Any Follow-up, Chesebert?

Ok, you gotta listen to the track "Backwater Blues" sung by Dinah Washington on the Count Basie live album Basie in Sweden, recorded at a fairground/festival situation in 1962. I'm surprised this album is under the audiophile, usual suspect radar...put down the moribund Krall and stream this...

Somebody mentioned the Nuprime Stream 9. I'm considering auditioning one to evaluate vs. the Zen Stream, which performs remarkably at $399, but at the $1,195 price point, The Nuprime certainly has the most promising stream architecture. There are no reviews, but their amps are highly regarded...

So, I've had the Synergistic Purple Fuse in the 6 week old Spring 3 KTE/Pre for about 5 hours now. I've had lots of components, but other than bypassing fuses in a pair of Maggies, I've never done fuse upgrades. Apparently there's a long burn-in for this fuse, but things are already exceeding...

Awesome. Thank you.

You don't pay the VAT...if you go through most of the order process, inputting your US address, you should see a final price that is about the same as Kitsune, from what I remember.

Issue: I am considering upgrading the fuse to Synergistic Purple, but before doing so I figured I'd open up the unit to see where the fuse is, as I can't find it on any internal photos. I got all but one the necessary Allen screws out successfully, but the final one is stripped (it arrived that...

If I could order again, I'd go through Magna HiFi, as opposed to Kitsune. You get the same price ordering stateside. Magna is a more substantial outfit and appears to be much more responsive to customers.

The $1300 Audioquest Niagra (I'm not a fan of their cables) does what it claims in my system. It replaced a $2000 Isotek Aquarius, which I was happy with until I was offered a Niagra audition.

Really probably equal in streaming function to the Lumin (we're talking the T2 with moded power supply, which has a DAC, but I also experimented with it as a streamer into other DACs and it's about 10x the Zen cost, so based on that experience, considering I only stream Qobuz via the MCconect...

If you haven't heard the little iFi Zen Stream, for $500 (that includes upgraded power supply, it betters the performance of anything under 2 grand (I've had Lumin in house). I go from the USB with a Supra Excalibur USB (this cable bests the typical overpriced audioquest stuff...I do use an...

I've hit about the 400 hour mark. The burn-in improvement has been far more significant than with any other component I've owned. I can't imagine any 3kish audiophile product that does it's job better than the spring 3. I won't stray from the Holo line for digital moving forward. That being...

I'm at around 120 hours, and I've recently noticed the first super palpable improvement, which matches Koso's helpful chart. Good, in Koso's likely more seasoned DAC world, is fabulous to me, so I'm already freaked at what R2R can organically do compared to Delta Sigma. I'm only a 1/5 up the...

The Spring3KTEpre arrived today precisely 3 weeks after I placed the order. I didn't get an email until DHL had it on ground in Milwaukee. No matter, it's in fine order. Within about 90 mins of burn-in, it began outclassing my previous digi front-end (Project Prebox S2). I'll keep it running...

Yes, there are no D traits I can identify with the Starke... it's more like tube/solid state hybrid. They are releasing an improved version this summer, for apparently the same low price, so I'll probably swing for that...this is a view of the current set up...The KTE will look lovely here