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| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? @cleeds Actually, I recall seeing noise measurements ethernet vs fiber somwhere, was cited by post on some thread here. My use of objective was directed towards near universal consensus of individuals hearing lower noise floor with fiber. I als... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? Lowered noise floor is likely the first thing one will notice with insertion of fiber, this will generally be an objective finding. If one is comparing to an optimal ethernet setup it may be difficult to discern a difference here. With my present... | |
| Emission Labs Tube Warranty Problems While sound quality of tubes of critical importance, who you purchase them from is also of critical importance. When I was having issues with 101D tubes, took risk and purchased some top echelon tubes from China based seller, twice I had issues wi... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC As with any highly resolving/transparent dac with excellent usb implementation usb cables will make substantial difference. Having said that I've not heard major differences with taping off power pins. I only continue doing it in order to cross al... | |
| Sonore Opticalrendu vs Auralic Aries G1.1 Agreed, need top flight LPS to hear full potential. | |
| Emission Labs Tube Warranty Problems First EML 300B failures I've heard of, and I've been observing for a long time. @plga Lower heater voltage is NOT cause of that tube failure. I lowered the heater voltage on my Coincident Statement pre based on recommendation of owner/designe... | |
| Break In Failed I've used the face to face, out of phase blanket method, very effective. Present speakers make that pretty much impossible, so I've just listened through break in, unless something seriously off break in shouldn't be that difficult. Most noticeab... | |
| Aurender to Roon Core? Latik is correct in that Roon and the other music players each have unique sound qualities. I have multiple choices available to me at present, Stylus which is Euphony's proprietary player, HQPLayer and Roon, each has unique settings and sound qua... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? Be sure to try LPS with at least last FMC before passing judgment, lps on both even better. The lps insures the garbage emanating from the FMC will be eliminated, switch mode power supplies injecting the noise. I also mentioned the Sonore optical... | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? @soix + Resolution, transparency not the most difficult aspect of sound quality to achieve with streaming. Yes, noise, both external and self generated can enter at many points, but even with less than best streamers relatively high resolutio... | |
| Hi-Fi and the Folly of Perfection As mentioned or alluded to above, we have the ability to mitigate desire and/or enjoy the process. As they say, perfection is the enemy of the good. | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl Humans have the ability, or is it need to believe just about anything, many spend entire lifetimes defending those beliefs. Invention of social media seems to have greatly increased numbers of people living by zero sum game rules, apparently excit... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? Yep, you have correct connection protocol. If going fiber route do linear power supply for at least last FMC, lps for both best. Also may want to consider moving to Sonore OpticalModule and OpticalRendu vs the generic, well worth the premium. I'd ... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? OP stated he had $1k budget. Best results for that budget would be either fiber conversion or Eno filter if staying with ethernet. The good thing about going this route is both remain effective even as rest of streaming setup improved. | |
| Hi-Fi and the Folly of Perfection @grauerbar Good post! I'll admit to similar feelings at certain points in building systems over now nearly thirty years. There were times when the cost in form of funds and audiophile angst seemed excessive for the value of sound quali... |