mitch2
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| Review on Linear Tube Audio Aero DAC The LTA Aero arrived today. Unfortunately, the Merason DAC 1 MkII has been held up in customs only two hours from me for a week now. The LTA Aero was extremely well-packaged and super easy to set up. It sounds good right out of the gate. Very ... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? If Furutech, WBT et al start making $500 Speakon connectors, they may yet become the audiophile standard. Are you in marketing? What a great idea! Create a new "audiophile standard" that almost nobody currently uses so that almost everybody w... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Tedeschi Trucks Band, August 10, 2024, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo Margo Price opened. This is definitely one I would not miss. The 11-person band was excellent and it was fun to see Tyler Greenwell and JJ Johnson on two drum kits - Allman Brothers... | |
| Are all streamers the same? @jji666 makes a good point about there being a difference between a server and a streamer. In the Roon world, the server operates Roon Core and selects and/or stores music files while the streamer (or Roon endpoint) interfaces with a DAC. All se... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? @terry9 - The observation was not about allowing your connections to become corroded, which is never a good thing, but rather the irony that a group who mostly believe that every small detail can significantly impact the sound of a system would se... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? True, there are exceptions, but almost always the “flagship” model at a high price. The Audioquest you mention, Furutech 202 series, Neotech NC-01675RH and maybe a couple of others are copper or have a copper center pin, but the majority are bras... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Wow, that Musetec MH-DA006 Flagship DAC is a nice looking DAC with a great looking display, well regarded component choices like Mundorf and Duelund caps, and good specs like total harmonic distortion + noise < -120dB, and dynamic range > 12... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? Based on the discussion here, more seem to prefer banana connectors than spades. I find that interesting in that banana connectors are almost always made from a much less conductive metal than copper due to the inherent lower stiffness of copper... | |
| DAC options to consider for Innuos streamer What is your price range? | |
| Want to build a rack with sandwich layered dampening Some interesting responses and certainly more than one way to skin the cat (no cats were harmed during the writing of this post). The gatorboard I recommended was a material used by some of us back in the day and patterned off of the foam used by... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? I have never had the loosening issue with spades that is being reported here, and I do check them from time to time. @carlsbad2 - When I use banana connectors, my strong preference is for a minimalist BFA style banana plug - these first, and th... | |
| DAC options to consider for Innuos streamer Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC. Simply unbeatable. I understand why some would think so, and I would not argue that it should be on a "must hear" list, but this stuff is all about "the ear of the beholder." I owned a Tambaqui and would describe the so... | |
| DAC options to consider for Innuos streamer I had decided to purchase the Pulsar but fell into a good opportunity on a Sonore Signature Rendu SE Optical. Those two, along with Auralic’s ARIES G2.2, were at the top of my streamer list. Like the Signature Rendu, the Pulsar only outputs USB. ... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? I like spades because I perceive better contact area from a properly positioned and compressed spade and because spades are more readily available in high conductivity materials like copper, which is generally considered too soft for the structura... | |
| Want to build a rack with sandwich layered dampening Take a look at Gator Board (i.e., gatorfoam, or foam board) for your sandwiched damping layer. It comes in various sizes and thicknesses. |