mclinnguy
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| Sound quality differences in streamers @johnsmith55 I tested, tested, demoed, tested, and demoed, against my personal custom built pc. I have read about some other fellow who custom built his own PC for streaming, pushing everything to the n'th degree, testing hundreds of combin... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? I admit it is awfully impressive for any company to make a power cable that looks this good for under $80, but use some common sense. Just the knock-off connectors are look alike Furutech FI-50 connectors which retail for several hundred doll... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers If the unit is just transferring zeros and ones to a DAC can there be differences in say a $300 WiiM and a $3000 dSC streamer? And there is the ignorance, it is not just transferring "1’s and 0’s". Doesn’t common sense tell the ones who have h... | |
| Check This Out! For those of you counting your farads, it was discussed earlier in this thread the shocking values of capacitance the Galle II converter uses, at 2 thousand farad, or 2,000,000,000 uF. I can’t see the number for the Helene, but the Kassandra has... | |
| Best affordable Linear Power Stage @ghdprentice I am sure the best available power supplies are available inside audiophile equipment. Like this one in its separate box that connects to the Aries Cerat Kassandra? No outboard power supply necessary here, no DDC necessary eit... | |
| What is a "reference" system? Thunderbird is my "reference" hooch. The one that I judge all other hooch by. Otherwise, I would never know how good Cisco, Night Train, Tango, Richard's or MD 20/20 is. I have never heard of any of these names. I suppose I need a better fram... | |
| What is a "reference" system? My belief is "reference" implies one has more than one system, and the "reference" is the best one. That may be the most familiar, or most revealing system. If one has only one system then that must be their reference system, regardless of price o... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? .".. digital distortions are a-musical, and thus may occur at an analog level, that seem minor to a distortion analyzer, but isn't minor to your version 10,000 evolutionary brain. " I like this guy. | |
| Gustard X30 Well it contains a renderer, operates as an endpoint, and therefore is a network player, but can it be called a streamer if you cannot house your Roon core in it? I believe the term streamer contains both server and player parts. ASAIK this is whe... | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, I like the positive lock of XLR connectors I have had XLR's for years and years, and I only just had to purchase an RCA set for the Coincident Frankenstein 300b amp I just got. I now prefer the tightness of the RCA over the XLR connection- It... | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, The Kubula's are $1250, it would be surprising if any much lower priced interconnects such as the $188 Arcadia's on your list would be better than them, even if your pre "might" prefer an XLR cable, but ghdprentice allegedly debunked that theory a... | |
| What's up with the weird time stamp in these forums? Looks better today | |
| How do I connect my speaker cables to this Coda Amp Just to clarify, the spade is too wide to fit in the plastic slot? | |
| Any Advantages To A Streamer In My Situation Which makes me wonder, how much does the computer have to do with sound? Before I would say its minimal if not at all. Now I am not so sure. Which makes me wonder if a streamer would be appropriate. I believe I would still have to use the Nuc t... | |
| What's up with the weird time stamp in these forums? There are tariffs on the time. Depending where you live it is now off by 10-77%. |