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| Centers - Go big or go home Very interesting! Always love hearing new thoughts/info like this, especially when it’s born out of actual hands-on experience and based on something real. Can’t wait to hear more! | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? What a great system! Congrats!!! I’ve heard Ralph @atmasphere say here many times that if components follow the “balanced standard” (that I think he may have a patent for) the differences between interconnects becomes basically nonexistent and t... | |
| How important are spikes? @emergingsoul There’s not one thing you said that I agree with. Not one. | |
| XLR cables for a reasonable price? I would like some recommendations on reasonably priced XLR cables that give excellent sonic performance. “Excellent sonic performance” doesn’t really help as we all hear and value certain sonic traits differently. What specific sonic charact... | |
| Ifi Zen Stream with Tidal Connect Frustration I have tickets open with Ifi but no clear explanation so far. Yeah, iFi customer support is basically non existent so don’t hold your breath. I had a similar experience using Qobuz with mConnect+, and while it worked initially it went south i... | |
| Auralic Vega G2 or Denafrips Pontus II 12th + streamer? Great info! Given what you’re looking for my first thought was an R2R DAC and was gonna recommend the Pontus but you beat me to it. With your budget, and to borrow a phrase from Emeril, you can kick it up several notches by adding a DDC (like the ... | |
| System advice @thecarpathian +1. Now let’s see if he spells “base” correctly, and curious what manufacture he goes with. Ugh. | |
| Speaker Recommendations What improvements are you looking for over what you have now, and what sound characteristics are most important to you? | |
| Auralic Vega G2 or Denafrips Pontus II 12th + streamer? Highly recommend keeping them separate for all the reasons you raised and more. Put it this way — would you buy a turntable with the phono pre built in? Why not? Because they’re both critical components and just because you might like the turnt... | |
| anyone else getting phishing popups ? You just missed my last post, but I am on a Macbook running Monteray 12.6.9. Ah, thanks for that helpful info and for sharing your experience here so we’re aware. It takes a village. | |
| Advice on using a dac with my avr Several other very experienced members gave you the same feedback and advice on your previous thread on the same topic in a different category — you just apparently fail to accept or comprehend it. You know you just wanna use your AVR as a preamp,... | |
| new to streaming- help! If I am not connecting the Node X into external DAC, will I notice a difference between cd quality level and the premium (hi res) membership? Good question, and it has a lot to do with the quality of the rest of your system and if it’s resolvin... | |
| Class D amplifiers. What's the future look like? @atmasphere , From what i’ve experienced thus far, the type of stuff you do could work for guys who mostly roll with midfi (they may think it’s hifi) or don’t have a high enough "point of reference". But, that shouldn’t worry you. You could still... | |
| System advice Given what you’re looking for and budget I’d take a hard look at the Joseph Audio Perspective 2 speakers paired with a Hegel integrated amp that includes both a very good DAC and streamer so everything works together in one box, which is really ni... | |
| System advice What sound characteristics are most important to you? Tough to make meaningful recommendations without that info as the possibilities are endless. |