romney80
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| going from tube preamp to solid state As everyone else here, I have been through this journey with fairly intense involvement (I mean spending on average at least 3-4 hours every day) and making changes (after careful research, audition, discussion) over period of 4 years to ultimatel... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @clive101 I also have Finistar and they do uplift quite a lot from regular ones. From my understanding Melco S-100 and Telegartner M12 switch are top echelons in the network switch category. I would love to hear people who have Melco S-100 or M-... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @clive101 Thanks. Yes, once you start this route, it is a rabbit hole but you will find the journey very revealing, exciting (with some frustrations and hiccups in between) but will get you were you want. I have tried etheregen, sotm, English e... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @audphile1 good to hear your assessment. I have gone a great deal in this and everything matters, including a separate 20 amp line, wall socket, power cables, ethernet wire, ethernet switch, SFP module. Some are small improvements and some are big... | |
| A new (huge) R2R high end DAC in town I know this old post. But I could not stop but post this to complement this amazing DAC. I bought Kassandra II ref with Incito S preamp from Aries Cerat. I have tried a bunch of DACs (Mola mola, Luxman D-10X, Esoteric K-01XD with master clock, Nai... | |
| Audience SX2/Front Row Cables...has anyone tried or heard much of this new reference line? I have tried Audience AU24SX power cable (high current to power power conditioner) and they were so good, I upgraded to front row power cable and I am keeping them. Will not change. Then I tried audience front row XLR (b/w pre-amp and amp), it w... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @romanesq that is some serious improvement in your system. I will be honest, I have spent quite a bit on components (a lot), but still, to date the best bang for buck (by big margin) has been fiber optic in digital chain. It might not be for every... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @txp1 Not sure I had experienced like you. I had almost immediate improvement. Give it time and see if it changes better. | |
| GIK Vicoustic and others I have both GIK and Vicoustics. Vicsoustics is >>>> GIK. They are expensive, but worth it. If not anything, get multifuser DC3 in between the speakers on front wall. That will be the biggest change. Rest you can manage based on budget ... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @dbb I am really glad you tried and worked. Sometimes people are used to digital noise and they might not like it when using fiber optic because of “change” but at least it is least expensive way to try in expensive hobby. Once you get used to noi... | |
| 聖HIJIRI Users thread I have Combax Hijiri million Kiwami IC (RCA). The way I can describe them is "extremely musical, very open, organic". It just seems natural with no specific emphasis on any spectrum of sound. This cable is unlike any other cables in my system. The... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @fmzip i am glad you tried and worked. Digital “noise” is more than we imagine. We don’t know unless we hear “minimizing the noise”. Since my last post, I have done a bit more in the digital chain. Router > sotm with cat 7 > ethergen with fi... | |
| Skogrand Cables? I am using Skogrand Tchaikovsky speaker cables and Skogrand Werner power cables. They are amazing cables. Best in PRAT. Got it used. Otherwise very expensive. For me they are end game cables in my system (along with Hemingway Z core beta, Echole O... | |
| Esoteric Question - is the new Grandioso K1x that much better than the Esoteric K-01xd ? I have k-01xd which is CD player with dac. N-01xd is network player with streamer (which is not what I have). with regard to network switch, yes, having 2-3 switches makes it better. I had tried with single and then went up with benefit each step... | |
| Esoteric Question - is the new Grandioso K1x that much better than the Esoteric K-01xd ? I have been using Esoteric K-01XD with G-02X master clock since past 3-4 days. The improvement is definitely not subtle. It is not going to make jaw dropping change: that is not what it is meant. Simple way of summarizing is that it makes good cha... |