duckworp
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| Your most indispensable "tweak"? Tweaks that worked for me:- Townshend seismic corners under the rack. These ‘float’ the whole rack and made a big difference- cheap Granite slabs under speakers- Isoacoustic Gaia feet under speakers - CAD GC1 and GC3 passive grounding units- a ded... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC After a lot of research and demoing I have just invested in a CAD 1543 mkII for my pro listening-studio (used for choosing and checking audio files for record companies). It is a classic r2r using a number of the old Philips 1543 chips, and is the... | |
| Speakers which always sound good The most problematic issue with speaker choice in the rooms of my own, my friends, and at shows, seems to be bass boom. This may be more a feature of Europe: we have smaller dwellings and hence smaller rooms on the whole than the USA. Even small 2... | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? Interesting to read this thread.In the UK 'streamer' seems now to define a unit with both DAC and network bridge, I demoed the following network bridge units in my own Vitus/Boenicke system. Hence all wen5 via usb to the Vitus DAC. 1. Auralic Arie... | |
| Your most indispensable "tweak"? @redwoodaudio There is a big thread on them here in the forum. Can you link to this thread please? Search does nor find it. | |
| Help needed finding an integrated amp which has a streamer and DAC included. Thanks for the suggestions. I’m following them all up. Let me know any more if any have been missed. Thanks. | |
| Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking... @sgordon1 says he puts them on top of components. Why? | |
| Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking... These are great on top of components and shelves, and on transformers. They come fully assembled, too.Great value.https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001302651100.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.7f7f4c4dgrVxHmSo these go under components to support th... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC I decided to try a reference-level R2R DAC instead of my Qutest, which is the only DAC I’ve ever owned. I also didn’t want to spend more than I needed to. I chose the May based on the stereophile and stereotimes reviews. Both experienced reviewers... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC I can’t decide between the Holo Audio May Dac and the Denafrips also. How did you decide on the Holo Audio over the Denafrips Terminator? The review I read https://www.stereophile.com/content/gramophone-dreams-40-denafrips-terminator-ares-ii-pag... | |
| Help! Choosing a Roon core/streamer/server! (Roon vs Innuos vs Wyred4Sound) Ripping on a Roon Core/Nucleus is simple. Insert the CD into any external drive and the disc automatically rips to the internal SSD. Roon finds the metadata and you do nothing. That’s it. | |
| cost no object integrated amps Re your question. I know what you mean re Luxman and a warm sound. I directly compared a cheaper Vitus with a 2-box Luxman here: https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/a-review-of-some-amps-on-home-demo-naim-v-luxman-v-devialet-...The SIA-30 i... | |
| cost no object integrated amps I have experience at home with the Vitus SIA-025 and the Vitus SIA-030 as well as numerous separate pre/power combos. At shows I have heard the T&A and ch precision. My view is that the Vitus SIA-030 is a phenomenal amp, better than anything ... | |
| Integrated amp suggestions. Vitus are a Danish high-end company who make three fabulous integrated amps. I have demoed all three and own two of them and all sound wonderful. Their latest, the SIA-030, has received numerous awards in Asia and Europe recently. Class A to 30W a... | |
| What the heck do these terms mean? For anyone, genuinely interested in audio terms, commonly used by reviewers, etc, here’s some reading from a few years back: https://www.stereophile.com/reference/50/index.htmlThanks. That’s a really informative link. Interestingly "organic" was ... |