antigrunge2
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| Combination streamer and music server…without DAC @soix +1 he has been doing it for a long time and is notorious for it. | |
| Which power cords have high resolutions and separation?? Look at Akiko Audio line products before spending megabucks on a PC. Cleaning up the junction box and ground has bigger payoffs | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts @ticat +1, splitting my sides laughing… | |
| Allnic tube dac Has it occured that I am not discussing a power amplifier on this thread? Doh! | |
| Allnic tube dac @pindac I assume you refer to Jules Futterman designs which indeed sometimes did their contribution to heating the room. In any case, I ran a Graaf GM20 OTL for many years without even a valve blowing up, never mind the amp, before shifting to m... | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience yet another very dogmatic thread, this. If SUTs are evil, why do designers like Ortofon, Yamamoto, shindo et al use them rather than active circuits? Surely there are many ways to Rome and implementation matters. | |
| Audio Science Review = Rebuttal and Further Thoughts @prof measurements need to reflect reality. Unfortunately acoustics at this stage of scientific development is more art than science.….and being doctrinaire about using measurements when they don‘t reflect reality is very dogmatic, not scientifi... | |
| Tube amps and a Stradivarius Tubes unlike SS don‘t switch. Unless you go to class D with a high switching frequency that remains audible | |
| DACs that do well without a preamp Another approach where built-in attenuators are deemed not good enough is to simply get a high quality passive, since high output voltage and low output impedance of most high end dacs make this feasible, provided cable runs are short. The additio... | |
| Aric Audio Custom 300b PSET I suggest you add EAT (bold, very fleshed out) and Takatsuki (refined, deep soundstage) to your list. You‘ll probably find the Sophias not at the same level as the above. | |
| SUT - electrical theory and practical experience SUTs are all about the quality of the transformers. I run a Bob‘s Devices Altec Lansing TBB103 and can confirm that using the gain stage of my Zyx Artisan instead leads to a major deterioration from my Zyx Universe. | |
| Ethernet cables @vonhelmholtz +1 on DXE. Also recommended: EMO EN-70HD galvanic isolator. Keep any connection after the last filter/Isolator to the DAC as short and high quality as possible. The final feet after clean-up have a large influence on outcomes | |
| Rhodium...hmmm surfaces meeting between receptable and PC are unlikely to be either even or tight. Most likely different metals will be forming the contact. In my experience a good contact enhancer such as Mad Scientist is well neigh indispensable | |
| Rhodium...hmmm Rhodium with Mad Scientist contact enhancer works perfectly well | |
| Which power cords have high resolutions and separation?? @timetraveler66 Religious fervour. Might this actually depend on the resolution of the system used? Or do you simply know better? |