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| New DAC or New Streamer? @charles1dad . Roon is more fully featured, but Sense is simpler and more than enough for me. At least Sense is free, and enabling the Roon trial is also easy. Give it a few months for it all to settle before trying it though. | |
| New DAC or New Streamer? Hi @charles1dad Good questions. I bought the Zenith Mk3 a few months ago, but effectively don't use the internal hard drive. 99% of my listening is new stuff, so I stream Qobuz. It's also the case that many of my CDs have since been remastere... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? @zufan - it's a good point regarding the other luxuries. I partly funded my system by selling my Omega after I realised I'd spend more servicing it than I had on buying it 15 years ago. Think of those who might spend 50k on a Porsche, then on... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? I've told no-one, despite being repeatedly asked by: my wife, my brother, friends etc Some prices can easily be researched. Any fool can google the current price of a 3-way ATC speaker (SCM40). But no way am I telling anyone I spent £1500 on a... | |
| New DAC or New Streamer? This year I upgraded my entire system. The source used to be the same Cambridge as yours, and is now Innuos. As I've also bought new speakers, amp and DAC, plus cabling, it's impossible for me to accurately state where the improvements begin and... | |
| Cables to settle brightness Over the past few months, as I improved all aspects of the sound, I noticed it getting brighter and too analytical. I posed the question somewhere on this forum and was pointed at Duelund wiring. It’s very affordable, and won’t need plugs or jumpe... | |
| Innuos Network Isolation Switch and Reclocker (Phoenix) @nyev On the basis of the points you made regarding the powering of the Phoenix's I decided to overhaul the setup of the powering of my digital sources. Cable-wise, I previously had a couple of old Ecosse Big Reds, an unshielded Russ Andrews Yell... | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? I would definitely agree that the ethernet stage can be the most complex, and certainly seems to allow the most possible upgrades, warranted or not. And I would certainly agree with @sns , that a decent switch can make things worse. I tried the N... | |
| Innuos Network Isolation Switch and Reclocker (Phoenix) @nyev . Good to know. You mentioned the importance of the power cable for the PhoenixNET. Did you experience the same dependency with the PhoenixUSB? I had assumed that as one of the Phoenīcēs* key features is the internal linear PSU, then p... | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? @dvdgreco When I started off on my recent complete overhaul of my hifi, I was similarly convinced that surely 1s and 0s are sacrosanct, and what is the point in buying better than a budget Cambridge streamer/DAC. It wasn't until I tried several d... | |
| Innuos Network Isolation Switch and Reclocker (Phoenix) @nyev . A good review. I think I'm happy enough with my SotM ISOCAT - though you have tempted me a little. Just curious, what ethernet cable do you use before and after the PhoenixNet? I have the PhoenixUSB and have one good and one great USB... | |
| Innuos Network Isolation Switch and Reclocker (Phoenix) Personally, I found one of biggest improvements was actually free. The SQ without Roon is much better. Admittedly, Roon has some nice features, especially the equalisation options, but overall I felt it softened the sound too much | |
| Careful if buying Purist Audio Neptune fluid cables. Thanks, @lyh0121 . Maybe I'll return to the UK dealer and see if he can lend me a pair of the Poseidons. He won't accept returns as they're special order. Saying that, I'm something like 100 hours into a pair of Duelund SCs, and they're terrifi... | |
| Basic Roon Question I recently trialled Roon through my Zenith Mk3, and much preferred the sound without Roon. Having looked at a number of similar threads to this one, I believe this is consensus. With Roon I did notice a drop-off in detail, and a warming. And... | |
| New speaker cables recommendations sought I would second @grannyring 's endorsement of the Duelund cables. I started off with Tellurium Q Ultra Black II feeding my ATC SCM40s. Though some regard these cables as a touch warmer than neutral, I was finding the overall sound a little hard ... |