soix
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| I have perfected my network for the nth time @lalitk +1 and well said. Again I quote Pink Floyd from The Wall — “It’s not easy banging your heart against some mad bugger’s wall.” | |
| Midrange Increasingly Harsh Maybe the cheapest/easiest option would be to do some tube rolling in the PL amp. That’s where I’d start, and best of luck. | |
| Flat frequency response It might be because a speaker that measures ruler flat sounds like crap in an actual room. Just a semi-educated guess. | |
| It's coming! My active 3 way center Can’t wait to see it! Curious Erik — what % of the total cost is the cabinet? | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? I have taken this pine bark supplement that has been clinically shown to help with tinnitus, and I have found it to help somewhat in my own case. I have no financial tie to this and just offer it as something to try if you’re dealing annoying ear... | |
| Value of a premium Ethernet cable Here are a couple different options from what I’ve read from far wiser posters here. You could replace your current CAT 5 cable with this… https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089N94XXV/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_8?smid=A1EA54VWB150Z7&=undefined&... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? @marco1 Have you considered adding a DDC? In my HeadFi rig I added a Denafrips Iris (bought used) to take advantage of my Musician Pegasus’ (shares some DNA with your Pontus) i2S input and the improvement was not small. And this was using this $... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? @marco1 Got it. You and I are indeed on the same page, and I apologize for my initial misunderstanding. Which Aurenders do you have BTW? | |
| New Product RE: Denafrips 12th Anniversary Edition Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC) I have an Iris feeding i2S into my Musician Pegasus DAC, and the improvement was significant across the board. As others mentioned, this may vary depending on individual system components. | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? Have to disagree soix. I did just that using my phone as a streamer into an Ares II. It sounded almost as good as using a Node to stream in the same setup. Never tried the Zen but can't imagine things changing that much. But maybe they could.... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality The flip side of the coin is that these products are advertised as having ’less noise’ yet there are no measurements to confirm that this is in fact the case. @yage Yeah, if there are no measurements you sure as hell can’t hear it. The reason... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality Those of us who have tried both know. Those that haven't pontificate. They are not here for knowledge. Just to preach their superior "knowledge." @fuzztone +1 | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality @yage First, and just as with a DAC, a streamer is much more than just its processing chip, and if you don’t realize this simple fact you don’t (or won’t) understand there’s a lot more involved in good streaming quality than that. Second, I’ll pu... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? Install USB Audio Player Pro on your phone and connect via usb to the DAC. Absolutely not! I’ve done that and it sucks. When I added a relatively cheap iFi Zen Stream my streaming performance improved exponentially. Even a decent streamer ma... | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality You definitely don’t need a streamer to get absolutely top notch performance. You may like the streamer better subjectively, but objectively there’s nothing particularly better about it. Uh, objectively there absolutely is something better abou... |