No other single change in audio gear has sucked me into my listening chair like this NOS 11. I know its kind of cliche here on HF, but I truly am re-discovering my music collection.
I am quickly bitten by the "get the last 10% performance out of this thing" bug.
If I was going to spend ~$500 to make an improvement to my source/transport (high end gaming PC w/ corsair ax1500i -> Belkin gold USB -> Nos 11), are there opinions about best bang for the buck?
It seems like people are replacing USB altogether with aoip (Rednet, etc.) or PCIExpress cards (lynx, pink faun), or trying to improve their USB transport, which seems to fall into two categories: digital to digital converter (singxer, mutec, and many others) or something to improve the signal quality (uptone regen, intona isolator)
I have spent the past few weeks reading the entirety of the Master 11 thread, and many threads related to source/transport. There was great enthusiastic discussion in this thread, but the source/transport threads have left me scratching my head. I don't have the money or time to try many different options, and I have really enjoyed reading about bimmer100 and other's journey through many of these devices. So, I'd love to hear thoughts at my price point.