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| Does power cord for desktop PC matter? I think you’re just polishing the turd. As you know your computer is a very noisy source, and you’re much better off just using the computer for music discovery and getting a separate streamer and subscribing to Qobuz for music. The PC to your c... | |
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! I’m very jealous you have such a great diversity of wonderful speakers to listen to, and adding the Maggies seems like a no brainer. This doesn’t pertain to Maggies but more to making your life easier switching them with the awesome Perspectives.... | |
| DAC for second system A Topping DAC is the polar opposite of an R2R NOS DAC that the OP is looking for. | |
| Denafrips Pontus II 12th VS Gustard R 26 I believe Gustard is coming out with an R26 without the streamer soon so might be worth looking into. | |
| If you had to narrow your choices to 4 - 5 speakers @bjesien I’ve never heard their monitor, only the Avant Garde and one of their older GAP models and they always surprise me by being some of the best sounds I hear at shows. Most recently I heard the Avant Garde at the NYC show a few months ago, ... | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? @audiom3 Hey thanks a lot man! I’m a long way from buying Seismic due to budget constraints, but I bet these give a good bit of what they do given your stated results at a fraction of the cost (they are springs too after all), and the fact that yo... | |
| If you had to narrow your choices to 4 - 5 speakers Would be helpful if you shared what speaker/sound characteristics you’re looking for, but here’s a list in order where I’d go. I’m going over your limit — sorry I just can’t help myself. It’s like a kid in a candy store-like thing. Joseph Au... | |
| Vibration isolation or absorption? @audiom3 Im very interested in the springs you mentioned. Can you provide the link so I can find them? Thanks! I would say, though, that the most universally-praised tweak I’ve ever heard of are the Townshend Seismic isolation products that are... | |
| Upgrading power cable to AQ Niagara 5000? @raysmtb1 I can’t find any cable company named MOAC. Can you provide more detail on where to find them? Thanks. | |
| Hifiman he400se vs Sennheiser HD560s (Comparison) - I bought both @rel I hear ya man. I got nailed by that once where I got an email from a friend with just a link. Before I clicked on it I replied back to him to check if it was really him and got a response that it was him so figured it was ok. I clicked on ... | |
| Yes, digital cables matter too @ambr1600 Your findings on i2S cables is surprising as it’s widely held that optimally i2S HDMI cables should be 1 foot or less as that signal was initially designed to work inside pro components and therefore didn’t need to run more than a few in... | |
| DAC for second system Here’s a nice Musician Aquarius, that doesn’t come up used often, at like a 30% discount fyi… https://www.ebay.com/itm/266200323483 | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report One of the nice side benefits of going to shows is that you can come away with a lot of good new reference/demo recordings. I went to the NYC show a few months ago, and despite the relatively few (but many good) presenters I came away with at lea... | |
| Power Cable for CDP For what you’re looking for I’d recommend LavriCable power cords that are made from pure 5N silver and are an exceptional value IME. I don’t own their power cords but do own their interconnects, USB, and headphone cables and they excel at transpa... | |
| Headphone amps Flyby alert — the OP has never responded and is MIA so consider you may be just wasting your time sharing your thoughts here. |