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| Cable Quest Mogsmi bulk cable 100ft at 14 AWG which I cut into my desired lengths and then terminated with some gearit right angled banana plugs. Don't need anything ridiculous for speaker cables I’ve sold a couple pairs of Acoustic Zen Satori speaker cabl... | |
| Problem with dac/ cd transport / streamer sound differences You should definitely be hearing at least some differences between these various sources. I think your Cardas interconnects/cables are probably masking a lot of the differences you’d otherwise hear with more transparent wires and are very likely ... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations I’d look at a Spatial Audio Raven, Aric Audio Motherload XL, or VAC preamp with something neutral like a CH Precision, Soulution, D’Agostino, or Hegel amp. Or if you go with a warmer amp like Coda, Gryphon, Boulder, or Vitus you could go with a m... | |
| Cable Quest What specific improvements are you looking for? | |
| Keep Acoustic Zen or move on? I actually tried Audience AU24 cables a while back and honestly and surprisingly could not hear a difference between them and my shotgun bi-wire Satoris so I just stayed with AZ. This is the only time this happened BTW as all other cables I’ve tr... | |
| Cable Quest I’ve tried Audience, VooDoo, DH Labs, and Zu Cable among others but have stuck with Acoustic Zen for many years. They offer a very natural and balanced sound with great detail, tone, and imaging/soundstage, and especially if you buy used you get ... | |
| What is the best option of the two choices Since 2-channel is important, going with an integrated amp is the way to go because you really don’t want the cheap and compromised preamp section of a mass market AVR being a bottleneck and mucking up the sound, and preamps matter a lot!!! I’d r... | |
| DDC or Better Streamer? I think your most cost-effective upgrade would be a used Hermes and a LPS for the Vault from LHY, SBooster, or Teddy Pardo and then use i2S into the LAiV. Best of luck. | |
| What is the best option of the two choices If 2-channel sound is important I’d definitely go with option 1 where you can run the front L/R preamp output from the Denon into the HT bypass of the Aethos so the AVR is completely out of the signal path for stereo. I suppose if your priority i... | |
| Ethernet cable - but which one? Given the quality of your system you might consider an external linear power supply from LHY, SBooster, or Teddy Pardo to increase the performance of your Vault, or better yet get a used Innuos Zen Mk3. Just a thought FWIW. | |
| Do I need a stand alone streamer? I’m hoping you’re streaming either over Wi-Fi or a direct Ethernet connection from your router rather than Bluetooth? Anyway, it’s very possible something like a Node or Wiim will be better streamers than the one in your AVR, but whether they’d b... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! @abd1 Got it. In that case the Coda would be a great choice I’d think. | |
| What next for a Volti Lucera based system I think the LTA would offer more transparency and immediacy that may work well given what you’re looking for (I own the MZ2 w/ upgraded LPS BTW), and they offer a trial period that’d be a great thing to take advantage of. Best of luck. | |
| Help a college student out! Component pairing ideas for Acoustic Energy AE500 I think this NuPrime IDA-8 would be great. It got very nice reviews when it came out, and he can hook the Node up to the digital input and his TV and PlayStation into its analog and/or optical inputs. Plus it’s small and puts out 100Wpc that sho... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers And I don’t really care how many people believe one way or another. The only person who seems to believe that majority rules on this issue is the person who made the statement. @mdalton Yeah, the fact that the vast majority of people here agr... |