^Thats a rather nice buffet going on there
^Thats a rather nice buffet going on there
Nope - Touch with standard PSU (for the moment - new one coming soon), Bushmaster running from 12V battery. Co-ax connection into Input 3. Running EDO and all unnecessary add-ins disabled. Standard Logitech Media Server with a variety of file formats on a W7 desktop machine. Cabled ethernet connection.
No hardness, just superb detail.
I love the idea that a digital source could be damaging the signal in someway to affect a specific frequency band- that's genius. 'If' the dac sounds like that it's the dac that sounds like that, the Touch just passes the bits onwards.
Kuzma Stabi/S 12", (LP12-bastard) DC motor and optical tacho psu, Benz LP, Paradise (phonostage). MB-Pro, Brooklyn dac and psu, Bruno Putzeys balanced pre, mod86p dual mono amps, Yamaha NS1000m
Location: Bridgwater UK.
Posts: 204
I'm alan.
Been there,thought i recognised the table,and the statue,that room can be an expensive place to be in.
Oh well.
thats that then...
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
There is a school of thought (and I'm using the word 'thought' in a very special sense here) that claims that a shitty $20 DVD player from Walmart, when used as a digital transport into an outboard DAC, sounds exactly the same as the ultra high-end $20,000 digital transport.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
Location: Germany, Bavaria, Heilsbronn
Posts: 30
I'm Marco.
To be honest, that is EXACTLY my thought. I do not use a DAC inside any device, I only own external DACs (Stan's, Moodlab Concept), and I do use unspecific sources that all sound the same when configured to output bitferfect:
Dell D830 on docking station with coax and Foobar/Asio
Acer 1810TZ with toslink and Foobar/Asio
Asrock Z77 Pro3 workstation with coax and Foobar/Asio
Squeezebox Touch with Toslink
'Shitty' 18€ DVD-Player with toslink (bitperfect configurable!)
'Expensive' ex-1800€ DVD-Player with coax
Panasonic 42inch plasma with toslink
And IMHO the effects on the source side on SQ are neglectable when compared to a exchange of speakers, DAC, or amp.
Primary . . . . SBT > Beresford Bushmaster DAC > Alex Ederer 300B SE> Klipsch RF-7 (102db) / AKG K-701
Secondary . SBT > Beresford Caiman > Trends Audio TA10.1 > Castle Howard S3 (89db)
Tertiary . . . .Workstation PC SPDIF (Toslink) ASIO > Beresford TC-7510 MK III > Kingrex T20U+PSU > Klipsch RB-25 (94db)