chiva1

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Good and bad w/ replacing stock preamp jumpers?
Scratch that, ended up just opening up the NAD and joining the pre-to- power amp leads inside (its a grey 3-conductor ribbon) .. bypassing those junky RCA in/out altogether. Thumbs Up emoji....Next... 
Good and bad w/ replacing stock preamp jumpers?
Replaced the stock u-jumpers on my NAD 7175PE with some small (2”) pure silver solid wire and it completely changed the resolution of this integrated. The stock jumpers are non-magnetic (they seem to be stainless steel). It completely opened up th... 
Getting good sound from MacBook via DAC.
I’ve had good luck running out of my Mac Mini USB out to a Berkeley Audio Designs Alpha USB box.. out of the ALPHA via AES into various DACs. (Berk REF DAC, Pacific Microsonics Model 2, Trinity, CH Precision, etc..) I run JRiver on the Mac and all...