cord for your speakers and snapping up used Radio Shack interconnects. Seriously, the guy doesn't want to admit he doesn't know which variables to measure or at what scale. | |
Router for Audio Streaming Not really. | |
Router for Audio Streaming @yoramguy1, wireless is truly inferior. It's like going back to MP3's instead of CD's. Digital signals in routers, cables and WiFi are not 1's and 0's. They are analog square waves that get decoded as 1's and 0's. All sorts of things - cheap r... | |
Router for Audio Streaming @yoramguy1 It’s best to trust your own ears. I think the UpTone Audio EtherRegen has a 30 day trial period. If you can’t hear an improvement, you send it back and save $600! | |
Router for Audio Streaming The biggest improvement you can make - once you get some router working - is the UpTone Audio EtherRegen switch. It requires an ethernet cable connection to your router. It will give you one "clean" port out to your streamer/player. It gets rid... | |
Thoughts about the "Cheapaudioman" on YouTube I think he'd gain some credibility - as would most reviewers - if he had a reference setup and just substituted the component he's reviewing into it. Most reviewers have so many variables floating around every time they listen, who knows what's c... | |
Need 25 foot interconnects The NeoTech I referenced above is Ohno Continuous Cast, single crystal copper. Far superior to Mogami and Canare - I’ve tried both - and MUCH better SQ than Blue Jeans. | |
Need 25 foot interconnects Hum is more frequently a grounding issue than noise picked up by shielded interconnects in my experience. A quick test is to float the ground on your components, particularly the amps, and see if it goes away. If it does, it’s not your interconn... | |
Need 25 foot interconnects You’re getting some bad advice here. As one respondent correctly said, unless the amp and preamp are both fully balanced, XLR’s do you no good. For DIY, I recommend NeoTech NEMOI 3220. Single crystal. OFC. Can’t be beat at the price. Not c... | |
Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Been a Bruce Hornsby fan for decades but just stumbled across his live album, Intersections. His cover of Madman Across the Water is my new favorite audiophile track. Try it. I think you’ll love it. |