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| LAIV Harmony Anyone pre order the Laiv DDC? @sim_audio_nerd I did, last week after my willpower to resist the temptation weakened after a few festive beverages. As I posted upthread there’s DDCs and there’s DDCs, they vary a lot in performance. I seem to be... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns Gee that was a superb review/article over at AS on that Taiko, thanks for sharing. I was already a convert to much of his three principles, but boy it was filled with interesting observations on an array of factors relevant to good sound in a... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns Optically isolated USB regenerators are rare beasts so not surprised you’ve not heard of em. Here’s an expensive example from Afterdark, I got a much cheaper AliX equivalent that comes highly rated from that French hifi tweakers forum. Most U... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns interesting re the new Ximius, first I’d heard of this. Re optical fibre I should clarify these are a matched pair of optically isolated USB converters: USB in > SFP socket > SFPs or AOC or DAC cables > SFP socket > USB out. Will... | |
| What is your favorite budget streamer? Can’t say it is my favourite - yet - as I haven’t heard it yet, but on the strength of a long French hifi forum thread singing its praises SQ wise I have a Ustars C19 winging its way here. RPI 4 based with Ropiee pre-installed but you can flash ot... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns Belated thanks for taking the time to share your detailed impressions of how the Harmony performs with the Gaia over I2S. Sounds pretty great. Look forward to hearing how you get on with the Tubulus I2S (Concentus I’m guessing?). I also look... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns your USB implementation looks pretty sweet, some nice gear there, I wouldn't be in any hurry either. By contrast I need to up my cable and PS game a little and agree the U18 whilst solid is far from the last word in I2S, the Audio-Gd DDCs wit... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns Cheers and interesting re your fish line suspension, pretty novel, cool to hear it works well for you. What is your 'optimised USB implementation' BTW, sorry if I missed it? On the subject of USB implementation in the LAiV this just dropped ... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? I bought an equivalent of the Pasternack from Mini-circuits, another specialist manufacturer of RF cables and other stuff for industry and lab use. Selected it based on very good specs for shielding and low levels of internal reflections, the best... | |
| LAIV Harmony @sns Thanks for your nice write up of your impressions of the Harmony incl vs the Musetecs. A few comments from my experience that may be of interest to you or others: I’ve found high quality USB sounds terrific, better than I2S I’ve tried, and ... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @pindac Cheers for the link, gee that guy went deep into the weeds on controlling temperature variation. Interesting. FYI I have a 1”/2.54cm cube tungsten block as the base of the stack on the OCXO. With tungsten’s high density - same as gold - i... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @sls883 Awesome! I think the R26 in particular benefits from a better quality oscillator, as its internal one is a little jittery in some tests I’ve seen. The differences you describe are typical of better temporal/time domain precision, soundstag... | |
| LAIV Harmony @campo007 Thanks - the Aries S1 with ext PS looks pretty sweet indeed - probably the streamer to beat at that price level and above methinks, had been aware of the highly rated G2.2 and G1.1 but hadn’t caught up on the newer S1.. just watched Hans... | |
| LAIV Harmony @campo007 cheers for sharing your impressions. Suspect a few more more hours would have narrowed the gap a bit but how much, fair enough acting swiftly. What source were/are you feeding em both with? Btw not surprised to hear re the macro dynamics... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? sls883 Sorry I just realised you literally meant shorting the ground/shield and signal conductor, hmm not sure I can endorse that with a sensitive clock. I’d google or better get ask LHY before proceeding. I was picturing a metal shielding cap th... |