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| 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... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @sls883 Never noticed much if any difference with copper caps TBH for RCAs, haven’t tried for BNCs, maybe get both if cheap, see if you notice a difference. Other factors have far more effect IME.. | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @sls883 Cool, I hope it goes well for you. Noting leaving it on for the oscillator stabilize for days or even weeks initially will improve the sound, cables matter too. Re coax yes you’ll still get a benefit, more if R26 has PCM NOS set to OFF I... | |
| LAIV Harmony @audiostick Scales a lot.. upwards in performance… = improves or benefits prorportionately from, is quite sensitive to… a high quality source - is all I meant. Experimentation with the quality of power and signal cables for and between the UIP and... | |
| LAIV Harmony Back to the Harmony, the LAiV scales a lot with a high quality source in my case an LHY UIP USB regenerator. By way of reference, a guy over at Headfi compared it to the Iris and found it outperformed it in his setup, preferred UIP USB direct to D... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? Hi there, sorry been very busy with work. Some responses: - I found sine works better with R26 - HF refers Headfi + tweaks for OCK-2 were inverting it, removing cover and stacking a sandwich of tungsten cubes and fo.Q damping material on OCXO a... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @boulder_bob that’s the oft quoted theory, certainly. But it depends on fhe DAC design and even the particular setting selected. The majority of Gustard X26/A26/R26 users over at HF, including me as noted above, find clear benefits to clocking bo... |