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| Gustard R26 @soix Three reasons. 1) The Raspberry Pi endpoint might be the weak point in my streaming setup so directly connecting the LAN to the R26 was attractive. 2) The Iris is incompatible with the I2S pinout of the R26 so that mode of connection is un... | |
| Gustard R26 @whart I'm guessing @sgreg1 is referring to the thread at Head-Fi which is almost 2300 posts long. Many of the posts are fairly technical so that might be a better place to ask your question about DSD. I'm looking forward to seeing how the R26... | |
| Gustard R26 @whart I have the X26 Pro and took advantage of the Black Friday Sale to buy the R26 which came Thursday. I hooked it up to my LAN and Roon recognized it without any problems. I burned it in for about 36 hours before I listened to it this evenin... | |
| Aric Audio Custom 300b PSET Congrats on your amp. I have an Aric Audio Super 300B SET which has been a revelation. It has been a little easier to do some tube rolling since there are only two 300B tubes. In increasing order of preference are JJ 300Bs tied with TJ Full Mus... | |
| Bottlehead moreplay vs Audio research reference 5se (early impressions) The Moreplay is a seriously good preamp for the money. I like my Cary SLP-05 better but the Moreplay was close to my PS Audio BHK preamp. If you upgrade the capacitors and do a little tube rolling it gets even better than the stock kit. As the ... | |
| Any Near Audiophile Bluetooth Speaker? These sounded very good at the Pacific Audio Fest | |
| Isolation Springs Deal You may cringe but I have these under Tekton Moabs and haven't had any problems. People that are concerned about the oscillation usually place ear plugs into the springs to damp them but I haven't done that. | |
| SQ difference XLR vs RCA ? RCA and XLR connections can and do sound differently. I have a Gustard X26 Pro DAC that supports simultaneous RCA and XLR outputs. I connect them using Harmonic Tech Pro Silway RCA and XLR cables to a PS Audio BHK Preamp which drives a 2A3 tube... | |
| Best SET power amp below $5,000 I have a Dennis Had Universal SET, the Aric Audio Super 300B SET, and an Arte Forma Aida 2A3 amp. I thought I was in heaven with the Aric Audio Super 300B SET but there is something about the 2A3 tube sound that has kept me coming back to that Ar... | |
| OMG. What now? For a long time I was happy going straight from the DAC to the amp. I had tried various preamps and found they might add some color to the sound but didn't improve it. Then a friend brought over an ancient Cary SLP-70 preamp that had been extens... | |
| Which would you choose for good sounding tube preamp for an audiophile new to tubes. I have an Elekit TU-8500 Preamp on USAudiomart that I would be happy to sell for $400. | |
| Which would you choose for good sounding tube preamp for an audiophile new to tubes. The Bottlehead Moreplay kit is $439. Sound is fantastic with the stock tubes but if you add good NOS 6V6 tubes and upgrade the coupling capacitors it gets even better. I mostly can't tell it apart from my PS Audio BHK preamp. I have also used t... | |
| New review of PS Audio's new speaker I agree, the measurements seem to be at odds with how they describe the speakers sounding. But, if you look at the measurements for other speakers they have reviewed, that roll off below 100 Hz seems to be the norm except for the Wilson Audio Ale... | |
| Linlai E 6sn7 tubes All of this back and forth about whether or not the tubes without the Global branding are counterfeit or in some way inferior seems kind of nuts to me. The simplest and most likely explanation is that the tubes are in fact identical, exactly as t... | |
| Grant Fidelity Treasure Globe 6SN7 SE @markusthenaimnut You don't say what your preamp is, but in my experience rolling dozens of tubes across a half dozen amps and preamps there is simply no question in my mind that different tubes sound differently and some tubes sound much better. ... |