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How I tamed digital glare.

For months I have been trying to eliminate digital glare in the my system, which showed up most noticably in the upper middle frequency vocal range, especially female vocals. I tamed some by replacing the stock fuse in my dac with HifiTuning Supreme Cu on the sage advice of Chris Van Haus of VH Audio, resulting in a significant improvement in tonal density, detail and clarity. So far, so good. Today I lightly dusted the laser lens in my CEC transport with a microfiber cloth and was astonished to discover a substantial improvement! And the laser lens and drive compartment appeared clean to begin with (in a smoke free environment). I tried cleaning contacts, swapping power cords and interconnects, rolling the tube in my MHDT dac, and so forth, but this simple protocol was more effective than any of those experiments. I suppose results may vary as every system is unique, but for me this simple tweak was revelatory: greater clarity and a signifcant reducton of hash. Wish I had thought of tt in the beginning; it would have saved me considerable time and frustration.
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You didn’t cite any research. You posted a link to an industry trade group.
Not so, I wrote see "Also, research by Trock ..." and there is a lot of research by others.

You simply don’t want to look into it because you fear its conflict with your belief system. There is a w-h-o-l-e lot of scientific data on this. Are you an AES member, which would allow access to its presentations?
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I believe there has to be a "perfect storm" of sorts for everything that can go wrong does. And when it does, just get another and better made CDP.  What I hear from my Marantz SA15S2b is nothing to sneeze at. It's some of the most sublime music I've heard.

Audio shows that use computer or streaming audio never won me over. It all sounded like really good to just okay FM. It spanned the gamut from edgy and shrill to milquetoast. Successfully getting music to play seemed to be the great accomplishment, not the quality.

It's kind of like you too can be your own DJ/radio host and tinker with all the settings and lose the forest for the trees with the forest being the music and the enjoyment you get and the trees that distract you being the hardware.

I'm just too old skool as for me it's plop it and play it.

The only computer rig that floored me was an MSB demo that turned out to be their CD player playing in their system. Vince Galbo just smiled when he told me after I said it was the best computer audio I've heard.

With new CD sleds out there like the Blue Tiger, CD is far from dead. They claim they can get more data in a more secure way to pass it down/out to the DAC. We don't have to rely on older tech and a diminishing supply of good quality sleds. 

All the best,
Nonoise
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