Digital Nirvana?

Streaming Audio
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Just to be clear, the answer is NO.

BUT, I am enjoying the best digital audio I ever have at home having made four changes.

This is based upon:

  1. Good well matched components;
  2. Good grounding;
  3. Good equipment support.

The changes:

  1. Upgraded the support under my DAC, PSU and pre-amp to Isoacoustic iso-pucks;
  2. Upgraded my Audiostore Prestige II. Rebuilt to Ultra including 16GB RAM & 12th gen CPU;
  3. Used Mosaic to feed my dCS NB; and
  4. Added a pair of super-tweeters.

I would not say any was more important than the others. They each made a tad of difference, that was additive.

What was the difference?

I will describe the difference in one area - cymbals.

I have spent many years listening to the real thing. They are never sharp. With some of my music they could be just that bit over insistent. Something that doesn’t happen on vinyl, although that can have its own issues.

Now the ring, whether struck or brushed. They form a better part of the sound-stage.

The music is more RELAXED.

Doesn’t mean it is perfect. But, I feel the system is doing a better job of giving me the music, and what is left is irreconcilable issues in the recording.

Has a friend over for a long listening session last night. It was interesting to switch to Qobuz, he wanted to listen to Copland’s, ‘The Tender Land’.

The music was still excellent, but those upper frequencies didn’t land quiet so well.

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It is good to hear that you are enjoying your system.

I had an Audiostore server from 2014, but after a hard disk failure in 2021 I rebuilt it myself. It meant I lost Bliss but got Vortexbox 2.4, upped RAM to 4gB but had then only 256gB disk space. So it was relegated to my office system with the Squeezelite player the only bit of it in use. I now have an Innuos Zen with 2TB of storage.

What player software or streamer are you using?

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Various.

In my main system I am mainly using dCS Mosaic into my Network Bridge.

The server then hosts my audio files and makes them available via Minimserver.

I also use the WiiM Ultra, Meridian 210 and Chord 2go/2yu.

With these I often use Roon.

Last night my nearfield system was using the Chord 2go/2yu. I was using Lyrian, hosted on the Audiostore. Excellent, into Nuforce 9 pre, VMV A1 class A power via the Hugo TT powered by a Ferrum Hypsos. Through the PS Audio FR5.

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I like this. It’s very much in line with what I look for, having been a drummer for many years and going through ‘00s of cymbals to compile the perfect set of Zildjians, I know exactly what you mean.

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Sounds like a line from a detective movie :grin:

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