soix
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| Interconnects What specific improvements would you like to achieve from your current interconnects? | |
| 5k budget - streamer for Technics SU-R1000 ? The Innuos Pulse would be a great choice, or if you don’t use Roon the best Aurender unit you can afford would also be great. | |
| A good cd transport for my Chord HugoTT2 DAC with Chord M-Scaler ProJect has had significant reliability issues that are worth considering. | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off Don’t unwittingly make a fire hazard or an insurance claim hazard. Once you know folks who’ve gone through this, you develop caution by virtue of proximity. @benanders Exactly how many people do you know who’ve had a fire hazard from audio equ... | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off Contrary to some other comments about power cycling, that’s not the main issue with solid-state amps. @aball What’s your evidence to support this? Steve McCormack advises to leave his amps on (again, not Class A SS amps) to the point when they... | |
| Breaking (burning) in new DAC First world problems. Buy a cheap pair of powered speakers you can maybe repurpose or buy some cheap tubes you can use while the DAC settles in. | |
| Help me pick some new or used speaker cables Save your money on this snake oil and use a fairly heavy duty stranded lanp cord line. Never heard any differance between most cables @stealthdeburgo Well, you’re in the vast minority here. Sorry you are apparently unable to hear differences ... | |
| A good cd transport for my Chord HugoTT2 DAC with Chord M-Scaler Jay’s Audio CDT2 Mk3 is very highly regarded… https://www.beatechnik.com/product-page/cdt2-mk3 | |
| A persistent hummmm... Try a cheater plug. | |
| on the cheap Maybe a used Bluesound Node. | |
| I Got Ants in my Pants and Need to Dance Marcus Miller’s instrumental version of Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie on Reggae Woman” is pretty funky cool. I don’t like to dance, but this one could actually get me moving given the right partner… https://youtu.be/bFPA4GNDyug?si=8njXyg2EVDRAYQy2 | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear Yesterday I listened to LPs of Aja and Gaucho back to back. I wouldn't say Gaucho was that much brighter than Aja. @drmuso I was referring to the CD version of Gaucho, which sounds like a lot of early 80s CD recordings in that it’s thin and g... | |
| Amp — Leave on or turn off Uh boy. | |
| DAC suggestion for PC I think step 1 for now, is the amp, as its my weakest link I have to imagine. Then speakers (which I had to do anyway, bringing the current ones to main floor for tv room) , then a streamer. I’d encourage you to identify your new speakers first... | |
| DAC suggestion for PC I believe the iFi Zen Stream works with Tidal and would be a big sonic upgrade from using your computer. The Zen DAC is actually a good DAC that uses Burr Brown chips that many prefer to ESS DACs as they are purported to be more “musical” soundin... |