mgrif104
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| Great customer service from Auralic Ltd. I will echo the OPs experience. I have also had direct correspondence with the company president when posing questions about preferred settings in the streamer and my Sirius upsampling processor. The company is very responsive to requests. I wil... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps There’s lots of good suggestions to try here. May I suggest you also look at isolation pucks for your amplifier and related equipment. I found I was having the same trouble. I couldn’t listen to Mahler symphonies as the peaks hurt my ears - even... | |
| Need recommendations for a streamer @juanmanuelfangioii You have a truly outstanding DAC in the Sim 680D. It compares quite well with anything near it’s price range in my view. However, If you want to take it’s performance to an even higher level, try auditioning it with an outbo... | |
| Sound quality of Roon The OP poses a good question. Before I offer my experience - I want to challenge those who share their experiences ending with “and it sounds great”. Yes - Roon sounds great. But can it sound better? Unless you’ve actually done direct comparison... | |
| Are the KEF Blade/Blade 2 Metas a Significant Upgrade from Blade? @audiobrian I just read the review in Stereophile. He concluded that it was the best speaker he had heard in his room. I also wondered about comparison to the original, but he clearly hadn’t heard the original Blade 2. So, I don’t think it was... | |
| Line Array VS Traditional Box Speakers, Why not just get the line array ? It’s a good question. The acoustic science behind Line Arrays is significant. They are designed to project high volumes a long way. There is a reason they’re used in large facilities - because it’s very difficult to get full volume to the bac... | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range May I ask what you are feeding your terminator? Personally, I have found the source to be as important as the DAC. Now, if you don’t care for the tonality of your existing unit, that is not likely to change with a better source, but some of the ... | |
| Lumin U1 Still Relevant?? I would suggest an extensive audition of the Simaudio streamer. It’s very possible their outboard unit is quite good, but the Mind2 built into their DACs (including the 680 and up) just wasn’t competitive with other units I’ve auditioned and parti... | |
| Gryphon Amp Owners: Results with AQ Niagara? Others may have a different view, but I’m thinking you should audition the Niagara before deciding on a power cord upgrade. I have a Niagara 5000 and it made a remarkable difference in my system - such that it negated much of the benefit of usi... | |
| Will upsampling of new DAC make lossy sound as good as Lossless I agree with the answers above, but want to add a couple of points. 1) It’s my understanding that the purpose of upsampling is not to create new and/or better data, but to move the digital filtering to a much higher frequency so that the steep sl... | |
| Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "? To the question of “needing” an audio grade network switch - no. However, in my and many other’s experience - they can make an improvement. It’s not because they deliver better bit packets, but because they do not add as much noise on the signal... | |
| Streamer vs renderer vs music server...help @crandell25 as you own a Vega G2, I’m going to suggest you consider trying Auralic’s Aries G2.1 streamer. I have a different view than Carlsbad - The streamer or source is at least as important as the DAC in my experience. I know of several wh... | |
| Burning in question Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ll be able to make some progress before installing it. Appreciated. Best, | |
| Sound Better w/Amp Directly Into Wall Then Thru Zero Surge If they are within your budget, may I suggest you try an Audioquest Niagara 5000 or 7000? They are designed to address the current limiting issue of most conditioners by providing a power bank which can actually provide more current than what’s a... | |
| streamer Lumin U1 or Aries G2.1 @fastfreight I was told by the distributor of the Tambaqui that the Aries G2.1 is a better source than using its built in function. I have compared my Aries to Lumin U1, Aurender (N100 which I owned), Node 2i (which I own in another system) and... |