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| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? I can recommend the Musetec as purchase piece, Holo May KTE great choice as well. I've seen both of these compared to much more expensive dacs, held their own or were preferred in some cases. KTE may be highest resolving R2R dac, and the Sabre 903... | |
| Future DACs with Fibre Optical @yyzsantabarbara Yep, that is correct package. I could see this Finisar as great upgrade for any fiber capable device with removable transceiver, problem is there have been instances of incompatibility. I'd estimate this upgrade to OpticalRendu at... | |
| Inexpensive but good sounding power supply (and hard drive) for PC audio? @auxinput That is correct, Euphony Version 4 is reportedly big upgrade on 3, never had 3 so can't say. I'd agree quality power supply may not make that great a difference with Windows computer, the Windows based motherboard music server I'm ru... | |
| Future DACs with Fibre Optical I doubt there is a large market for this, most dac manufacturers assume one will do all the rendering via large variety of streamers. Already not that many ethernet streaming dacs around, optical users likely a small minority of that minority. Sti... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @agisthos I understand that, simply can't find this ability to assign speed to individual ports. I have pretty good knowledge of Netgear interface, even in advanced settings don't see this ability. In any case, the only reason I could imagine this... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers @agisthos Just for curiosities sake I looked for ability to assign these setting to ports, didn't see this in my Netgear router. Regardless, I hear better SQ with 500mb vs 300, 1gb may soon be tried. But then I'm running JCAT Net XE in my streamer... | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? Having a conscious here is not about guilt, its about being mindful that most of us here live privileged lives. Keeping mindful of that tends to make one more humble, empathic and happy, one not always comparing themselves to those who have it bet... | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? @dweller This is true, but the vast, vast majority of my vinyl was purchased when a typical album sold for between $3-$10, and many were gifted by people leaving vinyl behind. | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? I do like the idea of changing out dac, but it seems dac delivers things he likes, just not with one streamer. The fact so many happy with both Innuos and Aurender servers under review here makes me want to think issue is elsewhere. I suppose ... | |
| DC blockers - what's your experience I had major problem with transformer hum that lasted for years, this along with over voltage issue(124-126v). Never could get rid of transformer hum, bucking transformer for the over voltage. Suddenly one day I come home no more transformer hum, v... | |
| What is the current retail cost of your reference system? I quit estimating value when I reached $100k, my conscious can bother with this obscene level of conspicuous consumption. And the level of OCD to put it all together, bizarro world! And then we can approach this from another angle, one can spe... | |
| Why didn't I sell my vinyl rig? Estimations of vinyl vs digital superiority is so well reflected in this thread. The variability is great enough that hard and fast conclusions ridiculous. Both setups can be as simple or as complex as one wants to make it, trying to assemble a si... | |
| Took the lithium ion battery plunge How well one of these battery packs performs compared to AC depends on quality of AC supplying system. No conditioning, battery wins, AC somewhat optimized,battery may or may not win, fully optimized AC, AC wins IME. I've looked inside some of th... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev How much streamers change in future is hard to say, streamer innovations do come fast. I demoed a variety of power conditioners year ago using Cable Co. lending library. All top of line variety, Shunyata, PS Audio, Audience Adept, none g... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers I doubt very much that hardware compatibility issue, like to see what ISP they're using. With 500mb speed, actually typically around 550 at router absolutely no issues. At some point I may decide to experiment with 1gb, see what that brings to tab... |