rms456

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Which Ethernet filter?
@bigby  The DX filters work very well ahead of the EtherRegen in my system. For a very modest price, there's a lift in soundstage height and clearer more defined separation of vocals and instruments.  Highly recommended  .  
Etheregen - doesn't seem right that it gets so hot, dangerous? Unpredictable?
Recently undergoing a lounge renovation, the audio system was dismantled including the EtherRegen.  I found with great difficulty to unplug the Ethernet cable, the jack had a distorted plastic case and wouldn't disconnect.  Spent several minutes t... 
Tron Atlantic dac disrupts both Audiophile and The Audiophile’s Wife.
Nice looking DAC, at this price point, two omissions come to mind. XLR outputs missing No mention of a level attenuator Defacto standard is 2V for CD players for quite some time, some tube/valve, even solid state amps are at 0.775V, so an atten... 
Roon vs Audirvāna or other
Audirvana has the best sound I found, and that's on a very modest office system that differences can be heard compared to Jriver. Audirvana is vey slow to scan network drives for changes, pity the engine can't be used with another server program.... 
Getting him in my ARC PH3se phono pre
Consider induction from cables in the wall or worst case induction from motors through the platter. 
Audirvana vs Roon
I don't use Audirvana every day, yesterday fired up the latest version on a Win10 PC, UpNP to a Lumin U1.Took about 15-20 minutes to sync the library adding some 50 albums or so, mainly redbook, nothing happens until the sync has stopped. The rece... 
Low hum from amp
When did this start? 
Higher End DACs
@djones51It is some effort to design audio equipment on the first place,  and the product is made as an island. There. The specs are published as if the device wasn't connected to anything other than a power supply. When the device is connected to...