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| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? Miyajima! | |
| Ethernet connection for best sound quality Anyone here have a Mytek Empire streamer? Or heard one? Expensive but might dispel your audiophile streamer opinions and streamer/DAC opinions. Very well built. | |
| Ethernet streaming "Empire Streamer DAC is a Complete Roon System packaged in one beautifully designed unit, where all the features are optimized. Just turn it on, connect to wifi or wired network, sign in to hi-res Steaming Service of your choice and enjoy the musi... | |
| Ethernet streaming Has anyone heard, or owns, the Mytek Empire Streamer/DAC? It has the DAC(ES9830PRO)inside the unit but the reviews I've read said it sounded fantastic. | |
| AES/EBU vs RCA s/pdif into dac, RCA analog out Please do. Max Townshend was a genius in understanding sonics and design. And ahead of his time..... Townshend's Seismic vibration isolation products are fantastic. As are their cables. | |
| AES/EBU vs RCA s/pdif into dac, RCA analog out Max Townshend felt that unbalanced RCA's sounded better than balanced XLR's due to XLR's added circuitry. That RCA's led to more "pure sound". That XLR's were designed and good for very long cable lengths. So all of my Townshend cables(speaker,... | |
| Turntable Upgrade Advice @tsushima1 As I said, he is now a dealer/rep in the U.S. for Origin Live. | |
| Turntable Upgrade Advice @mmcgill829 Millercarbon might be able to get you a discount now that he's an OL dealer rep...That's who I will be buying with. | |
| Turntable Upgrade Advice Well @mmcgill829 Millercarbon is now an Origin Live dealer rep.... He has the Sovereign and said it's the best table he's ever heard... I'll be getting 1 as soon as I can. But their other tables are excellent as well. As well as their tonearms. Y... | |
| Turntable Upgrade Advice Have you looked at Origin Live tables? | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? Anyone heard of using, or uses, a Plasma lighter? An acquaintance uses one and likes it. He said: " I just ordered a $10 plasma lighter off Amazon for static control, apparently it works as well as / better than a Furutech DeStat / Milty Zerostat... | |
| Question: Sound Treatment behind the Listener? @laynes I put up 3 square 242 Acoustic Panels With Scatter Plate (+$30) Pure White Fabric (standard) to better blend into the white wall. https://www.gikacoustics.com/product/gik-acoustics-242-acoustic-panel/ They are about 18" above and behin... | |
| Question: Sound Treatment behind the Listener? I did reach out to Mike at GIK. Sent him pics of my listening room. He suggested, and I bought, 3 acoustic panels to go on the wall up and behind my listening position. Which was on a couch with a wall right behind it. | |
| speaker cables under 1k for Harbeth 30.2XD? Townshend Audio F-1 Fractal speaker cables. | |
| What are my options for music files, CD rips, and a DAC all-in-one solution? I've heard that a Mytek Empire is awesome. But it's more $($6k) than an Aurender A 30. I wonder if the Empire is better than the Aurender A 30. |