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| Which aes/ebu cable? CCA Magnum Opus, Audio Sensibility Signature, or RAL Prophecy Ref? Gold plugs definitely obscure detail. In fact, the Furutech gold-plated XLR connectors are very smooth sound, but man are they warm and slow! However, when combined with silver wire, they are actually quite good!I'm not going to 100% say that t... | |
| Which aes/ebu cable? CCA Magnum Opus, Audio Sensibility Signature, or RAL Prophecy Ref? I have made about 5 different AES/EBU cables of my own. I used the Oyaide Focus XLR on a cable with 21awg OCC solid-core copper conductors. This cable definitely had a bright edge on the highs even though the conductor was copper. If you combine t... | |
| Which aes/ebu cable? CCA Magnum Opus, Audio Sensibility Signature, or RAL Prophecy Ref? I have had Audio Sensibility "signature" level cables are they are absolutely excellent for the money. The "Signature AES/EBU" uses really large 20awg OCC silver conductors that are twisted and inserted into a teflon tube (so you have almost no d... | |
| Anybody use an LPS with a processor? Yes, a linear power supply would definitely improve a roon nucleas as well. This question was actually asked recently and I posted a detailed answer:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/lps-for-roon-nucleus | |
| Anybody use an LPS with a processor? You really can't upgrade a power supply that's already built into a processor (NAD / Marantz). However, you can do a linear power supply upgrade for transports and sources. These are things like Oppo/Panasonic bluray players, streamer boxes such... | |
| Quest to find a decent sounding ,picture Blu-ray player Panasonic DP-UB9000 plus the OppoMod upgrade:http://www.oppomod.com/ | |
| Best Digital Interface Both ethernet and USB are data-packet based interfaces. However, the actual communication protocols are different between the two." USB data is sent in packets Least Significant Bit (LSB) first. There are 4 main USB packet types :Token, Data, Han... | |
| Two preamps in PC applications Another option is to get an Asus Xonar Essence Stx sound card. This has a true headphone amplifier IC as well as a full-size 1/4" headphone jack on the rear. Then swap out the op amps with something like Burson V6 Classic to give it a warm/textu... | |
| Purist Audio Venustas vs. Nordost Quattro hahah, I was going to mention that the Quattro is a freaking old cable, like 22 years! lol. | |
| Best Digital Interface I believe what your original inside outside statement means is that the RME will accept an external clock signal over the SPDIF interface The S/PDIF interface requires the data to be clocked from the source. This is the only way it will work ... | |
| Recommendations for a new Basement home theater. If starting from scratch, doing standard drywall is fine. Make sure you have carpet floor (no concrete!!!). And drywall ceiling is recommended (once again, no concrete!!)Second, make sure you have your electrician run one or more DEDICATED 20A c... | |
| Best Digital Interface If your transport is providing S/PDIF, it's never a good idea to convert this to USB. The target DAC will have to re-convert back to S/PDIF and I2S anyways, but now you have timing problems since USB is really a data packet interface and not an a... | |
| Two preamps in PC applications If you combine the Claro with the Nonsound, it could give you what you want. Keep in mind that these cheap tube headphone amps are not really full tube preamps. They run off very low voltage (this one uses 5V DC) and the tubes are really just us... | |
| Krell showcase amplifier 7 ch You are likely better off sending this to Krell for repair. I don't think you are going to find anyone that has an extra board for this amp. | |
| Processor question I run the front channel pre out from my AVR to the RCA jacks on the power amp, and I run balanced from my stereo preamp to the amp. When the stereo is active, the HT system is off, which results in no adverse affects to the 2 channel system. ... |