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| Network optimization for serious streamers @debjit_g To clarify, what you said is what I meant to say. Vertere HB ethernet reduces noise and is analog sounding. Very transparent speaker cables will reveal any noise in your system or streaming setup. I personally find there are many plac... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @lalitk I’ve tried many ethernet cables. Pink Faun, Audience Hidden Treasure, Shunyata Alpha, Entreq, Network Acoustics Muon, and others. Vertere HB is a very analog sounding ethernet cable and is in a league of its own. It has less harshness/abr... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @thieliste Vertere HB is out of this world if you can get it to mesh with your analog cables. It does things no other ethernet cable I’ve tried can do. | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread @grannyring I have the Ultimate Premier. It was the only fuse I tried that didn’t sound hollow. It has a depth, or roundness to it. | |
| Ideon DAC's @singere Lumin U1 mini (modified to run on a linear power supply) | |
| Ideon DAC's @badgerdms We are living parallel audio lives. I had the same exact experience as you. The Merason DAC1 has not been taken off its perch on my rack since its arrival. | |
| Quantum Science Audio Thread @grannyring Yes, I did let the Purple fuse burn in. I've been happily running Beeswax fuse for a while now. I tried the stock fuse again and it was big step down from Beeswax. | |
| Network Switches @cleeds I won't speculate why, but in terms of musical enjoyment, I would agree 60% is about right. The switch seems to remove all the digital harshness and nasties so that there is a lot less listener fatigue. | |
| Network Switches I saw this testimonial on the totaldac for their switch: "Many enthusiasts think that the sound of a digital player is not as good as a CD player. That's because your digital player system can only exert less than 60% of its performance without a... | |
| Best DACs under $7,000.00 Merason DAC1 connects you to music. It’s just remarkable and oh so musical. I still find myself shaking my head in disbelief. | |
| Network Switches @lalitk I don't like to disparage other products on here, but the other switch was above $2k. It was jaw dropping what it did for streaming, but it wasn't my cup of tea. Anyone who claims switches can't affect the sound, they just haven't had ... | |
| Network Switches @david_ten "Since it hasn’t been brought up, consider GROUNDING the switch with a RJ45 terminated grounding cable." I ground my cable modem/router one box with an entreq box with a RJ45 grounding cable. I would never go back to streaming without... | |
| Network Switches @sns "Without switch, images and sound stage wonderfully dimensional and life sized. With added switch, while there was a minute increase in lowest level information, image outlines were drawn too precisely, still three dimensional but with cookie... | |
| Network Switches @tecknik I have never had an off the shelf switching power supply outperform a high quality LPS either. But I want to try the Hypsos Ferrum, which combines both. Grimm and other designers have been able to get their switching power supply to per... | |
| What is Your End Game System? @jerrybj I have the etherstream2. It’s very good and worth every penny. I think he underpriced it actually. It’s outperformed other switches that cost way more. I love it’s small footprint and that I can run it off a linear power supply. |