mitch2
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| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions Good comments and about streamers - thanks. I was able to hook up the Sonore Signature Rendu SE Optical (SRO) today in my system for a trial, and I like what I am hearing. I then wired a new dedicated line to my panel to power my IT-server area a... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ You will likely get almost as many different opinions as responses. Mine is, you could do a bunch of stuff and buy a bunch of stuff but, unless you have a noticeable noise issue, you will be hard-pressed to hear a difference from the changes bein... | |
| Bananas vs Spades - for Jumpers? “bananas on one end and spades on the other” The best option for flexibility, IMO. I like the BFA style. | |
| Is it important to long demo or own HIGH END gear to have a fair accurate view about it? @noromance @bigkidz +2 I cannot think of a time in the past 20 years when I have been wrong on my first impression of a component/speaker after trying it in my system. Sometimes in the "first 5 minutes" and certainly within the first couple of ... | |
| Is it important to long demo or own HIGH END gear to have a fair accurate view about it? Lower the prices That’s ridiculous. High end audio is a tough business and few get rich off of it. Pricing is reflective of R&D costs, manufacturing, sales network (dealers or direct), shipping and, finally, what the market will bear. Compa... | |
| Duelund Tinned Copper Speaker Cables @mdrone - I have compared the Jupiter tinned copper wire against the same from Duelund as ICs and couldn’t really hear a difference. I have not compared them as speaker cables. Last week, I re-installed my 7awg tinned copper Western Electric peak... | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions So you all got me interested in Grimm again and I reached out to them and asked whether they were considering developing a streamer type product. John-Paul Lizars replied that their goal of the MU1/MU2 was to offer "a self contained solution to d... | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions @jonwolfpell @antigrunge2 - Thanks for the feedback. That is the type of support I am looking for and that I remember from when I was using the DX3. I believe you are much more likely to have proactive and responsive support from the compan... | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions So, for all of you Innuos owners, how active are they on updates and how responsive is their support if you need it? | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions @antigrunge2 Are you suggesting either the ZENith Mk3 or the ZEN Mk3 along with the Phoenix USB reclocker? I noticed Antipodes did go from their separate EX/CX to the one box Oladra or K50 solutions. I really liked using the DX3 and would con... | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions Wow, what a great thread. Thank you for the responses everyone. Based on what I have read, the Innuos Pulsar and Sonore Signature Rendu SE Optical remain strong choices in the $5-8K range, along with the Auralic Aries G2.2. One drawback with th... | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions Thanks everyone, so far. @joc3021 - I am glad to hear you have had good luck with the Pulsar. I have heard several times that the SQ from Innuos' own Sense app is better than from Roon. Do you know if there would be a way to toggle between Roo... | |
| Streamer Comparison and Suggestions @nekoaudio I have looked at the Lumin line up and was interested in the U2 mini, especially with the option of removing the SMPS and changing over to an exterior LPS. However, I could not find anywhere on their website the voltage or amperage o... | |
| "Hardly Used / Less than 100 Hours / Took out for pics only"???? I have a high end DAC for sale right now. One month’ish old with full transferrable warranty (minus the month). New condition, except it has been played for a couple of weeks. I received it from the dealer as part of a trade of another DAC I owned... | |
| Effects of concrete as base for subs, speakers and potentially equipment I limited my earlier response to your question about using custom concrete slabs and did not address the floor. The wider the slabs, the greater the improvement by spreading the load over a larger area, but @o_holter is correct that gains can be m... |