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  1. I agree wholeheartedly, the HD 650 is a universal standard, and it's always useful to see it discussed in a headphone review. Because if the reviewer thinks the HD 650 is wonderful, I need to discount the rest of the review. 🙃 Preferences vary so widely, and so do systems. A system can be symbiotic with any particular headphone, or work against it, even when the specs say everything is compatible. For example, an HD 650 with a Bottlehead Crack makes it almost tolerable. I love my Grado GH4 and Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro (Analytical pads), which I have compared to multi-kilobuck planars and electrostatics, and found nothing to envy. But I have a couple of different headphone systems, and each headphone excels in one situation. Josh thinks Grado and Beyerdynamic are too bright. Chacun a son gout, which is why I think this was a great article. There is no universal truth in audio.
  2. The CD Doctor kit does more than clean, it is a buffing compound that will remove a scratch. There are instructions for repairing light scuffs and scrapes, and a more in-depth procedure for deep scratches. I've only used this on a few discs where simple cleaning didn't solve the problem. I would have liked to provide a link to the product but it looks like it's no longer available. Too bad, it was a useful tool.
  3. There's no point in using more than 16GB in an sMS-200. Waste of money.
  4. The first thing I do with a damaged disc is to polish it with CD Doctor: "Repairs scratched CDs and DVDs"
  5. Same here. I had a couple of CD's that were severely compromised when played in a CD transport, and took several hours to rip, successfully. Whichever software you use, it's important to tick the box for error checking.
  6. Some of us experienced unreliable performance with an 8Gb card, and May recommended going higher, in an email to me.
  7. Are you sure about that? Any router I've looked required at least 2.5A. The LPS-1.2 maximum guaranteed output current is 1.1A.
  8. I have a recommendation in a similar vein: Chico Freeman, "Spirit Sensitive".
  9. I tried wi-fi, ethernet cable and fiber optic cable in my desktop system and my main system. In both cases, wi-fi had the poorest sound quality, fiber optic the best.
  10. @dbastin Reclocking is done in the FMC, not the SFP: "Media converters are often switches, and switches are often media converters" https://planetechusa.com/choose-media-converters/ "The Sonore opticalModule Deluxe is a bi-directional fiber media converter (FMC) that isolates ethernet devices from noise. " https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/products/opticalmodule-deluxe You asked whether wi-fi would be superior. I went from wi-fi to copper to optical, and each step was a sonic upgrade.
  11. Isolation filters are not always beneficial. I use an iFi LAN iSilencer and a pair of LAN Isolators in my secondary systems, but none in my main system. Adding one of these LAN filters to my main system degrades the sound quality, because they are not of sufficient quality. I am careful however to use shield-tied cables appropriately. I have not tried any of the premium LAN Isolators. My main chain is NAS > Silent Angel N8 > oMD > 50' fiber with Finisar SFPs > ER > exaSound streamer and DAC All except the NAS use linear power supplies. Here's an interesting review: Finally, the Delock. This is a very goofy thing. We get a very strong sense of listening to a “tunnel” of music. The focus is good, but the width is gone from the stereo image. Very weird. What this teaches is that the environment determines the result. If the network is already in order, then this tweak is not really necessary. But in a standard network, this easily applied filter can certainly give a nice result. https://www.alpha-audio.net/review/review-english-electric-ee1-network-filter/2/
  12. That is a myth. From tests with my system and a friend's, changes in cables, switches and power supplies upstream of a fiber conversion affect the sound significantly.
  13. If you want to try fiber, you would remove the ethernet cable from the switch to the ER and add an FMC, fiber optic cable and two SFPs, between your network switch and the ER. The B-side connection remains as is.
  14. Yes. the ER acts as an FMC, along with all the other things it does. Sure. but Side-B should be connected to your renderer/DAC. I have a switch upstream for my router, NAS and PC. The oMD is connected to the upstream switch via ethernet cable, and to the ER via fiber. The ER A-side feeds a TV and Chromecast audio streamer and cleans up the sound on both.
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