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| Nowhere to hear speakers and amps anymore! Hey listen, if you live out in the hinterlands or the way outer burbs Goodonya! There are huge benefits to that. But then don’t complain that you have no high-end audio stores. You chose that life/location and as a result you don’t have the best r... | |
| Choosing Inexpensive Headphone Cable and Other Possible Modifications Wondering if I can buy off the spool and then terminate the ends myself? No, you can’t. Good luck doing whatever you’re looking for. | |
| Hegel H390 DAC I neglected to mention in my OP that I was hoping to go with something US or Euro made and furthermore, one that I can return if necessary. Yes, you completely neglected to mention that. I’d always assumed any DAC I’d own would be r2r/NOS ... | |
| Choosing Inexpensive Headphone Cable and Other Possible Modifications These are excellent cables at a very reasonable price… https://www.lavricables.com/cables/ultimate-silver-hifiman-sundara-upgrade-cable You obviously also need a good headphone amp so you need to budget for that too. Of course you have to like t... | |
| Hegel H390 DAC Hard to see something like the Denafrips Terminator not being an improvement. At your price level you could feed it i2S from a Denafrips Hermes and be even better off. https://www.vinshine.audio/product-page/denafrips-terminator-r2r-dac If an... | |
| Nowhere to hear speakers and amps anymore! The disappearance of retail stores has been supplemented with the emergence of a vibrant online used market. Do your research and buy used smartly, and if it doesn’t work out turn around and sell it for little/no loss. In some ways it’s almost b... | |
| DACed and Confused here... I've used the Apple Camera connector for an old iPhone while listening to background internet radio, sounded ok for it's purpose but it recently died. I looked up the Lavri cable you recommend but it doesn't say anywhere if you can power a dev... | |
| Streamer to Denafrips Iris to Pontus need cable suggestions please Yes, go with the 0.5m cable if at all possible and that’s the shortest they offer. | |
| Room Correction Required Thanks for the info is your Lyngdorf opinion based on experience? I got to hear TacT gear, which I think was Lyngdorf’s initial foray into audio/room correction, in both a home system and at a show and in both instances the performance was amaz... | |
| Need an amp upgrade suggestion..... But not the usual upgrade request :-) What amp are you using now, and what specific improvements are you looking for? | |
| Room Correction Required I’d go with the Lyngdorf for their room correction prowess, but I’d buy one used like this just in case it doesn’t do what you’re looking for so you can minimize losses if it comes to that. https://www.ebay.com/itm/186195202553 Best of luck in... | |
| power amp ideas for less than $3000 Here’s another excellent amp in your price range… https://www.ebay.com/itm/145476002357 | |
| What cabling to connect my MacBook Pro headphone jack to the TOS input of my Emotiva ERC-4 Yeah, that’s not gonna work for many reasons. Unfortunately your Emotiva doesn’t have a USB input, which limits your possibilities. You’re better off getting a dedicated streamer that outputs SPDIF (RCA, not TOSLINK) that you can then plug into ... | |
| There is none out there...... You needn’t limit yourself to a Wi-Fi connection. You can get a Wi-Fi extender or Mesh system and go hardwired from that to your streamer via an Ethernet cable, and many have found this connection to sound much better than using Wi-Fi alone, whic... | |
| Streamer to Denafrips Iris to Pontus need cable suggestions please DH Labs makes good, high-value cables that don’t break the bank. Here is a good USB cable you can use from the Aurender to the Iris and an HDMI cable you can use from the Iris to the Pontus to take advantage of its i2S connection. BTW, you want ... |