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I need an Audio Detective

Hello AG I have a unique situation with my audio system that I have no answer for. Here’s the deal. I was playing my Magnum Dynalab tuner and noticed my Denafrips Terminator 2 DAC standby light was not on. The power cord had come loose from the back so I snugged it up and the light came on. For whatever reason I hit the on button on the DAC and when I did it crushed the signal on my tuner. I cut DAC off and signal came back. I tried another tuner same result. Any ideas as to what is going on?

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erik_squires
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Whether gear sounds better left on or not is very much dependent on the gear. My Luxman sounds great even after a minimal warmup. My previous Class D amps needed 2-4 days to sound their best again.

If you don’t hear any benefit to leaving your DAC off, I don’t understand the problem. It may be worth trying a different AC circuit though, if that fixes your problem the noise is being transmitted through AC and a Furman with LiFT and SMP will fix you right up.

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mofimadness
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Try a few RF Chokes on the digital cables coming and going from the DAC.

https://www.amazon.com/rf-choke/s?k=rf+choke

dpop
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So it's confirmed the DAC is emitting RFI garbage. I wonder if that RFI is permeating any other audio gear (besides the tuners) when it's ON, to the point it's having an effect on noise floors.

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