janehamble
Responses from janehamble
| Attenuation pad I can't speak for the Rothwell's but I tried the Harrison RCA's not long ago. I had high hopes, as my DAC is far too hot for my amplifier and I can rarely turn the volume past 9 o'clock with all source data maximized. The great Alan Shaw of Harb... | |
| What is the BLUE JEANS equivalent for Power Cables? The Blue Jeans of power cords is the cord that came in the box with the component. It does the job, but you can do much better. | |
| Lab 12 DAC1 Special Edition @mrdonYep Yep it looks like the 'reborn' Lab 12 was some kind of scam. Unlikely that the various people who have 'just discovered' this product and are posting gushing reviews, are unaware that it's been around for years. No wonder they are looki... | |
| Flexible power cord for Ayre Codex Morrow MAP3 - and it won't cost you $300 | |
| A comparison between two DACs, one R-2R, the other ES 9038-based. I'm interested in the LAB 12 DAC SE. Can anyone confirm if it has changed in any meaningful way since it was first produced in 2013? | |
| A comparison between two DACs, one R-2R, the other ES 9038-based. Obviously you are going to get a lot of questions about your other equipment, with the implication that it might not be 'transparent (good) enough' to show the differences in sound quality between your DAC's. Others will wonder about your choice o... | |
| Audirvana Plus vs Roon - High Sound Quality at Lower Cost? I was an Audirvana fan/user from 2012 until 2017. convinced it offered the best SQ available. As with most A+ users, I spent many an hour tweaking the settings. Two years ago I decided to try Roon (1.3 at the time). I immediately preferred the R... | |
| Audioquest custom made triple weave design power cable (Storm Series). yep I might try the 90 degree adaptors. Thanks for the tip. | |
| Audioquest custom made triple weave design power cable (Storm Series). I haven't used Anticable power cords but I had a negative experience with their speaker cables (Reference 3). Sent them back pronto. Can fully understand @gdnrbob's issue with the stiffness of AQ Storm and have also considered 90 degree adaptor... | |
| Power Cords @freesole I also have a Niagara 1000. It came alive when I hooked it up with Storm Series cables. | |
| Power cord suggestions for Hegel integrated amp/dac? You must try an Audioquest Storm. If you can live with the stiffness and cost, there's no turning back. | |
| 10 db or 20 db attenuator? I also tried the Harrison Attenuators recently. Bought 2 sets of the 10 db versions so that I could try them in line and get 20 db attenuation, as well as 10 db.The sound quality with 10 db was slightly smeared, but some might say bearable. With... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio @mzkmxcv That's great to hear. So what exactly are the variables that actually matter in order to achieve better sonic performance? Loudspeakers? Presumably they matterThe rest? Not reallySo rather than "everything matters" you would be propon... | |
| Morrow IC's With all due respect to @dorkwad's comments above, most of which I agreed with, I used to have Morrow MA4's and were pretty happy with them. However I bought some Teo GC's - tempted by the promise of amazing performance - and spent about 400 hou... | |
| Is it all in my head?? @ wrxified (a) totally depends on which power cord. With the AQ Storm Series, you'll know which product is which 100% of the time, unless your have hearing issues(b) repeat the test with 2 DAC's, or 2 amps with volume equalized. You'll get the ... |