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In Reply to: RE: It's just posted by fmak on June 16, 2016 at 09:17:41
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to you, when you selectively quote item cost as opposed to system cost.
apply to both PCs?
I'm seeing apples vs apples in comparing the server component.
No, one is holistic, the other a randomised (trial and error for one system) combination.
All the other stuff (except for the JR Software) was in both evaluation systems, *holistic* or not. :)
Got your point but JRiver is there and not the other 'optimising' software suites that are all individually aimed at 'better' sound.
I know for a fact that some of this timing stuff can actually make audio sound poorer. We don't even know why particular 'timings' have been chosen and neither do they except by ear on their systems which are not universal.
I know for a fact that some of this timing stuff can actually make audio sound poorer.
Of course it can.
That's got nothing at all to do with IJG's quoted comment about having spent $10k on other stuff on his PC system to which you agreed.
"That's got nothing at all to do with IJG's quoted comment about having spent $10k on other stuff on his PC system to which you agreed."
And to which said reviewer clearly denied having done, even down to the last stock power adapter.
But welcome to the world of 'fmak'. The master of the obscure post and of the attempt to change the subject.
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Where did Steve deny spending loads of money on his PC set up? He did say that he did not upgrade the power supply, that is all I saw.
The Synergistic Tranq Base is over 2 grand alone from what I understand. Then..how about the power conditioning?
Maybe Steve can detail his set up him self. I don't see it on AS.
Isaak is correct. The Asus sat on a Synergistic Research Tranquility Base UEF. The Asus is plugged into a Shunyata DPC-6 v2 power conditioner.
The Syrah also sat on a Tranquility Base UEF ( not the one pictured ). It was plugged into the Shunyata DPC-6 with a Shunyata Alpha Digital AC cord. The Merlot was plugged into the Shunyata Triton v2 / Typhon with a Shunyata Sigma Digital AC cord.
The Merlot sat on a Tranquility Base.
I also tried the Syrah and Merlot directly on the wooden shelves. It did sound better on the Bases, but the sound was consistent either way and not the result of the Bases.
I like evaluating components plugged into the full Shunyata stack as I am hearing the component and not the effect of the AC and component interaction. I get a purer sense of the sound of the component.
Why do I suspect that fmak won't like this?
Thank you Steve. We want to be factually correct about Lucy's system. :)
Lucy's system will be changing soon. She has authorized the Twenty Series updates for my Ayre MX-R amps and KX-R preamp.
As long as she approves...certainly not a sea change...
Ok, the $64,000 question!!! Will the PBD gear, one or the other, or both, be staying?
I!m afraid not. Everything went back the other day. The Ayre upgrade cleaned me out.
Boo Hoo! :)
Any other file player/network streamers coming your way?
don't know what you are on about?
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