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| Innuos PULSE Mini? @everest_audio Thank you for chiming in! I've always been very impressed with Innuos products, EXCEPT for the Zen Mini (with or without their internal dac). I didn't find it special and almost struck off Innuos from consideration. I later bought t... | |
| Streamers and their Fuses Up until las year, I was very skeptical of fuses or any other tweaks with the exception of cabling. A fellow audiophile convinced me to try the SR Purple fuse on my Innuos Zenith MK3 streamer. It was around $200 with a decent return policy, so I f... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl @ghdprentice Typically one gets a pretty cheap Rega, a decent phono stage and it trounces one’s digital end. Great point! I guess this knife cuts both ways. My original OP was highlighting the discrepancy between a well-sorted analog rig vs. ... | |
| What am I missing? +1 @soix Excellent points! | |
| What am I missing? The ownership (or the lack thereof) criticism is not valid anymore. If you own a streamer and local storage/server, you can always buy and download your music if you like. I stream mostly with Qobuz but I have ripped most of my CDs and have downlo... | |
| QSA Power Jitter Power Conditioner, anyone tried it? @willgolf Yes I tried it with my amp this way. Then I switched back to using it with the power conditioner. I didn't really notice much of a difference to be honest. But as usual YMMV. I think TweekGeek still offers 30 day return guarantee. That's... | |
| Qln, Joseph Audio, Audiovector, Marten, or Canton...? Another speaker line that is expensive but not talked about much (at least at a'gon) iis Borresen Their standmount model called the Borresen 01 retails for over $30K with stands. I don't know who would pay this kind of money for a standmount but I... | |
| QSA Power Jitter Power Conditioner, anyone tried it? +1 @lwin When I put the Red in my system, the improvement was immediate and very noticeable. It only got better after a few days. | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers @prof Congratulation! And it's about time! 😁 I hope they don't take forever to send them back to you. I'm assuming you will be using your Thiels in the meantime? I would love to hear your impressions once you have them back. I really appreciate... | |
| Built-in vs. Standalone DACs @lafavetl I think it is a difficult question to answer without knowing the rest of your system and your budget. I have never owned an Oppo, but from what I hear a number of people who tried an external dac with Oppo were reasonably happy. | |
| Built-in vs. Standalone DACs @lalitk Agreed. Although, I think the gap between separates and integrateds has shrunk a bit in recent years. This is especially true for amps in the $15K plus range for sure. I think your Accuphase is a good example of what I'm talking about ... ... | |
| Thought I’d share: Nicely done and practical DAC review I like Darko’s reviews as well. He comes across as a very thoughtful and professional individual. However, our tastes in music are are as far apart as the north and south poles 😞 | |
| Built-in vs. Standalone DACs @mahler123 That’s exactly what I wonder about as well. I recently talked to a couple of designers of higher-end ($20K+) audio equipment and my understanding is that they put in significant R&D efforts to avoid the usual pitfalls of integrated ... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl @jefflz We are truly sorry for not meeting your lofty "professional" standards. There's another site called ASR where I believe humor or satire, or any other emotion for that matter, is frowned upon. From what I've heard they are quite uptight ove... | |
| Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System vs SGC Optical Isolation System @jerryg123 Thanks for sharing. I used the same converter when I owned the Sonore opticalRendu bundle. I'm using Node 2i in the second system. Can you think of any reason why this won't work with the Node? Is there a way to add an LPS? |