jl1ny
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| Dac or Power regen, which gets the better cable? Taking everyone’s thoughts into consideration I’ve come up with a plan. The incoming pc is a VD Masters series and that will go on my amp (str8 2 the wall), the pc from the amp is a VD David series and that will go to the Preamp. The pc on the pre... | |
| Dac or Power regen, which gets the better cable? @bkeske I thought about going to the streamer but I’m thinking the Dac would benefit more from a higher grade PC since it has a giant power supply (Denafrips Terminator). | |
| Dac or Power regen, which gets the better cable? @erik_squires Great point! | |
| Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable I choose Supra Cat8 for its build quality, at 50 bucks per meter, I thought it was a reasonable upgrade. At the time I was using a Node2i with a ARC dac, can’t say for certain if there was definitive improvement over the stock Cat5, at best there ... | |
| Tweaking the network, surprising results… @retiredfarmer No worries brother and thank you for the compliment. The Ref 3A’s are fantastic, I cannot wait to get them into a dedicated room and hear them at their fullest potential. | |
| Tweaking the network, surprising results… @retiredfarmer My speakers are dialed in tight. I geeked out and pick up a Prexiso laser measurement gizmo off Amazon. Best toy ever! I was surprised to discover how off my speaker placement was. @wsrrsw Network Acoustics Muon Ethernet Fil... | |
| Tweaking the network, surprising results… Thanks for chiming in fellas, it’s 1230am right about now and I’ve been sitting here for the past couple hours playing track after track of recordings that I’m extremely familiar with and I keep trying to wrap my head around how things have chang... | |
| Qobuz or Apple Music? Dumped Tidal for Qobuz and never looked back! | |
| Help with Aurender/Qobuz playlist @ghdprentice Ha! Found it. There’s another tab for playlist on the bottom left. Don’t know what the difference is from the playlist tab at the top…Not very intuitive if you ask me. | |
| Levinson 380S vs Boulder 810 I appreciate the responses. I’m a big fan of ARC tube gear (and tube gear in general) having owned the VT100 back in the day (love that amp) Unfortunately my current living situation cannot accommodate a tube rig. At best, a tube pre is possible a... | |
| Mark levinson 532h and 531h Ever noticed that big Jay still has the 532H in his rig? I’m assuming it’s powering his home theater nevertheless it’s interesting that of all the amps he’s burned through, he’s kept the 532H around. | |
| Nordost Cable Listed in Order of Importance The way I approach it is, It’s relative to what currently is the weakest link in your cable game. For me, the biggest improvement was speaker cables. | |
| Acoustic Guitar on Vinyl Doug MacLeod / Reference Recordings | |
| Terminator II or Rockna Wavedream Edition (non signature version) which one to buy and why Just an FYI for the OP and Denafrips owners who may not already be aware of this- I’ve found that utilizing the USB output is an absolute must. I initially discounted using USB because my unit needed a firmware upgrade which I didn’t have the capa... | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range @vthokie83 I too just made the switch over from coax to USB on my Terminator. I can concur with your findings, I’m temporarily using a cheapo $10 Amazon USB cable and it’s besting a very good Cardas Clear digital coax. It’s a bit of an eye opene... |