Yea that’s probably not for me as I stream all my music exclusively through tidal and the cloud. Might get a small streamer but only if it really helps.

I usually stream from tidal. Idk what a streamer would do for me vs a pc

https://jcat.eu https://www.matrix-digi.com/en/products/333.html

Also ASR has consistently talked crap about ifi purifier and other usb cleaning products. I mean they talk crap about a lot products it seems. His testing methodology might be flawed? Idk I’m not an expert...

https://jcat.eu/ https://www.matrix-digi.com/en/products/333.html

Hi I was wondering if anybody can speak to comparing these two TOTL r2r dacs. I know they are at two totally different price ranges but I was wondering how much more performance you would be getting out of an msb discrete dac vs an already TOTL r2r denafrips dac.

No. This https://ifi-audio.com/products/micro-iusb3-0/

You say this but you’re iusb 3.0 cleaners are always out of stock. 😔

Interesting. Never heard of this company. Will have to give them a look.

Does OTL make that big of a difference?

Ill wait for that then. I was looking into feliks but they only had single ended outputs. Ive heard great things about them.

Hmm so it seems the reclockers are the ones that make the difference. However, wouldn’t using a master clock even better then?

I don’t have any issues and it’s definetly lower down the list. But I’ve heard good things about active solutions such as the ifi iusb.

I don’t mind spending money so long as it’s not like $1000.

Hmm... that’s a good point.

As the title suggests, I want to know if usb cleaners and audiophile usb pcie cards work. How much of a noticeable difference do they make? Do they offer better gains than upgrading cables?

I appreciate your recommendation of the Audeze. I tried the Audeze 4 recently and 2 in the past and frankly wasn’t too impressed with them. They sounded solid but that was it. Also the abyss was already purchased. I’m not sure what your experience with the abyss are but most reviews are...

Yea look I’m just gonna go with that Prelude 3.1 LE amp since it has all the features I want and reviews are positive.

I juuust bought them. I mean I was using the dark voice as an example

Well not necessarily I was just using them as an example. They’re kind of well known so yea.

Thanks for your enlightening response. I understand the abyss 1266 phi tc is tonally more flat than I’d like but it’s know for its bass extension. It’s also know for a lot of other things that are important to me (detail retrieval, sound stage, imaging). As for eq. I’m not very good at it and...

Oooh its cheaper too. I have to do some research on them. The wa33 seems to be using some more substantial tubes.

So I’ve been looking for a totl headphone tube amp. I wanna get a headphone tube amp for stronger bass and warmer sound signature. I know the wa33 is popular but it’s so well known that I would like to try some of the smaller brands out. However, I still want comparable performance. Here are...

Hmm so you’re saying dual mono doesn’t matter so much for sound quality than just good circuitry. My source is gonna be a Dave and was planning to use the balanced outputs to the dual mono amps. I was gonna use them to power an abyss ab1266 phi tc. I wanted tubes to make it sound warmer and add...

what if I use two amps that have balanced outputs?