painter24
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| Left RCA out on DAC not working @jea48 HI, thanks for your reply. The AECO plugs have no metal on the plug shrouds inside, apart from the pin, whatsoever. The Lavri/AECO work perfectly. With other ICs, that have metallic shrouds, the left channel just doesn't work. The right ch... | |
| Cen. Grand DSDAC 1.0 (vs Pontus II) @soix thanks for your kind words; extremely generous 😊👍 | |
| Lack of Female Representation @toro3 i had a similar experience at my local HiFi dealer in Summer'21 when I went to audition equipment for my return to Hifi after 20 odd years out of the hobby. I couldn't drive at the time, so my partner (soon to be wife😊) had to drive me; I ... | |
| Cen. Grand DSDAC 1.0 (vs Pontus II) Thanks @soix 👍 Christmas was busier than I envisaged, so didn't get to spend as much time with the new DAC as I would have liked, but I did squeeze some listening in. Apart from the observations I've already highlighted, I'm starting to hear a w... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? MQA was not really a solution for a problem that didn't exist; to my mind, it was a thinly veiled, cynical attempt to ring fence and monopolise the streaming market. It was never about giving the end user a superior listening experience. | |
| Cen. Grand DSDAC 1.0 (vs Pontus II) Quick update on my OP; I did place an order with the importer/distributor, but not for the Pontus II. I ordered the base (Standard model) Cen. Grand DSDAC 1.0, it arrived yesterday Just some early observations: Build quality - nice and solid, we... | |
| Tube-Curious/Pre-amp Wow, thanks for all the time spent replying to my OP, genuinely appreciated. I think I need to do more reading and research - lots of brands suggested I had no previous awareness of. First decision I think will be pre-amp, or additional tube inte... | |
| 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... |