Those are great PSU’s, seems like a good deal!
Pulled the trigger, should have the set next week. Can't wait to be click free, hopefully the SQ improvement will be obvious to me as well.
Note: You'll never be done
Agreed, I was just hoping to finally officially (temporarily?) graduate to tweaks, like cable upgrades and power conditioners.
I mean I really thought I was getting there, this transport was supposed to be the last piece of the puzzle dammit!
Before I start the cycle all over again, if I live long enough...
I'm still getting there, this was just a slight detour on the road to perceived component completion.
My old Gumby still screams for Schiit's upgrades, this just delayed it a bit.
Speaking of the Gungnir... I had an interesting time playing connection master for a bit. I realized that I had some untried options, one obvious and one that just worked out. Also a nice surprise.
In fact I was 'worried' that I would be able to get rid of the click
without the W4S unit, after I had considered these options but before trying them. The obvious alternate solution was a 1m glass toslink cable I had lying around. If the cable can make a difference, this is among the best of optical which seems different even if it's not; it's all spdif right? Unfortunately no dice, clickity clack with the glass in place.
My next option came to mind because I had been substituting my old Matrix DAC for the Gungnir for testing purposes, and I realized that it had a BNC input and a RCA coax out. So I put the Gungnir back into its place in my system, but with the Mini-i acting hopefully to enhance spdif timekeeping with the transport. Or something lol. Same as the optical cable, this exercise ultimately made no difference either.
The nice surprise was I had been a bit frustrated with the computer aspect of my listening, as I still have the Gen1 USB and I wanted to use toslink from my Mac laptops. Unfortunately my newish Air and my really old Powerbook (still runs PureMusic over iTunes) don't have toslink outputs in them; the former was too late and the latter too early. My old MBP would've been great, but it's dead and buried.
But I had been using an old Halide Designs/Devilsound USB>Spdif Converter cable with the Matrix and an old Mac Mini, and that plays wonderfully with the Macbook Air. Like really, really nice through my old D/S Gumby. I don't have Amarra installed yet, but the cable with Gumby is EQ'd so nice that I'm in no hurry to hunt down my user code.
In conclusion I have to state the obvious, that the Mini-i, as nice as it is for what it is, can't hold a candle to Gumby. Clean and smooth, but obviously not in the same league. It was nice to go down memory lane for a song or two, but that's about it. After an album I was back to Gumby and the clicking CD transport. And then back to the vinyl, for now. The show marches on...
I can't wait to try this new schiit out with my existing schiit next week, right before I tear all the schiit down again so I can move it next door. Then I'll set this shiit up right.