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new to streaming- help!
Some streamers have built in dacs which either can be connected with Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Also when I bought my Auralic, they recommend even a certain router for streaming, so you won’t lose on the high speed data.  
Power conditioners and power regeneration
After reading everything, I’m still a little confused. How can you safely daisy chain a ups with a power conditioner?   
Power conditioners and power regeneration
Well, Jerry I guess among all the interference against us audiophiles, I have a dedicated line with a conditioner. So at least the voltage won’t be killing things. The other avenue I may try if I can find one to handle both my amps, is a ups. The ... 
Power conditioners and power regeneration
Thx, I compared the aq pq2 which is like a conditioner power strip, with my elite20 power factor, which you know has the reserve tank in there, but if I remember correctly, the elite 20 shuts down with low voltage as well as high voltage, the aq o... 
Audio / Stereo Rack
I built mine out of threaded rod, super strut, and 1.5 inch butcher block. The racks are solid as a rock.   
Monster m 850 cable upgrades
Thx eurorack and ghdprentice, I see the difference in cables. For my 2channel for sure, but in the meantime I think audphile1 has a point with bluejeans and not going too crazy into a receiver especially if not heavily listening to surround discs ... 
Monster m 850 cable upgrades
Using Yamaha gear for sacd and avr and trying to stay around a grand or less.  
Monster m 850 cable upgrades
Like I said just the weight pulling on the connection from the monsters is crazy. So @soix going for the 5.1 multi channel analog output from my sacd player to the multi inputs on my receiver. I kinda hate wasting my time on this cause I love stre... 
Monster m 850 cable upgrades
How about audio quest? My monster cable are about to yank the connections out of the components  red river?  
Monster m 850 cable upgrades
Trying to connect a multi channel from sacd to receiver. Short run maybe 2ft.   
Any Present Magnepan 3.7i owner using them in a smaller listening space...
I have a 12x15 room with the 1.7s The tweeters are on the inside at 3ft and other side of speaker from front wall is 4ft. So properly placed you get awesome imaging. Make sure to use magnerisers too. Stock stands are just ok. Also you need a good ... 
Add External DAC or Upgrade to a New Streamer / DAC?
So even the Auralic all in one streamer/dac sounds good, but maybe even separate dac there would sound even better. I don’t know, anyone know about that?  
Mac Mini As A Streaming Source
Computers also introduce noise into your system. You got all the stuff running in the background with a computer, while a dedicated streamer is clean. I ran Mac mini for a time, with audrvarna, then switched to a dedicated streamer with Qobuz. Muc... 
Recommendations for against the wall high efficiency speakers
Why not hang the speakers on the wall?   Take a look at the magnepan mci—- may be very wife appealing, and is dipole.  https://magnepan.com/   
Subwoofer
Dual rel subs are a good option for filling in the mid low bass like bass guitars very well. But for the super slam of HT and organ music that you can feel, Earthquake Sound has something called the tactile transducer. When mounted under chair or ...