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| Review on Bricasti Design M3 DAC What value fuse does this unit take?No information is given in the manual.Manual p.6:"There are no fuses in the M3 as safety is insured by the use of a rear panel mounted circuit breaker."https://bricasti.com/images/product_downloads/M3_Manual_6_2... | |
| Best kept secret in AC line filtering conditioning You need to work on your guerrilla marketing technique. :)Best process is enthusiastically recommending a product dozens of times in theses threads (sometimes having never heard it). Be relentless. Then, when momentum builds, and sales are boosted... | |
| Bricasti M3/M1SE While reading through another thread, and doing some research as a result, I discovered the SonicTransporter I5 music server, sold by Small Green Computer. A nice feature of the SonicTransporter I5 ($999 including 1TB SSD) over a Roon Nucleus is t... | |
| Bricasti M3/M1SE @verdantaudio, a question for you (and @sksos) about Roon Nucleus...If one stops using Roon (ends a Roon subscription), is a Roon Nucleus device still usable as a server? | |
| Bricasti M3/M1SE Keep in mind, dedicated audio servers are PCs that have been designed and optimized for audio.If you want to retain your present PC, you might look into optimizing it for audio before investing in a dedicated server. Not saying you may not decide ... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? @hilde45:@jea48 Thanks for the very practical answer and to @tvad for the tip on contacting the electrical company. We’ll see how they react, and if they can come out...Tip: My electrician said to tell the Power Company that we had a problem with ... | |
| How To Do You Measure the Quality of Your AC Power? Early in 2020, on the recommendation of my electrician and @jea48, I contacted our Power Company and requested a power quality analysis. They installed a special meter and downloaded weekly readings for a month. It resulted in some repairs to our ... | |
| Bricasti M3/M1SE You will find even a dedicated PC will be a step down and will be noisierMy MacMini is set up as a dedicated server. It runs wirelessly. The entire music library is loaded into Roon’s library. No physical connection to the M3 + network card. No wa... | |
| Apple TV Set Up There are quite a few Bluesound Node 2i listed on various sites. A newly listed Node 2i on USAudioMart today. Not sure why so many are for sale, but trying one seems worth investigating. It would likely be an upgrade from the AppleTV in your syste... | |
| Apple TV Set Up If your MacBook is losing connection to your wifi, then it’s a wifi problem that needs to be addressed. Perhaps a good mesh wifi router system. Hardwiring is best, but you state you don’t want extra wires. I think the Bluesound is a good suggestio... | |
| Power Cord & Power Conditioner Recommendations Equi=Core 1000 - $1,495.00 Intro special is $999.00 delivered Wally’s website states no returns, so best to check with him. I bought a Deep=Core this year. I could hear no change in my system’s sound with it installed. I sold it a month later for... | |
| single end round or flat No idea what would sound best, but Canare 4S11 is an excellent four conductor speaker cable that can be configured for bi-wire, or can be configured for double effective gauge single run. Used in professional recording studios and by audiophiles w... | |
| Apple TV Set Up As far as I can tell after having done some research, the AppleTV device must be selected as the Sound Output device each time the MacBook is restarted or shut down. You can do this from the loudspeaker icon found at the top of the Finder screen, ... | |
| Speaker cable advice Your cables were a "flavor of the month" with glowing testimonials here awhile back.With respect to “flavor of the month”, Clear Day Cables’ longevity in the spotlight was undoubtedly cut short by the untimely death of the company owner. Continued... | |
| Getting into Stevie Ray Vaughn SRV’s catalog is not deep due to his untimely death.These are must own recordings:Texas Flood (1983)Couldn’t Stand the Weather (1984)These are very good, but not must-own, in my opinion. Regardless, you will ultimately own them if you love the fir... |