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| Equipment Rack Between Speakers...Good or Bad These experiments are not so easy to do! Mainly because moving multicomponent audio racks around is not easy but also because I have to change several things at once to accommodate different positions. Which rather complicates the comparisons for ... | |
| High end Cables not important for certain electronics? FWIW I did post my question to the "Ask the Experts" forum at PS Audio. A couple of experts (Ted Smith, designer of the Directstream DAC ,and Galen Gareis, longtime Belden cable engineer and designer of Iconoclast Cables) have weighed in. I've l... | |
| High end Cables not important for certain electronics? Since I am about to purchase a fairly long pair of balanced cables, I read that thread with great interest. I’d love to be able to buy some well-made ‘basic’ xlr cables from an assembler like Blue Jeans Cable and not worry that I was short-changin... | |
| Reasonable high end interconnects: without breaking the bank Good point -- I hadn’t thought to check out the OP’s amp. Will start a thread. | |
| Reasonable high end interconnects: without breaking the bank I'm wondering if any of these recommendations would change if it was clear that the OP was going to use balanced (XLR) cables or was going to have a long run from pre-amp to amps. I seem to remember that Elizabeth found the Cardas Parsec excellen... | |
| Tidal WiFi not as good as cd I stream wirelessly from an Asus router to an Auralic Aries and sound quality with both Tidal and files stored on a NAS is excellent. Auralic recommends using the wi-fi connection in order to eliminate the possibility of electrical noise travelin... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? As long as we’re on the subject.... If one is breaking in a power amp, is it necessary to connect it to speakers, or could you get by with just running a signal into it? And if the amp has both XLR and RCA inputs, would it be necessary (or even he... | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia II on what type of speaker platform? I put my speakers on Gaia’s on top of thick maple cutting boards and felt that I got quite an improvement in resolution and imaging over the spikes that I used previously. My listening room is in a basement with a fairly thick area rug over a co... | |
| Does this exist? Preamp/Streamer/DAC with MQA, Roon and more Might want to check out the new Audio Alchemy line from ELAC. The previous versions of these pieces got a lot of very favorable reviews. The DDP-2 is a streamer-DAC-preamp.https://www.elac.com/product/ddp-2-preamplifier-dac-streamer/?r=usI have ... | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? I had a chance to hear the Audio Mirror DAC recently and it was very impressive, especially considering the relatively modest price. The word that seemed apt to several of the listeners was "dynamic". If I was looking for a new DAC I would defini... | |
| Alta Audio Rhea I, too, have had a pair of Rhea's in my system for the last six months and have been very happy with them. They replaced KEF LS-50's and were a big step up (for my taste and circumstances). My basement listening room has stone walls and a concre... | |
| Amp for LS50 I would echo those warning against using the LS-50's with low-end solid state amps. I went through several before I found a good match with a tube preamp and a hybrid power amp from Frank van Alstine. You don't want anything that tends towards t... | |
| What will a preamp do for me? I was in a similar situation last year, running the PS Audio Directstream DAC directly into my power amp. It sounded good but not as good as I wished it did. So I swallowed hard and bought their BHK signature preamp. Sound is much improved, in ... | |
| Speaker vibration isolation Just wanted to add my experience to those who have found a significant benefit when adding Gaia's to speakers formerly spiked to a concrete slab. I have no explanation or technical expertise, but the improvement in image clarity was not small and... | |
| Play music from laptop over WiFi to existing audio system: how? This will probably be gone soon, but it would be something in between a Chromecast and current Auralic streamers:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9483c-auralic-aries-mini-da-converters/ |