ghdprentice
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| Interconnects It is likely you are leaving sound quality on the table. Consider Transparent interconnects and AudioQuest Storm series. I have had Audio Research preamps and Pass amps for decades although I moved to Audio Research amps now. At the level of p... | |
| Aurender Model Choices I own an Aurrender N100 and W20SE and have had significant exposure to the N10 and N20 as well as a number competing streamers. Aurrender would always be my choice. In general, each level represents a substantial improvement in sound quality, in a... | |
| Change Revel BE driver color to black? The weight of a berillium tweeter diagram is on the order of 5 to 10 miligrams. A mid-sized duck feather is 200 mg. Let’s spray a light coat of paint on that… what double the mass? I don’t know but it will be a non trivial weight change. | |
| Breaking (burning) in new DAC I actually have some budget Schiit components that I can connect a new DAC to in order to break in. Do you have an office system or spare components laying around? | |
| Cable upgrades OP, ‘Don’t be in a hurry to upgrade your power cords. Enjoy the component in your system as is. Get to know it really well (while financially recovering). Then when you know the sound of your system start looking for power cords. | |
| DAC suggestion for PC I run my office system from my PC using a Schitt Gungnir. Schiit makes very good budget DACs. Worth investing at least to this level to get relatively natural sound. | |
| Change Revel BE driver color to black? I can’t image that would be possible without big effect on sound… negative. | |
| The $10,000 Question You are close to Minneapolis. Road trip on speakers. Worth the time. Some speakers you will want to hear. Sonus Faber for natural / musical B&W for rock heavy bass / a bit trebly Dyn Audio Accurate, fine details | |
| Ways to make your digital streaming sound better Whether fiber helps or doesn’t entirely depends on the implementation. If it is purpose built for audio it can sound better. If the conversion is with cheap converters incorporated just to have it… like the ones on TVs, then they will not sound go... | |
| What affects front to back depth in room/ system? 😊👍 | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @eagledriver_22 …”This leads to my conclusion that every one who is interested in this topic needs to find out for himself where the truth lies. ” Yes, very true. For me, I have been really amazed at how much the streamer makes a difference. But ... | |
| Preamp advice Well, pretty much any preamp. What is your price range? Without any information I would recommend the Audio Research LS28SE as an outstanding sounding reasonably priced preamp. Detailed, perfectly balanced, musical / magical sounding preamp wi... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources From an earlier in this post, I said …” I have streamed from about every device you can think of.” Let me go into a bit more detail. I have owned / used extensively in my systems: iPods, iPhones, iPads, several MACs, PCs (some optimized by shutti... | |
| Value of a preamp? I just knew Deep Audio was behind preamps. | |
| Comparing streamer/DACs between $5-10k @zlone Congradulations! Great sounding streamer. You are quite right about the additional opportunity for improvement by replacing the Gumby. I recently compared the Yggdrasil with the Linn ~$5K DAC and it was like night and day. There are s... |