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| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol Check out the review below. The Marantz SA8005 is a solid player. I happen to own the original Arcam irDAC compared favorably to the Marantz here, at least for streaming digital. The original irDAC plus a decent digital interconnect can probabl... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol Gman74, plus 1. Relatively inexpensive but effective power conditioner set up: Shunyata Venom Defender in simple breakerless power strip like Wiremold L10320. Around $300 all in. Try this on your source and preamp, not power amp.Captbeaver, do ... | |
| Well... guess I have to jump in the rabbit hole of speaker cables... lol Yeah, I would look at your source and the cabling. Nice speakers, they are going to tell you a whole lot more about what’s going on upstream. The Denon was nice in its day, but modern DACs are really getting good. You owe it to yourself to try s... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Donald Byrd - Byrd In Flight in 24/192 | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S You can get budget aftermarket power cables that provide over 50% of the improvements that SOTA cables provide at 1/10 of the price. The opposite of diminishing returns. Give the cable company your budget and tell them your gear and they may reco... | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S The critcal issues for power cables are speed of current rise, current capacity, protection from external EMI and protection from creating excessive EMI. Everything matters in this regard from to connectors to the conductors to the dialectric to ... | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S Yes, I am referring to EMI. I am not an electrical engineer so have only an audiophile’s interest in the subject and some trial and error experince under my belt including designing, assembling and using a few power cables.That said I have experi... | |
| Power Conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 5000 or Shunyata Denali 6000S @skyscraper, here are some thoughts on running romex or other rather simple cable directly from your breaker box to your conditioner vs running a high end purpse designed audio power cable from a wall socket to your conditioner. From a current pe... | |
| Cable budget in a rig Good suggestion Elizabeth to try before you buy. | |
| Cable budget in a rig In one system I have, the cables are roughly 50% of the equipment cost to me, not counting any power conditioning. This is a lower cost office system, and this is where I landed as providing the best overall sound for dollars invested.In my main ... | |
| What do you LIKE BEST about your current audio system? I am very busy right now so not much time to listen. But when I do, I am pleasently surprised. Everytime, with nearly every recording. For the last several years I was toiling to achieve a certain musical unity and balance for both my digital and ... | |
| Good transport for under 1K? I would listen to Steve (audioengr) on this. Your <$1,000 would be better spent on a box that fixes jitter than on a pretty box that creates it but can’t fix it. I assume you already/still have a cd player with digital output that you are using... | |
| Are Audiophiles "Simply Guessing?" 1. There is a lot more to music reproduction than just the high frequencies. Speed, decay, tone, pace, spatial cues, etc. Listening ability and experience may be more important than acuity and frequency range in determining “quality” of reproducti... | |
| Building a listening room from scratch Cool. I am a big fan of using rock wool insulation. I used rock wool in the ceiling and interior walls and 6” regular fiberglass insulation in the exterior walls of my basement listening room. I used sheetrock but floated the ceiling sheets on alu... | |
| power cables' effect on power conditioner? Plus one for steakster. Try different cables, but high current capability is important for this application. |