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| Snake River Audio Power Cables - Best Unboxing All the more reason to consider adding a quality power device to your system. Surge protection, voltage regulation, etc, all very useful things for safety and sometimes sound quality too. | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found The Veritas Connexa ethernet cable arrived yesterday. Really interesting look to it. I guess this is how Cabledyne products were built, I have not seen any of those personally. I like it. Sound is promising so far. Can already tell I like it bett... | |
| 聖HIJIRI Users thread @lak Thank you, I guess if I clicked to their website I would have learned that as well. Interesting they are still around. Focus maybe shifted a little but I think even back then they were focused on small details like vibration control and signa... | |
| Furutech Lan 8 NCF It's on my list of Ethernet cables to try. I agree that burn in "requirement" seems absurd, and the build seems a bit on the budget side. But the price is right so I'll probably still try it at some point. | |
| Shout out to Revival Audio Atalante 3 speakers The Vivids do have that Dr Seuss look to them. I think that would be great in some homes and terrible in others. Depends on the decor and such. I think that darker color for the Atalante posted above looks beautiful though. Sort of a mature Harbe... | |
| Tannoy Canterbury, KEF Reference 5, Fyne Vintage Twelve, SF Serafino The older I get, the more I start to notice how big of an influence the room makes to my sound. Don't get me wrong I love tweaks and swapping cables and such. But unless you have your room sorted with treatments, it probably makes a bigger differe... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade Are you looking for a regular CD player, or would you be open to adding an external DAC? In that case you would continue using your Rega as a transport, feeding the DAC with a digital cable. | |
| 聖HIJIRI Users thread I'm just trying to play catch up on this long thread, but was wondering if this is the same Combak that is/was associated with Reimyo? I remember their CDP-777 being in the discussion for Best in the World maybe 20 years ago. I wanted one badly ba... | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found Nobody is talking about cables with used-car price tags, nobody is talking about not being able to enjoy music without upgrading cables. Pretty sure we are all here because we love listening to music and want to enjoy that activity more thoroughly... | |
| Shout out to Revival Audio Atalante 3 speakers These are beautiful in a very boring, traditional way. I love that. So many crazy speakers these days look like seashells or bad modern art projects. | |
| Are all streamers the same? I think it depends. When things start as a streamer, and then the DAC part gets added, it always seems like a compromise to me. This is how I felt about all the Aurender models I've ever tried with analog outputs. Not that they sound bad, just not... | |
| Audio Art Statement cables I have a couple of Audio Art mid level cables and intend to explore the Statement line soon. They are really impressive for the money, and it’s a great company to deal with. I only wish they made more digital cables. I'm on the hunt for some ethe... | |
| All in One Solution for Streaming You might look into the Matrix Audio Element P. It's an all in one streamer, DAC, and speaker amp with tons of functionality. Matrix is a Chinese firm that isn't really well known in the mainstream but they make great products with lots of value f... | |
| Stack Audio-SmoothLAN Network Filter- WOW! I know a guy using all sorts of megabuck gear, but he swears by the Stack Audio Link 2 network streamer. It's under $2k with the matching Stack linear PSU which makes it by far the most affordable piece of his system, by orders of magnitude. I w... | |
| PS Audio Stellar Gold DAC ? I tried it out and it was decent but not great to my ears. I remember enjoying the old Stellar Gain Cell DAC back in the day which had a lot to offer for a pretty low price. The Gold is more than double that price and to me doesn't really justify ... |