mikhailark
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| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? Oh, so "audiophile" is about gear then. Well, this is exactly what Alan said ;-) He has tons of real gear in properly treated rooms at his workplaces :-) For some reason I don't think they elevate cables off the floor. | |
| New Amp concept or already there? Tesla makes batteries that can power the entire house. Tesla Powerwall. It obviously converts DC to AC for regular home appliances, but nothing prevents you from running direct DC line to your amp? | |
| Power Cables @sealegs - interesting, my Terminator came with a power cord... | |
| Power Cables @soix - of course dealers use what they want to sell you. Streamer is an ARM Linux box. I'd be happy to learn what is there "built to the purpose". Power supply? RAM? SSD? Fans? USB circuitry? Special network software stack? I am eager to study ... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? Parsons has videos on youtube on his home gear and speaker setup. He owns pretty expensive stuff. All his recordings sound great - at home. Perhaps because he knows home music reproduction well. But hey - people discuss Ethernet cable performance... | |
| Stack Audio-SmoothLAN Network Filter- WOW! How would vibration of a cable affect network stack? | |
| SS vs Tube Phono SUT/Output Stage Agreed. There is fair amount of properly designed tube gear, such as yours or BAT, for example. But also a lot of tube gear deliberately designed with specific “tube sound” intent. Nothing wrong with that. If someone is longing for sound from yest... | |
| Digital vs Analog experiment I did not match precisely, but it was familiar recording and fairly significant details were missing. Such a bass drum on CD and HD Tracks was close to non existent while clearly there on LP and 24/96 I made myself. | |
| Denafrips -Bashing Denafrips New 12th anniversary models Terminator 12th, Iris DDC. No issues whatsoever. | |
| Stack Audio-SmoothLAN Network Filter- WOW! There is no such thing as “performance degradation caused by external vibrations” in Ethernet unless your cable is simply broken and not soldered properly. | |
| Repeater/extenders are evil! You may start with checking what is your WiFi performance. Is it reliable? Indeed high speed? Does not lose connection to the router periodically? There are software tools for this. | |
| SS vs Tube Phono SUT/Output Stage Pass Labs. Solid state, but Nelson uses MOSFETs which sound close to tubes without being too “warm” or “rolled off”. | |
| Anyone Paid Tariffs on Chinese Imports Lately? I bought Denafrips DAC and headphone amp for a close to $10K and paid nothing. They were shipped from China. | |
| Your journey...to Audio Note (and beyond?) Poor bass. It is not a gear for rock. Although I am planning to buy a kit and make DAC 5 and maybe an amp just for fun. | |
| Is there any fan of Mettalica here? Certainly! Although I don’t actually want to reproduce concert sound at all. My goal, is, in fact, the opposite. |