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| Furutech FP-3TS762 or FP-TCS31 @petg60, your recommendation, TCS21 or TCS31 for dac with seperate linear power supply? | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? Ha bsimpson, funny story (except for the damage and ER). I think the results of vibration control tweaks are highly gear dependent both within a catagory (e.g. between preamps) and across categories. Undoubtedly, some gear has better designed an... | |
| Mapleshade Isolation: Does Nothing? After providing input on this thread and elsewhere based on experience with non Mapleshade solutions and “theory”, I just set up a full Mapleshade vibration control system ( brass footer, wood block, isoblocks) under my turntable replacing a DIY s... | |
| Mapleshade tweaks I just set up a modest Mapleshade vibration control system under my Thorens TD150mkII with Audio-Technica AT150Sa cartidge. I added low triple point brass footers, 2” unfinished maple platform and cork/rubber footers. All in less than $300 shipped... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol Check out the review below. The Marantz SA8005 is a solid player. I happen to own the original Arcam irDAC compared favorably to the Marantz here, at least for streaming digital. The original irDAC plus a decent digital interconnect can probabl... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol Gman74, plus 1. Relatively inexpensive but effective power conditioner set up: Shunyata Venom Defender in simple breakerless power strip like Wiremold L10320. Around $300 all in. Try this on your source and preamp, not power amp.Captbeaver, do ... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol Yeah, I would look at your source and the cabling. Nice speakers, they are going to tell you a whole lot more about what’s going on upstream. The Denon was nice in its day, but modern DACs are really getting good. You owe it to yourself to try s... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Donald Byrd - Byrd In Flight in 24/192 | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S You can get budget aftermarket power cables that provide over 50% of the improvements that SOTA cables provide at 1/10 of the price. The opposite of diminishing returns. Give the cable company your budget and tell them your gear and they may reco... | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S The critcal issues for power cables are speed of current rise, current capacity, protection from external EMI and protection from creating excessive EMI. Everything matters in this regard from to connectors to the conductors to the dialectric to ... | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S Yes, I am referring to EMI. I am not an electrical engineer so have only an audiophile’s interest in the subject and some trial and error experince under my belt including designing, assembling and using a few power cables.That said I have experi... | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S @skyscraper, here are some thoughts on running romex or other rather simple cable directly from your breaker box to your conditioner vs running a high end purpse designed audio power cable from a wall socket to your conditioner. From a current pe... | |
| Cable budget in a rig Good suggestion Elizabeth to try before you buy. | |
| Cable budget in a rig In one system I have, the cables are roughly 50% of the equipment cost to me, not counting any power conditioning. This is a lower cost office system, and this is where I landed as providing the best overall sound for dollars invested.In my main ... | |
| Good transport for under 1K? I would listen to Steve (audioengr) on this. Your <$1,000 would be better spent on a box that fixes jitter than on a pretty box that creates it but can’t fix it. I assume you already/still have a cd player with digital output that you are using... |