ghasely:
No apologies needed:) I didn’t find your reply to be truncated.
I must say, I respect your audio choices! Very nice.
I too like ladder dacs. I also own a customized AMR CD 77.1 with Jupiter Copper foil paper in wax output caps, a TDA 1541 (real) Double Crown dac (I replaced the non crowned TDA1541) and some strategic capacitor replacements on the digital engine. Even before the changes, the CD 77.1 was my absolute benchmark for digital. Nothing I’ve experienced regardless of sampling rate or format has come close to that unit. Actually the CD 77.1 is the unit that made me realize Sony/Philips got it right the first time. I think it took time for engineers to learn to record to the digital medium correctly and then some very bad things happened along the way, digital compression, delta sigma dacs, switch mode power supplies and cheap drive units.
I’ve always wanted to hear the Innuos gear. I completely agree about the Lumin sound, I found it just terribly grating, thin and sterile.
I admit, some single bit dacs can sound exceptional. I also own a Museatex (Meitner) Bidat that would shame many modern high end dacs for shear musicality and for the emotional involvement it can elicit. When I use it with the music server, I have to use my Sonicweld Diverter HR to convert USB -> SPDIF or iFi iLink.
Innuos makes an active USB filter which looks serious and I can tell you the iFi iUSB 3.0 is indispensable. I would not be able to listen to my music server without that essential piece in the chain. I power the iUSB 3.0 with the second output of the JS2 regulated linear supply. Add the USB iPurifier3 and it’s even better.
Cleaning up USB is pretty easy these days, cleaning up the insidious soul stealing noise created by switch mode power supplies is FAR more difficult! I’ve been at it long enough to have some tricks up my sleeve that work:) The best solution is to keep them out of your system altogether. I even found a linear 24 volt brick to replace the cheap SMPS that came with my very cool L.E.D. articulating lamp that sits over my TT :)
I’d love to hear your Audio Note amplifier !
Hats off to you sir, excellent tastes. I’m sure your system sounds superlative.
No apologies needed:) I didn’t find your reply to be truncated.
I must say, I respect your audio choices! Very nice.
I too like ladder dacs. I also own a customized AMR CD 77.1 with Jupiter Copper foil paper in wax output caps, a TDA 1541 (real) Double Crown dac (I replaced the non crowned TDA1541) and some strategic capacitor replacements on the digital engine. Even before the changes, the CD 77.1 was my absolute benchmark for digital. Nothing I’ve experienced regardless of sampling rate or format has come close to that unit. Actually the CD 77.1 is the unit that made me realize Sony/Philips got it right the first time. I think it took time for engineers to learn to record to the digital medium correctly and then some very bad things happened along the way, digital compression, delta sigma dacs, switch mode power supplies and cheap drive units.
I’ve always wanted to hear the Innuos gear. I completely agree about the Lumin sound, I found it just terribly grating, thin and sterile.
I admit, some single bit dacs can sound exceptional. I also own a Museatex (Meitner) Bidat that would shame many modern high end dacs for shear musicality and for the emotional involvement it can elicit. When I use it with the music server, I have to use my Sonicweld Diverter HR to convert USB -> SPDIF or iFi iLink.
Innuos makes an active USB filter which looks serious and I can tell you the iFi iUSB 3.0 is indispensable. I would not be able to listen to my music server without that essential piece in the chain. I power the iUSB 3.0 with the second output of the JS2 regulated linear supply. Add the USB iPurifier3 and it’s even better.
Cleaning up USB is pretty easy these days, cleaning up the insidious soul stealing noise created by switch mode power supplies is FAR more difficult! I’ve been at it long enough to have some tricks up my sleeve that work:) The best solution is to keep them out of your system altogether. I even found a linear 24 volt brick to replace the cheap SMPS that came with my very cool L.E.D. articulating lamp that sits over my TT :)
I’d love to hear your Audio Note amplifier !
Hats off to you sir, excellent tastes. I’m sure your system sounds superlative.