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| Linear power supply I had the same experience as @curiousjim with Teddy Pardo and a Node N130. Not saying for sure you would get the same bang with the Icon, but my experience with N130 is that the Pardo supply made the biggest difference of any aftermarket supply I... | |
| Adventures With Subwoofers There is also this: https://rel.net/pages/speaker-pairings | |
| Adventures With Subwoofers Someone just mentioned subwoofer volume. There was a recent thread on Agon where this was discussed and turning down both the crossover frequency and the volume on my sub did wonders to clean up the sound in general and reduce the localization of... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please @goodlistening64 Thanks for sharing that experience. I have compared a coax (pricy The Chord Company Signature Super ARAY - from the N130) with good DHLabs USB (from computer) and toslink (from the N130) cables with Qutest. In my system the res... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please “Bluesound will not honor the warranty on a Node if you use anything other than their power supply.” This is correct, if they actually bother to check that you opened the box. But for me, the low initial entry cost of their devices generally and... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please @goodlistening64 Thanks for clarifying that you are talking about the Node Icon. I did not know all other versions of the Node are operating in synchronous mode only when accepting data via USB. My hope is that there would be zero or close to i... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers Craig and lak +1 | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please @goodlistening64 Thanks for your thoughts on this. I did not know that the USB C cable connection is not asynchronous. Is that generally true for that format, or only as implemented to connect a storage device to a Node N130? (My cable is ac... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please “This may also be why I experienced in big upgrade in sound quality (perceived) using the Node as a streamer when adding an external linear power supply.” Correction: using the Node as a server - not as a streamer. kn | |
| New DAC - better low resolution digital music performance? “Done carefully a digital system (now ah days) garners tiptop sound indistinguishable from other sources.” This is not my experience, yet. I freely admit my system is not the most resolving, but the Node N130 with a decent linear power supply an... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please @dynacohum - I was thinking the same thing - just purchase the playlist you care And are concerned the most about and store on a hard drive connected to your Node - easy peasy. But what you use for physical media matters, at least for a Node N130... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please @ronboco - hope you are getting some helpful information. | |
| Need Integrated amplifier Does anyone have suggestions for an integrated that meets the OP’s requirements but instead of HT bypass has internal preamp bypass (preamp in) so can use integrated amplifier section as the LR amp for HT purposes controlled by AV pre? This shoul... | |
| Aging ears and Nuances Interesting discussion. I am 66 and feel I am only getting better at listening to and distinguishing subtle differences in music and music reproduction systems even as my hearing acuity in general has declined some - evidenced by greater difficul... | |
| Has anyone heard the Bluesound Node Icon streamer DAC? The Icon uses a built in switch mode power supply like all versions of the Node except the Nano which uses an external ‘phone cube’ switching supply. If you try out the Icon and like it, as suggested by @bassbuyer above, adding a good external sup... |