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| Monoblock setup inquiry I had a Freya and it was definitely quieter Balanced vs SE. I also felt it was more dynamic. Get some good XLR cables. Keep it simple, forget the bi-wiring at this time and just enjoy. | |
| What are the top 3 USB cables being used today in reference systems? I have used the Curious cables for a few years. I wanted a new USB for an Innuos Statement and couldn't make a decision with so many choices. I ordered a Network Acoustics Ethernet Filter and saw they had USB cables so I ordered one, I felt it w... | |
| Streaming for beginner You have very high end gear to play from CD. It will be difficult but not necessarily impossible to get close.The devil is in the details. Very clean power for everything. Lots of good LPS, lots of choices. My current favorite for the price is... | |
| My server and Roon Core not getting along ... Sorry to hear, I am sure you will love the Statement once you get it figured out. I have a Statement and have the Roon Core on an Antipodes Core and feel is sounds better than using the Statement as Core and Endpoint. I preferred even using Expe... | |
| Thoughts on a system upgrade. I agree you system is nice and well balanced. I think you could go after the Bluejeans and Pangea cables. I have no experience with Pangea but I had Bluejeans XLR interconnects and while they are better than stock and a great value it was easy t... | |
| Want to setup basic home audio system https://www.psaudio.com/products/sprout100-elac-system/Get a USB adaptor for you iphone and feed it Tidal or Qobuz or buy a streamer like https://www.bluesound.com/products-archive/vault-2/ or a used one for less and you are set. Then upgrade the... | |
| Never Owned a Tube Amp and Want Advice There are good points about how much tube power you will need for your speakers. They may not be a good match. High power tube amps can be noisy, of course there are very quiet well made tube amps with 50 watts or more but well made and quiet te... | |
| Help with DAC and Streamer suggestions Source matters. With Tidal I think you should to upgrade the network and cables to get the most from your DAC. I upgraded to a Terminator and Innuos Statement for DAC and streamer but they didn't sound good with Tidal or Qobuz until I upgraded m... | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? I had a Freya not the plus. I thought it was noisy even with XLR cables. To me the sound was a bit grainy. But for the price it gets you into tubes and it gave me no trouble. I liked the remote, it worked will and when I lost mine it was cheap... | |
| Setting up a Mac mini as a music server, and other digital music questions Get the most from your DAC, buy a purpose built music server. The better the server the better you DAC will sound. Something like https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/audio-server/products/sonictransporter-i5?variant=20893269764 get... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? Steve attempts to crystallise the somewhat nebulous feeling that climbing the ladder to the high-end might be a counter productive endeavour. Kind of like the Heisenberg principle, the closer you look the worse it looks.To the lucky few who g... | |
| Ethernet cable question fastfreight-Sorry I lost this thread. This is confusing to me also. The cable is https://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english/portfolio-item/dcbl-cat7/. I have 2 of the cat7 cables. I also have a https://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english/portf... | |
| Qobuz or Tidal? edcyn-I agree the gear can make the difference. I just made 3 changes today and that changed my preference of Tidal or Qobuz. First I added a Chord English Electric 8switch between my Etherregen and the wall. The 8Switch was a huge change all p... | |
| Qobuz or Tidal? Interesting. I have both and had never listened carefully to compare. There is a difference with Redbook. To me Qobuz is a bit euphonic and heavy sounding. I like Qobuz at low volumes but Tidal is cleaner at higher spl.I go back and forth on M... | |
| Ethernet cable question I dont know much about ethernet cables but I do have experience with using them and the cable between the wall and router making an improvement. I used the SoTM cable with the filter between the wall and a SoTM router, it was a big improvement ov... |