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| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming This is why I've kept audio journal for twenty plus years, document every change. This has been extremely beneficial in moving forward rather than constant lateral or circular movement. Allows one to systematically build system with strong foundat... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @ I used one of early PSAudio regenerators many years ago, ended up much preferring my transformer based PC. Mine was one of the lower power PS, used only on front end components. Perhaps the newer PSAudio devices much better than previous generat... | |
| Nucleus, is there a better alternative? You are correct, that's why they have audiophile switches, supposed to limit noise. I did try audiophile switch, preferred router with no switch, router powered with lps. Guess I'm lucky with no need of switch in my setup, why add another componen... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid @theaudioamp I had forgotten about dc offset issue which I did know about at the time, this was many years ago when I had the issue. | |
| Nucleus, is there a better alternative? Sonore OpticalRendu and OpticalModule no longer available, They are having to be redesigned due to chip shortages, I have OpticalModule on order for perhaps two month, who knows how much longer wait. @emergingsoul FMC does BLOCK noise at poin... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid My equipment was not happy with a consistent 123-125V I was getting for years, transformers humming, can't be good for transformers. I finally built bucking transformer to be rid of the constant humming. I did suffer both microwave oven and fu... | |
| Turn an Intel macmini into a music server @jgoldrick Good catch, forgot about that issue with some RP | |
| Nucleus, is there a better alternative? @au_lait If I had fiber ethernet service I'd at least try all fiber, only downside is not as much equipment to choose from vs. ethernet. The entire streaming chain affects files/rips on NAS or internal storage, just as it does with dsp. | |
| Nucleus, is there a better alternative? @au_lait NAS vs internal storage, same deal with wide variety of opinions. Internal storage creates more noise within server, should really have separate power supply, maximum isolation for optimal results. NAS has it's own noise issues and requir... | |
| Nucleus, is there a better alternative? Optical better than ethernet, no mass consensus, much variety of opinion. Unless you have optical internet provider, ethernet somewhere in chain, wish I had choice so could compare full chain of both. After fair bit of experimentation, prefer ethe... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid Funny you ask this @scott22. I long saw potential of going off grid, so back in 1998 I purchased N.E.W. DCA66, 60wpc class A SS amp that ran off 4 lead acid wheelchair batteries. Batteries supplied the entire 60 watts, charger, everything self con... | |
| Paypal...buyer protection fees didnt help me The bench break down would have only been helpful to @missioncoonery if manufacturer had determined issue existed prior to shipping. I doubt an undetermined cause would have changed things one iota. @missioncoonery It seems no all is lost in ... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming Yep, its usually the case several incremental upgrades result in an overall large upgrade. I nearly always do A>B>A comparisons to confirm I'm hearing what I think I'm hearing, especially with streaming. I've done a fair amount of experiment... | |
| Nucleus, is there a better alternative? Certainly the Nucleus can be beaten, many custom builds will have faster processors, superior RAM than off the shelf items. NUC's can be pretty off the shelf or more diy. Actually, my preferred choice for bang for buck is diy custom build. In very... | |
| Owning Up To It I've been to literally, thousands of concerts over my life, including some of the bands mentioned on this thread, can't recall a single incident of a really bad concert. Some didn't live up to my expectations, but not what I'd call bad. Since ... |