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20 Years?
22+ years and how time flies and things change!     
Another post about a streamer upgrade
I find the streamer can make a very big difference if you also have a great dac and overall system. I own the Tron Atlantic Sig dac and after hearing several streamers in my system priced from $1200 to $7900 I can confidently say streamers matter ... 
Eliminated my preamp with amazing results
Oh yes the Dude preamp! I miss mine also. I had a fully tricked out one that Paul helped me to upgrade.   
Eliminated my preamp with amazing results
@ghdprentice   Great comment. You may find the initial change in sound is interesting and new, but it may not be your longer term preference. Give it a few weeks. I have found this to be true on several occasions over the years. You may end up ... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
Acoustic truth does care about not introducing noise into the environment you wish to place treatments and embeddings. I am referring to signal noise that smears, perverts, and masks the audio signal. So the gear and tweaks audiophiles buy certain... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
Well @mahgister I agree with many of your points, but I sense you take your perspective too far and diminish other experiences and audio realities to severely.  
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
@calvinj Absolutely understand your perspective and personal experience. Well matched gear, including cabling, is another key to sonic bliss. It’s so interesting to me how a well chosen cable, in a position or two, can help snap a system into a ... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
@mahgister, I certainly see the wisdom and truth of your statement below… “But this truth of mine is not a "good news" for most people ... Because most will never enjoy this fact ...Then it is not an appealing truth ...It is better to believe the... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
@mahgister you may disagree, but I stand by my experience and experiences. Also, like you, I have experimented for many years with room treatments and vibration control. Not a newbie at this by a long shot. Some rooms are just fine as is with furn... 
High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?
I and several fellow audiophiles with good listening skills and systems have spent good money on treating our rooms with all manner of acoustic treatments. In two specific cases folks paid big money for a room acoustics company to come in and prof... 
Update on good Ethernet switch
Ok, where is the best place to buy the LHY SW6? AliExpress is $565….much less, but may have hidden import fees? Maybe not, as it is under the $800 threshold for the fees to apply.     $800 is more than I want to pay from the US distributor. No di... 
Streamer Comparison and Suggestions
Pulsar is wonderful and Innuos has always responded promptly to my questions. Lifetime Roon member who no longer uses it as Sense sounds FAR better with Innuos products.   
Logical next step from Legacy Signature SEs? Around $15K...
Ok, for a little more you need to look into the Wolf Von Langa Son speakers. Two way with field coil driven woofers. Goes down to 20-25 hertz and has that voice of one thing in spades. Special speaker. Contact Colin @gestalt as he is the importer ... 
Wilson Audio Duette / Custom Crossover Upgrade
Thanks for the great reply. I watch all of his videos and have done so for years. I respect him and he knows his stuff. I also mod gear for myself and others for many years now.  I get the fact that costs can get very high with parts.  I have wor... 
Wilson Audio Duette / Custom Crossover Upgrade
Two questions. Why did Danny decide on using the JFX capacitors? Curious about his reasoning here. Lastly, why did you blackout the values of the capacitors? Not seen that done before on all the crossover pics I have viewed over the decades. The ...