I found this too - an audible negative effect of having wifi switched on router - even on low transmit power and after inserting fibre media converters between router and downstream gear and putting copper shielding between (and around) router and audio gear. Pretty inconvenient having wifi off...

Not claiming to be one of the knowledgeable dudes you’re seeking comment from but if it was me I’d go for the LAiV, I know there’s a bit of hype but a few reviewers I rate especially Srbo from IIWI Reviews (and I guess Srajan of 6Moons who bought his review copy) rate it as a decent step up from...

Awesome, great work! 😁👏 Sounds like in several respects (thickness of copper, extent of MuMetal use - I’ve just done my transformers so far) you’ve gone a step beyond me. The low end punch thing in particular ifs pretty satisfying and unexpected eh. For the record the cardboard boxes were a...

Suspect it depends a bit on one’s system, but I found the same with Bubble, Jplay and Roon/HQP (latter best). I also found Roon sounds better with my iPad Air 5th gen rather than a Samsung phone running Roon remote. After observing this I then read about some guys on another forum coincidentally...

Always interesting hearing what directions folk go. Tell ya what has made my mileage vary with the R26 quite a lot of late - feeding it with a ludicrously OTT USB source - the PhoenixUSB. Quite a bit more body, warmth and natural flow. Ditto re the LHY UIP to a lesser extent. But then yesterday...

That sounded a little too good to be true to me - I’m not even from the EU and sure enough a quick google shows it’s not that simple. As soon as the annual supplies from a company/distribution centre in one EU country exceed the threshold of the recipient EU country (typically a mere €10k, which...

But that’s just your standard 20% VAT right - realistically LAiV were never going to take a 20% (or more, or less.. 15% GST here) hit on a globally fixed USD2,700 sales price vs other jurisdictions that have no sales tax/import duties. Free lunches, death and taxes etc. The free shipping though...

You can hear the overall tonality and presentation differences easily enough for yourself (even over YT) here... though to be fair VirtualHifi's comparison vids are up there with Alpha Audio as some of the best mic'd and recorded on YT.

That correct re their oscillator frequencies, I understand the LHY UIP and a similar SoTM USB regenerator use an internal clock sythesiser to convert the 10Mhz reference to the 24Mhz frequency needed for USB. Higher frequency isn’t automatically better but all things equal (incl assuming...

Had noticed same re their FMC.

Here’s some impressions adding the LHYUIP (+OCK2) in front of the Phoenix: cavernous soundstage depth with extended decay, amazing layering and instrument placement.. so much space between soundstage elements Very busy multilayered music sections are a little more coherent, easier to follow the...

Very sorry @m-i-c-k-e-y . Well needless to say I couldn’t resist the temptation to - in Ghostbusters speak - cross the streams and use the LHY UIP to feed the Phoenix, with the UIP both internally and externally clocked. You don’t really need me to tell you what happened.. just plot a mental...

Cheers for the feedback. This one was recently acquired second hand so assume well burned in.

...for what I’ve been hearing - is that the more precise timing along with cleaner power - helps generate a much cleaner electrical eye pattern* in the output USB stream (which at an electrical level in the conductors in a USB cable is an analogue wave) that makes the job of the recipient device...

LHY UIP + Audio-Gd DI-20HE vs Innuous PhoenixUSB - round one The Phoenix is the eight hundred pound gorilla at GBP3k/USD4K weighing in at well over than twice the price of the UIP & DI20HE combo which comes in at USD1.6k. I already knew the Phoenix was pretty special as I’ve listened to it...

Happy to discuss in more length over PM, but yes, in a nutshell the LHY UIP performs best with my external clock. This makes sense to me as for its asking price of USD500 there’s only so much quality OCXO they can include. Note I’ve done more than a few tweaks to my OCK-2 (incl multiple grounds...

Yes it occurred to me after I might’ve accidentally plugged it into the wrong one.. was battling with one of those heavy garden hose like LMR400 cables. Will try again tomorrow. For now I’m just about to dial up the Phoenix incl feeding the DI-20HE with it which is what Brett plans to do with...

Quick qn re DI-20HE - how can I tell what the Ext clock input impedance is 75/50ohms etc and does it take square or sine or both? I ask as I tried to use one of my spare ports on the OCK-2 (square + 75ohm I believe) to the DI-20HE but it said FAIL or similar error message when I tried to switch...

...to the DI20HE than it is to the U18 a distant third/fourth) it combines with the DI20HE to produce a sound that’s greater than the sum of the parts*. Lush, detailed, expansive.. magic. Initial impressions up here…...

Your question is timely as I spent a good chunk of an overcast, blowy ANZAC day (WWI memorial holiday here) finally getting the DI-20HE up and running incl with the UIP, incl with external clocks. I’m listening to that combo right now, and it sounds superb. Getting into the theoretical whys of...

Lol good memory re the BT antenna, I did actually put back the pigtail (or whatever they call that short internal coax) but removed the antenna and capped it with foil. But anyway.. resistors and such are a bit outside my DIY comfort zone which doesn’t extend much beyond adding MuMetal shields...

Will try other inputs tonight after work. I’m sure they’ll be fine.

The combo over i2S defaults to DSD ‘signal’ on the R26 display and you can’t change it, even of the source is PCM. Reason is on PIN 15 Gustard DACs expect a DSD on/off aignal that Audio-gd doesn’t send. So to get any sound at all need to change source music format in HQP or Roon to DSD to match...

Cheers for the feedback and suggestion. Seems likely it’s a pin 15 incompatibility I agree, R26 works fine with the Singxer SU-6 that provides for a signal on Pin 15 in one of its configs. If only there was a common i2S standard eh rather than the current free for all. For the purpose of this...

Most likely pin 15 yep, not yet re other connections was late last night.