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| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @lowrider57 I am experimenting with different coax cables between the Node and the Chord. +1 to that suggestion. | |
| Jethro Tull “Thick as a Brick” CD revisited @hodu nothing very fancy: Chord QuteHD with MCRU lps and an iFi iPurifier2 with iFi iPowerX power supply. The iPurifer2 makes a significant difference but only when using with the upgraded iFi power supply. The MCRU lps used with the QuteHD helps... | |
| "Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time? “"Audiophile" Power Cables: The Greatest Audio Conspiracy Theory of All Time?” No. | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @lowrider57 roger that. The cables in the usedcable.com link look pretty impressive. | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @lowrider57 I tried to run down your High Fidelity Cables coax on the web. I couldn’t find any info on that wire, but their cable designs in general look pretty exotic. Does your cable have magnetic components? | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @lowrider57 there is a review from about a year ago, I think by Simon Price at 13th Note, where he tried a number of streamers and decided the Node was a better pure streamer than it was combined streamer/dac, and that the streamer function perfor... | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @lowrider57 I am using a DHLabs 75ohm coax which I would describe as “pretty good”. A poor quality coax cable I tried at first could not reliably support 24/192 signals from Node to dac. Swagman makes good power supplies, I use an SE model on ... | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 Thanks @kota1, these are the only iFi products I have tried, and they are very high value. | |
| Experience with iFi SPDIF iPurifier2 @fuzztone sounds like you consider the iPurifier2 input as “oh wow” and Toslink as “OK”. That is my experience too, at least between the Bluesound Node and either of the DACs I’ve tried: coax+iPurifier2 > coax > coax+iPurifier2+Toslink to DA... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? +1 for @bolong reference to GoldenSound review of the HoloAudio KTE May DAC, but I would also watch part 2 in which the reviewer tries to describe objectively and subjectively how all that technology translates into what he hears. Spoiler alert, ... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @simao first off, absolutely stunning listening room. Secondly, I feel like some of the focus in this thread around DAC cost isn’t really giving you all the tools that will be helpful to you in discerning different qualities of DACs at different p... | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? I love this thread. It’s like a tour of every party I went to in high school and college. Listening to many systems then, I figured out pretty early on it was all about synergy, and specifications didn’t mean a thing if your amp didn’t pair with y... | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume Plus one for Sonus Faber for “accurate”, “warm” and high volume capable. ATCs are certainly “accurate” and have a very high performance envelope in terms of loudness, but I doubt anyone would characterize them as “warm”. I have listened extensiv... | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume Hmmm, you can have “accurate” and “warm”, but it usually means flat-ish frequency response up to 15-17kHz and then rolled off response above that to reduce listening fatigue. So, actually “accurate” across all frequencies except the very highest ... | |
| Speakers for daughter @mjs KEF Q150 seems like a good daughter speaker. I am sure she and her crew are enjoying them. |