tksteingraber
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| What software are you running on your music server Amarra on a Macbook. Connects to Tidal and Qobuz. Interface isn’t the best. Has a play ap for phone or ipad. Sound quality with or without EQ is excellent better than Tidal directly if you can live with their interface. | |
| Grounding cable gauge size I have found that sometimes logic doesn’t always translate to audio reality. Especially when it comes to all things in this hobby. Ozzy, completely agree...being new to this hobby for a little over a year now I am continually amazed how all sorts... | |
| Grounding cable gauge size @cakyol i guess these grounding connections to a ground box solved my speaker’s grounding issues. Loving it! Amp and DAC don’t seem to benefit from the box's. Crazy stuff… . | |
| Grounding cable gauge size @bugredmachine i agree with your comment above on auditory improvement on a ground…UNTIL I plugged my speakers into the ground box. Gobsmacking sound improvement. Better than spending thousands of $’s on component upgrades…My ears tell me the truth! | |
| Grounding cable gauge size I connected basic 16ga copper strand wire to the neg terminal on each speaker only to the standalone box. Speakers have class D sub amps built in not fully powered speakers. Plan to try NPS1260, wire and connector upgrades to see if it improves. | |
| How to properly stream TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer, et cetera? Time to do your own comparison on your system to find out. Roon Trial or purchase a month seems like the ticket. I use Tidal and compared it with and without Amarra software and it definitely sounds better with Amarra. Not sure what they do? ... | |
| A Second Noise Floor? Ok connected my second 6x6 grounding box ( copper plate lined, 45% rock salt, 45% horticulture charcoal, 10% crushed tourmaline) to my Goldenear triton speakers with built in subs. Used banana plugs from box to the neg speaker plug. Wow dramati... | |
| Grounding cable gauge size Ok thought I should share that I made 2 6x6 grounding boxes for my modest system. $80-$100 investment. Lined boxes with copper plates, 45% rock salt, 45% horticulture charcoal , 10% crushed tourmaline. One is hooked up to my power conditioner chas... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @mre28m5 Glad you had a positive outcome! | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @sns Yes I tried removing the FMC set between the router and macbook and had the same poor result listed above using the usb FMC set only between the macbook and DAC. Back to just using the original FMC setup which sounds great! | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming Have had very nice SQ improvement adding the generic FMC set between my router and macbook pro. Tried adding a second usb 2.0 fmc set between the macbook pro and my DAC and I did not like the result. Crystal clear and extremely detailed but took... | |
| A Second Noise Floor? Assembled my box today. Did reduce noise and improve clarity when connected to power conditioner ground twist nut. Noise floor appears quieter- not in a big way but worthwhile. Plugging a ground only RCA cable into an open negative RCA plug in my... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @mantis007 this is the fmc to usb converter i was referring to…wouldn’t allow me to message. Hopefully this will post. https://www.amazon.com/Transwan-Optical-Application-Backward-Intercom/dp/B07BR5BM71 | |
| CD transports; do they really matter Made a definite improvement even in my mid level system when I stepped up from a Cambridge Audio ACX 35 CD player ( as CD and as transport) to their CXC v2 transport. Can’t face spending hours and months ripping my CD collection to a server even... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio LAB 12 DAC arrived and I have to say Wow! Glad I picked this DAC up at half price. Couldn’t be happier with the realism and comforting crystal clear sound. Waiting for some NOS Amperex 6922 gold pins to arrive to see how they perform vs the stoc... |