Stick with rca. Converting b/w the 2 adds several variables not worth dealing with, IMO.

As promised from my review video, here are some additional thoughts on Liric 2’s signal chain pairings. A few notes to set this up… Clearly it’s unusual for me to make a supplemental post like this in addition to a 45 minute review video on YouTube. I was quite positive about the Liric 2 in...

No worries. I'm just making sure we're understanding each other. I appreciate your support. Enjoy the music, my friend! :beerchug:

I use the opening segment of every video to talk about how I sourced the unit at hand. If it's a loan from a manufacturer, retailer, or private individual, I say so. If I know I get to keep it before I film the review (I don't always) I say that too. If I buy it, I say so. To me the key is...

I'm not going to make a habit of answering these questions here but I'll drop a free sample... Erzetich Perfidus. No joke. It's single ended only though so you'll have to put more thought into dac matching than something that has balanced in. I'd look at Chord Hugo 2 or Qutest.

Hi, all. I really want to thank everyone for watching and commenting. I value community feedback. After all, I do this review work to (hopefully) benefit potential buyers of all of this stuff...and NOT just because playing with all this audio gear is buckets of fun (as I'm sure I don't have to...

Congrats! Lake People's amps have been consistently excellent IME. I agree with @Fegefeuer that your next move should likely be a DAC upgrade. Depending on your budget even something like the Schiit Bifrost 2 is a pretty good match to the G111 and will be a noticeably step up from the Element's...

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I don't buy the premise that we're lacking observation. We have lots of reports - granted anecdotes from individuals - claiming audible differences in DACs, amps, and cables (since that's the impetus for this thread). We have over a century of electromagnetic signal transmission theory that...

That's a big claim to make in light of the lack of well defined thresholds for phase audibility in various contexts in the literature combined with the staggering range of music on this planet and the nigh limitless combinations of gear that can be assembled to play it back. Can we really...

Poking around on the REW website a bit, I haven't been able to confirm how the REW software suite performs the frequency-response test. I assume it is similar to how the FR sweep tests from miniDSP and others works, but I want to confirm. Could you give me a description, as step by step as...

Found it! I came looking for this after seeing your comment on YT. Thanks for putting this work in. I appreciate your efforts. I have not had a chance to go over this in detail yet but rest assured I will take the time to analyze your argument and data. A quick note of response on one...

I have also heard this was a fairly standard practice once upon a time. In this brave new world of self-publishing on Head-Fi, YouTube, and other platforms I think reviewing models and expectations for reviewers and reviewing are changing. IMO a reviewer choosing to publish reviews on only those...

If I may shamelessly self-promote here, I revisited the Radiance on my YT channel. I'll link here. I'm a big fan of the Radiance and think everyone should at least hear it:

It actually makes perfect physical sense. As frequency goes up, sound waves become more directional. With speakers/subwoofers, the bass driver(s) are almost always built into an enclosure because low frequency waves are nearly omnidirectional. Since the driver pushes air in both directions, the...

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Woof, dude. Sorry to hear you've had a rough ride with them. Thanks for watching and posting my review here. You're right I didn't comment on customer service as I've had no interactions with Rosson - the man or the company - so I have nothing to say about that aspect. But if I were Rosson or...

This is a good analogy and I can see where you're coming from, for sure. To my ears the Susvara was immediately captivating because of how organic and natural it sounds. The combination of its very well-balanced tonality, its time-domain behavior with attacks and decays, and its superior but not...

At the risk of beating a dead horse I'll say again that talking about amp pairings with Susvara is challenging because of how sweet and nice Susvara is. When it's not properly powered or matched well it mostly just softens in its overall sound; staging and detail retrieval get a but mushier and...

OK, gotcha. That is indeed unfortunate.

Do you not see something like this: in the web interface for your NEO Stream?

I thought this was a DAC thread, not a fashion show! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: :laughing: Yeah an IR beam could probably pass through the fabric of a hoodie pouch well enough. With that use case they probably should have called it the Joey, not the Hugo, hahaha. Also, that reminds me...

Well at least I'm not stupid...on this matter 😆 Not sure how @kajetanjazz is getting that to work.

I'm gonna have to use the remote more. I thought it was an IR remote and wouldn't work if the sensor was covered up...unless IR waves pass through fabrics well enough :thinking: If so, or it's an RF remote and I'm just stupid lol, that's an elegant solution. Good find!

About a week ago I switched to the NEO Stream's optibox and that decreased the Roon dropouts. They aren't completely gone but they are noticeably less frequent and shorter lived when they do happen. Mostly I notice it when the bitrate display on my Berkeley Alpha S2 DAC flashes at me. I've been...