Sound in a concert hall and sound in a jazz cafe are the same !.. the music is different!
Well, you know what I mean. The environment, the acoustics, etc.
I think maybe I didn’t translate exactly what I wanted to say. It is not about comparing audition rooms, but about how an instrument is heard in reality and how it is reproduced by home equipment.
TomT < is rs130 and rd160 a good combo compared to what you have tried before?
Yes, it is the best combo I ever have so far. Surely it still has weaknesses, but I am quite happy with what it performs.
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Thank you. Nice to know TomT
Can you mention some of your previous streamer/dac combo’s ?
Macintosh, Weiss, Bricasti, Aurender, Eversolo.
Or maybe I’d better say the RS130+Rd160 is the combo that please me most so far.
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I know two of them. Thank you TomT
The sw-10 is still available. Bought one couple months ago. Was happy at the beginning, made my soundstage more dark if I should say so ram with it for a month and decided to try without. I realized all the space, the openness and the details I was losing with the switch so I sold it and went back straight from my router to my rs130.
That bad – the SW10 ? I am expecting its newer version to come. I’d better consider more.
BTW, what router are you using now ?
Here is Montreal we need to use the router provided by our isp. I’m with Bell and they have the Hub 4000, here is a link of the review: Review: Bell Home Hub 4000 | The IT Nerd
It seems to be a very decent modem provided for free. The modem is sitting close to my RS130 and I’m using a Wireworld platinum ethernet cable between both and a Amphenol DAC cable between my RS130 and RD160. I tried optical but I got better result with that DAC cable that is using copper instead of fiber. I have a very revealing system so I’m able to ear any change at any level in my system. I need to be prudent … Adding a network switch between my router and my streamer made me lose quality at the end. By experience, anything with filters also been filtering my music, not only the noise. I tried Shunyata power cable and it was the samething, compare to the power cable at using at similar price, adding a cable with a filter that is suppose to remove noise was working but also removing harmonics in the music.
Thanks for the details. My LAN cable has a filter and it sounds good. But I’ll try to test with another cable without filter to see if harmonics are affected in my case.
Thanks again.