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Hello all - I wanted to ask if anyone has upgraded the internal SSD in an Innuos Zenith? I have only read that the kit needs to be sent back to the factory, but it seems simple enough to do it at home. I just haven't read of anyone successfully doing that. Thanks Kenreau

Thanks for the review! I am so exited the sound quality lives up to Flea's proclamation and they are promoting this. Hopefully starting a new market or industry trend. Wouldn't it be cool if sound quality was hip in the major markets. I watched Flea's video promotion (on Insta) and you could see in his room a wall of vinyl in the background, tt and a couple of small tube mono blocks. I love it. Ranking the new album up there with BSSM and Californication is high praise indeed, also my favorites. I've got it on my shopping list. Thanks Kenreau

View Classified FS:Coris Linear Power Supply upgrade for Oppo 203 & 205 This is an audiophile/videophile Coris Linear Power Supply upgrade for Oppo 203 & 205. Brand new, never used. I purchased it back this spring and ended up going another direction with a Panasonic 9000 and never installed it in my Oppo 203. Coris specializes in high end Linear Power Supplies and has posts at AVS Forum (search Oppo Coris), DIY Audio and What's Best Forums. Very high quality and well built. Users report significant upgrades to audio and video picture quality with the vastly improved clean power supply. Switching power supplies, while cheap and efficient, add noise and grain to players performance. Picked over the Oppomod version due to better parts, design and execution. Looking for $375 net to me, includes free ground shipping in lower 48 USA only. Price just lowered (7/23) to $350 Seller kenreau Date 06/21/21 Price 350.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers  

I'm in the same hunt, combo streamer and DAC all-in-one. Thinking hard about the Auralic Vega G1. Would be very interested in recommendations for similar main stream products in the $3K to $4K retail price range. Thx Kenreau

Looking to put together my first audio system to be able to utilize ROON in my house living room. I am primarily struggling with a basic system architecture to provide the ROON endpoint (I think...). My desire is for a K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) platform for wife and family use, plus I'm not going for the upper echelons of sound quality given the intended general recreational use (not critical listening) My current system context is; Using Aurender S5W wireless speakers. To be controlled by iphone or ipads (and wireless source of music access, streaming) I have a Synology DiskStation DS412+ with 4 bays of 4 TB Deskstar drives. Music files of approx. 2.8 TB. I subscribe to TIDAL. I have available in a separate basement isolated home theater space an Anthem MRX 1120 HT Receiver and an OPPO UDP-203 universal player. These are both connected to my home network by Ethernet cables. Open to the possibility of using these if practical. From my current limited knowledge, I think I may need some appliance like a NUC, MacMini or ROON Nucleus as the ROON Core. These could network access to my Synology NAS files. Or, an alternative is to possibly upgrade my NAS to a newer, more powerful model like a QNAP with the intel core i3 processor (per ROON website recommendations) as an all in one solution. Am I in the ballpark of what I need to assemble? Any strong consensus to go one particular direction? Thanks in advance Kenreau

I'm curious if there is a status quo, or consensus, for the security/ firewall? I recall pfsense being highly regarded not too long ago. I have Century link for a service provider. Thx kenreau

Thanks, KunterK, looking forward to your sharing of info and findings. Kenreau

Excellent news, KunterK, thanks for posting this. I've had that upgrade on my wish list for some time. I will plan to execute this upgrade this fall sometime (after weather changes and activities migrate inside). Thx Kenreau

...Those purchasing a nova now can upgrade the nova with WiFi, when released by Peachtree, without a labor charge... Sounds like a great product. I'm in the market for something similar and was considering a NAD 7050, or Bluesound product. I will give this a hard look. Have they discussed when the wifi upgrade should be available? Thx Kenreau

I did just come to terms with the trade for a N10 I was looking for. Consider the W20 sold. Thank you Kenreau

SOLD 11 June 2016. Thanks Kenreau

AudioQuest Castle Rock biwire speaker cables with DBS. 2.5 meters (8 Feet) long. $1,500 new. Sell for $750. Paypal adds 3%. Shipping included to lower 48 USA. Fantastic build and sound quality. Great condition overall. Spades do have normal marks from use of binding posts. I do have a set of the standard silver plated spade connectors and the special narrow silver plated ones for fitting on Vandersteen terminals. You get your choice of one type. I used these to great effect on my Vandersteen 5As. From AQ website; RIP Gibraltar, long live Castle Rock! Like Gibraltar before it, Castle Rock is designed as an extremely high-performance cable which provides true Double-BiWire performance in a single attractive cable. Original Gibraltar's all important basics -- superior geometry, magnetic autonomy of each quad-conductor section, Perfect-Surface metal technology, conductor-size optimization (AQ's Spread-Spectrum Technology), etc. -- are the fundamentals of Castle Rock. Castle Rock employs AQ's best copper conductor metal (Perfect-Surface Copper+), AudioQuest's DBS (Dielectric-Bias System) and NDS (Noise-Dissipation System). A very recent advancement featured in Castle Rock (and all other Tree and Rock Series speaker cables) is the addition of the sleek new "Hanging-Silver" 1000 Series Multi-Spades and Bananas. Originally developed for the WEL Signature Series speaker cables, these plugs are made using a "hanging silver over pure red-copper" process in which the spades and bananas are submerged ("hung") into a vat of extreme-purity silver, resulting in a very thick direct-silver plate. No intermediary performance-degrading materials (such as nickel or alloy) are used. Also new to Castle Rock is a more-neatly-sculpted "breakout" (the covering where the cable separates into red and black legs), which is now made of a synthetic non-magnetic polymer, rather than metal. We're making this all-models upgrade because speaker cables and AC power cables carry large magnetic fields which interact with any metal "collar" around the cable. Eliminating metal in the breakouts is another significant (and clearly audible) step forward in our goal of eliminating distortion and making the cable sonically "invisible." Please note too that AudioQuest now offers a Single-BiAmp option for any Rocket, Rock or Tree Series speaker cable, including Castle Rock. Although similar to a Single-BiWire configuration in which the speaker end has four connectors, the Single-BiAmp configuration also has four connectors at the amplifier end to accommodate the growing number of users who wish to take full advantage of all the amplifier channels in many of today's AV receivers and multichannel power amplifiers. Castle Rock represents the culmination of Gibraltar's long-term evolution along with performance- enhancing new systems and materials. These ingredients add up to important audible improvements and more pleasurable listening! see more at AUDIOQUEST CASTLE ROCK SPEAKER CABLES at Music Direct

Me too.....8-} Kenreau

The warranty is good through January 2017 and transferrable to a new owner. Thx Kenreau

Hey Juanitox - I'm really interested in the upgrades to the Airport Express and the clean 3.3V power supply you mention. Can you reply with some addition information, or links to point me in the right direction? Thx Kenreau