painter24
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| Tube-Curious/Pre-amp Hey guys, Thanks so much for all of these suggestions; my bad, I should have stated, I'm in the UK and don't fancy shipping pre-loved. Saying that, the suggestions have given me some good starting points. @hilde45 thanks for the heads-up re: th... | |
| Network Acoustics Muon ethernet filtering system - Improving streaming sound quality I've had the ENO for a couple of months, feeding my Zen Mini Mkiii with Innuos LPS. It was a very nice uplift, to put it mildly. I couldn't stretch to the Muon; maybe further down the line 🤔😁 My ethernet chain is; TP-Link Archer - Cat6a 15m run ... | |
| How Did Your First Audiophile Experience Impact Your Audio Journey? I started off with one of those Pioneer all in one systems/stacks when I started work in my late teens/late 80s, early 90s. Apart from cheap record players and tape players though my childhood and early teens. The Pioneer I thought was the bees k... | |
| Atoll IN200SE Integrated Amplifier @malibu457 Hi, I have the Atoll IN200 Signature; I've had it since July this year. I haven't compared directly, but I did have the Rega Elex-r on home trial in Summer '21 when I was putting together my new system. The Rega wasn't for me, a... | |
| Cen. Grand DSDAC 1.0 (vs Pontus II) Yep, I think I'll swerve Cen. Grand for now; just not enough to go on. The distributor says he's sold a few of the higher tier versions after taking them to a clients home, and the units have stayed with the client. There is a Chinese site, look... | |
| How To Connect a DAC? @tcotruvo if you intend sticking with the Node 3/N130, regardless of whether you decide to add an external DAC, I would recommend modding the power supply as someone else suggested. Even if you eventually bypass the Node's DAC, the power supply st... | |
| Enough noise reduction? @bgpoppab check out NRG Custom Cables in Canada. Hand made to order, but won't break the bank. I have the. 1CS feeding my distribution block. It gave a nice little boost to clarity/noise floor (reduction) in my set up. | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES Until around 2 months ago I was using a modded Node N130 as a Roon endpoint, streaming Qobuz and Tidal. I moved to an Innuos Zen Mini Mkiii, tried that as a Roon Core - it seemed hellbent on downsampling almost everything I played (my DAC is capab... | |
| Comments on NODE 3 Power Supply Upgrade I upgraded the Node N130 with the PD Creative internal PCB, but also bought the PD Creative PSU. I've now sold this all, and changed streamers. I can't say I observed a rise in the treble, but did notice a significant drop in the noise floor. I ... | |
| Innuos Zenith MK3/ Roon I bought a zen mini mkiii recently and tried it as a Roon Core, but Roon auto-down sampled without a way that I could find to stop it doing this. In the end I reverted to the Innuos OS and Sense, which is great, sounds very nice. | |
| Sad songs- We love them- We need them In memory of Mimi Parker of one of my favourite bands, Low, who sadly passed away this week. God Bless ❤️ | |
| DAC's and the Two Ground Loop Types @erik_squires Hi Eric, I bought these from Amazon a while back; they are not manufactured for audio, more an installation product to protect against surges/lightning strikes. Made a very subtle difference in clarity for me. There is a review out t... | |
| Silver Speaker Cables @akg_ca the Alan Shaw extract is interesting, and brings to mind the speaker cables I bought from NRG Custom Cables in Canada. Nawaz who owns the company seems to follow a similar philosophy; the more metal/conductor, the better. I've had his 6:6... | |
| Silver Speaker Cables @charles1dad thanks for that; what I'm hearing is very encouraging. Best analogy I can make, is looking at a child's normal picture book, then looking at the same picture book, but now it's the 3D pop-up version 😊 if that makes sense. | |
| Silver Speaker Cables I've had the Lavri Grand RCA ICs in my system for nearly 2 weeks. (probably around 100hrs on them so far. They've changed in the last couple of days, they're staring to open up a bit, more back to front depth; the HFs seem a little enthusiastic at... |