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| Thoughts on a system upgrade. I agree you system is nice and well balanced. I think you could go after the Bluejeans and Pangea cables. I have no experience with Pangea but I had Bluejeans XLR interconnects and while they are better than stock and a great value it was easy t... | |
| Want to setup basic home audio system https://www.psaudio.com/products/sprout100-elac-system/Get a USB adaptor for you iphone and feed it Tidal or Qobuz or buy a streamer like https://www.bluesound.com/products-archive/vault-2/ or a used one for less and you are set. Then upgrade the... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice There are good points about how much tube power you will need for your speakers. They may not be a good match. High power tube amps can be noisy, of course there are very quiet well made tube amps with 50 watts or more but well made and quiet te... | |
| Help with DAC and Streamer suggestions Source matters. With Tidal I think you should to upgrade the network and cables to get the most from your DAC. I upgraded to a Terminator and Innuos Statement for DAC and streamer but they didn't sound good with Tidal or Qobuz until I upgraded m... | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? I had a Freya not the plus. I thought it was noisy even with XLR cables. To me the sound was a bit grainy. But for the price it gets you into tubes and it gave me no trouble. I liked the remote, it worked will and when I lost mine it was cheap... | |
| Setting up a Mac mini as a music server, and other digital music questions Get the most from your DAC, buy a purpose built music server. The better the server the better you DAC will sound. Something like https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/audio-server/products/sonictransporter-i5?variant=20893269764 get... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Steve attempts to crystallise the somewhat nebulous feeling that climbing the ladder to the high-end might be a counter productive endeavour. Kind of like the Heisenberg principle, the closer you look the worse it looks.To the lucky few who g... | |
| Ethernet cable question fastfreight-Sorry I lost this thread. This is confusing to me also. The cable is https://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english/portfolio-item/dcbl-cat7/. I have 2 of the cat7 cables. I also have a https://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english/portf... | |
| Qobuz or Tidal? edcyn-I agree the gear can make the difference. I just made 3 changes today and that changed my preference of Tidal or Qobuz. First I added a Chord English Electric 8switch between my Etherregen and the wall. The 8Switch was a huge change all p... | |
| Qobuz or Tidal? Interesting. I have both and had never listened carefully to compare. There is a difference with Redbook. To me Qobuz is a bit euphonic and heavy sounding. I like Qobuz at low volumes but Tidal is cleaner at higher spl.I go back and forth on M... | |
| Ethernet cable question I dont know much about ethernet cables but I do have experience with using them and the cable between the wall and router making an improvement. I used the SoTM cable with the filter between the wall and a SoTM router, it was a big improvement ov... | |
| Power Cables diminishing returns I have found the Wywire Platinum to be the sweet spot for me. If i can get them used all the better. | |
| I think some cables are just a little too expensive. @mikelavigne Thanks for throwing some perspective. I fantasize about owning certain gear I will never own, usually pre-amps and DACs. I will reserve some dream-time for cables. | |
| Lumin X1 or U1 + PS Audio DSD DAC The last Innuos update has made Experimental Mode much more stable. I rarely have drop outs and the benefit in SQ is worth it. | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Too lazy to unload the gear I upgraded from. Lots of cables, reclockers, power supplies, tube pre amps, phone pre amps, music servers a CD player I used for a month. I have big plastic bins full of stuff. My better half is telling me to get ri... |