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| Good measuring DACs vs. It’s personal preference, and Goodonya for trusting your own ears! | |
| Do dormant cables need "RE" Broken In? If so how long can they sit dormant? It’s pretty crazy, but when I was reviewing cables even having them outta the system for a half hour they’d need a minute or so to settle back in. Not sure about cables they’ve been sitting dormant for a while, but it’s definitely a thing IME. | |
| Cable upgrades Are you in Our Home and Native Land? Spent a lotta time in Canada vacationing and playing hockey. | |
| Cable upgrades Hifishark.com is a good site that tracks many sites including Audiogon. Here’s a link… https://www.hifishark.com/search?q=acoustic+zen New AZ products are still being sold so they must still be in business. | |
| Help needed to eliminate unwanted noise from tweeter Does the noise come from both tweeters? If so it sounds like you have a noise issue somewhere. Do you have a power conditioner? Or I guess it’s possible you have blown tweeters. That’s all I got. | |
| Cable upgrades I’ll keep an eye out for a used pair of Silver Reference IIs. Just fyi, there’s not a lotta difference between the Silver Ref l and ll — I have and still use both. The good thing is there’s a fluid market for AZ cables so you can likely try th... | |
| Help with speaker selection <$20k Sounds like you really like the Sonus Faber sound, and that’s great. I’d add Joseph Audio and Usher as two others to explore, but I’d give these a good, hard look fer sure. They’d be end-game speakers for me. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/... | |
| Cable upgrades What's your take on the selections mentioned above? I get the impression that any of them could be worthwhile test candidates. Given what you’re looking for I’d recommend the Acoustic Zen Silver Reference over the Matrix. I own the original M... | |
| Another post about a streamer upgrade If you can stretch a little this Innuos Zen is nice, and you don’t need to upgrade to a linear power supply cause it already has one, Bonus is you can load any of your prized CDs right into it. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650056614-innuo... | |
| Ripping CDs I’d say just get this and be done with it. It’s likely a better streamer, and you can just rip your CDs directly into it. Simple. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650056614-innuos-zen-mk-3/ Best of luck. | |
| Preamp headphone amplifier I have a dedicated Feliks Audio Echo MkII tube headphone amp on the way, i cant wait! Congrats! Let us know what you think if you could. | |
| Young audiophile metal head looking to level up speaker choice Your music tastes are screaming for ATC speakers. Check out their lineup and read the reviews. What you're looking for with your music is dynamics, and ATC absolutely excels at dynamics. | |
| A $250 Power Conditioner? @russter @lak Thanks for posting. Very interesting, and as audio tweaks go these seem very reasonable. | |
| Single input tube preamp Linear Tube Audio MZ2 would seem to fit the bill, but you really need to add their linear power supply to get the best from it. https://www.lineartubeaudio.com/products/mz2mz2-s | |
| Hermes DDC + Wandla DAC It’s possible the pin connections for I2S are incompatible between Hermes and your DAC. Unfortunately there currently is no standard I2S connection that hopefully will be reconciled soon. AES/EBU is a good alternative if you can’t get I2S to wor... |