dougthebiker
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| 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. | |
| COINCIDENT FRANKENSTEIN 300B STEREO I have the 300B Elekit TU 8600S integrated amp paired with the GR Research NX-Oticas. Best sound and soundstage I have ever had. Previously had a $100k + Gryphon system. Still use the silver Gryphon cables which are incredible. Using the new W... | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? I generally agree with @coralkong. But I’d say if your speakers are at least about $5k and the rest of your components >$1k, better cables should be pretty evident if your system is set up right in a decent room. I have actually heard a sign... | |
| Did you notice.... It does run hot, but it’s only an issue if you’re plugging or unplugging cables, which seldom happens. I have had it for about 18 months. Couldn’t be more pleased. I used to have Gryphon class A monoblocks which ran much hotter for 25 years wi... | |
| Did you notice.... My CD transport is much more expensive than my streamer/player - Innuos Zen Mark III - and I get more detail, air and a wider soundstage playing Roon on the Zen than with most CD’s. Many/ most streamed tracks are re-engineered for streaming so it... | |
| Best interconnects from preamp to amps, within budget Nobody can tell you what you are going to like best in your vintage system. A good cable choice can dramatically improve the SQ of your system, so choose 3 or 4 brands - there were good ones suggested above - and order complete sets from vendors ... | |
| Sound quality of Roon I’ve found Roon sounds better than the Innuos Sense app on Innuos Zen MkIII. Then I found Roon running on a NUC as a core and using the Zen as only a player sounds better still. | |
| Which wire for internal recabling my speakers? Exactly which model numbers of Neotech are you talking about and what website sells it? | |
| Roon Core Server Player This has been an educational journey! With the investment of about $500 and 8 hours of my life, I built a fanless NUC 10 i3 in an Akasa case (a huge heat sink,) installed Roon ROCK Core software and hooked up my ripped CD library (from the Innuos... | |
| Roon Core Server Player I’m currently building a Nuc to run the Roon Core on. Will be I interested to see whether the Zen Mk III sounds better as an endpoint. Definitely liked Experimental mode better than Sense. May just be the synergy with then rest of my system.... |