tksteingraber
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| 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... | |
| A Second Noise Floor? @guakus thanks for the pics very helpful. Is the copper wire from the internal end of the bad boy banana required since all the copper plates are connected? My power conditioner does not have an input plug just an external twist nut. I did rea... | |
| Buying refurbished gear.... Also had very good results buying refurbished direct from Cambridge Audio. All with full warranty. Never needed it! | |
| A Second Noise Floor? Interesting! I like experimenting with inexpensive DIY tweaks and have usually had good success. I read your prior post on building the box so I kind of get the set up. How is the ground wire from the Power Conditioner connected to your box set ... | |
| Cheapest way to enhance SQ with digital streaming @soix thanks for your input. Yep realize the JB is not a DAC just a jitter filter. I was just listing it was on my MAC. The dash above is the connection change. The JB has worked for me much better than iFI purifier and does make the Mac sound ... |