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Darknight

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« on: 9 Jun 2017, 02:40 am »
Happy to be a part of this awesome community. I'm an audiophile who loves listening to jazz, vocals and instrumental music mostly on redbook. I'm intending to explore the LP route this year and hope to pick up some tips on this.

I'm also a believer that power supply is crucial to maximise one's setup. I hope to learn from all of you here on the ways to up my system performance.

dB Cooper

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« Reply #1 on: 9 Jun 2017, 10:06 am »
Welcome to the sweet spot!

JLM

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« Reply #2 on: 9 Jun 2017, 11:45 am »
Welcome.

Power aberrations are, in my experience, a localized phenomenon.  In 40+ years I've tried lots of different tweaks including a power regenerator, going from switching to linear power supply, and battery power and none of them made a significant difference at home.  But I've heard it (was listening in an older light industrial neighborhood before and after the nearby factories shut down for the night) and a vale of grunge lifted.

I finally got direction and courage to rip my CDs about 3 years ago and except for a "friend" who scrambled my iTunes library, it's worked well (after the initial ripping effort).

Gave up on vinyl after literally dropping my turntable 30+ years ago and never looked back as I can't stand surface noise (like fingernails on chalkboard to me).  But it looks expensive these days as clean vinyl is expensive and/or a crap shoot.

The cheapest/easiest approach for sourcing is a PC and a $20/month subscription to CD quality Tidal.

ArthurDent

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« Reply #3 on: 9 Jun 2017, 01:22 pm »
Greetings & Welcome to AC Darknight   :thumb:

Phil A

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« Reply #4 on: 9 Jun 2017, 02:32 pm »
Welcome!