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| Do I need a streamer? There are means to get nice sound out of computers such as mac mini but requires much diy effort. I used three different iteration of mini's over the years, last one provided very nice sound quality, no complaints, could have lived with that one f... | |
| Boutique caps in oil... reliable? Only issue I've had with oil caps over many years was Jensen copper foil in Cary amp, well known issue with those caps. Duelund CAST is now my preference by large margin vs others. | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp I've used most of the caps mentioned here and have found the Duelund Cast, in my case tinned copper version relegates every other cap to a distant second place, really special cap, future plans for going into my speaker crossovers as well. I also... | |
| The character of analog and digital With recent upgrades in streaming setup...still in evaluation phase, I'm finding both more and less uniformity in digital recordings. More in the sense I don't hear major differences between 16/44 and various degrees of up and over sampling. Less ... | |
| JCAT PC Cards I'm in process of discovery via new streamer. Using network xe card at present, next will be usb xe. Will be comparing vs motherboard ports as I go along. Have no doubt JCAT cards will be far superior, advantages of better power supplies and filte... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... Many if not most off the shelf streamers cannot run HQPlayer dsp, not enough processing power. Probably my single greatest issue with off the shelf is this lacking. Most have chosen low power processors, their means to achieving low noise platform... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... @milpai I'd suggest doing trial with Euphony Version 4 OS for Windows platform. Run Stylus music player and compare with present setup. | |
| Optical Isolation @navyachts The Allo would take the place of OpticalRendu, performs same function. Allo uses coax out to dac, OR goes with usb to dac. Optical isolation may or may not be best solution for every situation so don't assume you need OR for quality str... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... It is possible to modify pc and get pretty nice sound, with some research and a modicum of skills possible to get there. Greatest problems with Windows platforms, Windows OS and power supplies. Even the Windows optimizing OS software doesn't turn ... | |
| Zavfino Just ordered the Gold Rush, couldn't resist with present promotion. | |
| Zavfino Has anyone heard the Highland MkII or Gold Rush phono cables? | |
| Optical Isolation @navyachts I have no experience with etherRegen. This is what I can say in regard to coax. In early days of streaming ran long ethernet cable from ISP modem to router (my internet service inlet in dedicated listening room). I then experimented wit... | |
| Upsampling, Can there be too much? @erik_squires has it correct, I've experienced this. @adasdad looks like he's found the answer for basic chain with similar setup. I no longer pay attention to over sampling up sampling, whatever, 16/44 is just fine, and with your Aurender t... | |
| Streamed music sounds awful in my system and I don't know why .... You can modify the pc diy route as some above have mentioned, you can also go lower, medium grade off the shelf streamer, and then there are top of line streamers. My choice is top of line streamer budget allowing. Streams should be virtually indi... | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming @goofyfoot I'd spend the $3600 you mentioned on streaming setup, amazing sound quality possible and library of music available nearly limitless. The most difficult thing is choosing which components to purchase within your budget. Funny thing ... |