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Dedicated power
An electrician ran one 30A and 2 20A lines to my equipment room.... Yes, I noticed a difference.Get the 30A line and plug your multiple outlet power conditioner(if you want one) into it. Or plug one of your amps into it and another into the 20A li... 
Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required?
$46 large? He is nuts. I just spent $500 on 5 GIK Acoustic panels. 2 Bass traps for corners and 3 panels on the wall behind my couch. As Borat would say, That's a nice....What do you expect a guy who's business is soley to sell acoustics to say.  
If you stream music from the internet, I can't recommend this more highly
With a very good 75 ohm spdif cable and OTG USB, this allows me to use my Android to my DAC for Tidal MQA-https://www.nobsound.ltd/usb-to-spdif-converter-xmos-xu208-coaxial-optical-toslink-support-source-ou...Sound pretty good in my system. Not ba... 
Perfect Path Tecnologies ‘The Gate’
What is The Gate exactly? A noise filter? Since the company is no longer, I can't find out any information. Thanks. 
Back to vinyl need phono stage help!
Vertere Acoustic's Phono-1. Around $1000 or so. Dip switches on the underneath of the unit. Hits way above its weight. Not a presence in the U.S. or North America but it should be. Worth a look.  
If you stream music from the internet, I can't recommend this more highly
Aren't optical cable connections usually restricted to 96kHz? 
Stereo Times list of the " 2020 MOST WANTED COMPONENTS"
Puritan Audio's 156 and PSM1512 got top honors. I've never heard of that company before. With the likes of Shunyata and Audioquest, I wonder how the Puritan ranks. I've never seen the term power "purifier" before. The 1512 innards seems less myste... 
Tidal vs Quobuz
For my car, I absolutely love Tidal. Just bought the Best Buy yearly subscription. Admittedly, I have an aces car stereo system and it sounds incredible. I have Android Auto and my phone is plugged into a USB port to my head unit. Very important m... 
Power Conditioners
The Gray does not isolate their outlets. I've been corresponding with Garth from AudioQuest as I am considering replacing the 12 outlet Gray 1200 with an AQ 12 outlet Niagara 5000(4 high voltage and 8 low voltage outlets). He was very complimenta... 
Difference between amps
Don’t forget about Jeff Rowland amps. You might be able to buy 2 used Model 12 monoblocks for a good price which might be one of your best bets. 350W into 4 ohm.  
Power Conditioners
Thank you @mijostyn I was thinking about that today...The question is, is a 12A choke not an issue for my Rowland Model 102 mono and 201 stereo amps used in surround(as far as higher amperage transient peaks), Classe processor and phono stage? Rea... 
Power Conditioners
Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata in a recent interview at the 1:00 markhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=MpAsUgv24jcsaid that isolation transformers(like the Torus toroidals) are a huge RF block to the power grid and does not allow noise to t... 
Power Conditioners
mijostyn3,351 posts01-05-2021 9:47amVinylshadow, the power supplies of your amplifiers are power conditioners. If you feel the need to add more power conditioning they are terrible amplifiers and you should get ones that have decent power supplies... 
Power Conditioners
Does anyone here have any experience with, or has heard about, the 10 outlet Torus RM20 toroidal isolation power transformer(and noise filtering, lightning and surge suppressor)? I was strongly considering it for my home theater system and due to ... 
Substantial Upgrade
Vertere Acoustics Phono-1 is a very good phono stage. $1000 or so. All the capacitance and resistor toggles are at the bottom of the unit. Not inside like some.The Phono-1 has received great reviews and hits way above its weight...Vertere is a UK ...