jaytor
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| Best Server To Run Roon Core It should be placed between your router and Nucleus. Hmm... I had better luck putting my EtherRegen between my server and my streamer when I was using a streamer. Since @decathlon1991 is using the Cary as the streamer, I'd recommend trying it i... | |
| Best Server To Run Roon Core The Gaia does a few things. It can convert virtually any input type to virtually any output type, so you can optimize the connections to your devices based on what works best and what cables you have available. It isolates the inputs from the outp... | |
| Best Server To Run Roon Core I'm also in the DIY Roon ROCK camp. I built a Roon server using a NUCi7 in a fanless Akasa Turing case. I built a higher end configuration because I wanted to be able to support multiple zones simultaneously and experiment with DSP. So my configur... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? If @madavid0 is using the VTV buffer boards with Weiss opamps, these have Sparkos discrete regulators for the low voltage power, and these are independent for each channel. It's possible, though, that the SMPS supply is configured for regulated V... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? That can be caused by an offset problem at the input of the comparitor- if its something like that I would regard it as a malfunction. Seems unlikely that this would be the case in both channels (assuming that's the case). Since this is a stere... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? They are basically compatible. The NC500 has a clip output which the Purifi board does not. The NC500 recommended op amp supplies are +/-15v where as the Purifi module recommends +/- 12V, but the Purifi max rating for this supply is +/- 20v, so yo... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? I have to say that I am enjoying the sound from my DIY Purifi amps a lot more than the Nord NC500 amps I had last year. I don't know if this is because of my use of a large linear power supply in my DIY amps, the difference between the Purifi modu... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? @speakermaster - what do you consider a "good high-current AB type amplifier"? | |
| Integrated recommendation for Revel F30 I have a pair of F30s. I used them primarily with a Mark Levinson 383 integrated, but even used, this is out of your price range I think. I've also used them with Parasound electronics and they sounded great. I'd recommend looking for a used Paras... | |
| Question on Streamer/Dac and Roon Roon recommends using a separate device for the core and endpoint since the core is much more compute intensive than the endpoint, and thus a device that is doing less computing (and thus theoretically quieter) can handle the endpoint duties to de... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? @djones51 - are you in the audio business? If not, why do you bother to listen to lots of different amps if they all sound the same to you? | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? I never said I was immune to sighted bias. But there are often cases where the sound differences easily overcome this bias. In the case I mentioned, the differences were quite easy to hear by several listeners. | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? @djones51 - if you don't trust your own ears and your ability to overcome sighted bias, that's fine, but telling everyone else that they are wrong is pretty arrogant. In my past experience with the Nord Hypex NC500 monoblocks using the Sparkos and... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? Thanks Mike. I believe the Weiss opamp is pin compatible with the Pro series opamps from Sparkos and Sonic Imagery, but not their dual discrete opamps. I want to give my amps a couple more weeks of burnin before I decide how to proceed with the We... | |
| Roon ready Music Streamer with I2S digital output? You could also consider adding one of Denafrips’s DDCs. I’m using the Gaia to convert USB to i2s and the difference in SQ compared to AES3 from my steamer was stunning. |