pvanosta
Member
First of all: a BIG thank you to Amir for saving me quite a bit of money on Cables, 'Audiophile' network switches and USB purifiers
After more than 30 years of 'Audiophilia Nervosa', I stumbled onto Amir's work thanks to a posting on the Devialet owners forum.
I was looking at info on Audiophile switches (Etherregen, Bonn Silent Angel N8 and English Electric) after reading several reviews in 'respected' High End magazines, thinking this might be a next step in the neverending quest for sonic Nitrvana.
My system:
Synology NAS with 26,000 albums / 450,000 tracks
Gigabit ethernet cabling everywhere (no Wifi in the A/V chain)
Roon ROCK on a fanless NUC
Devialet expert pro 440, used as Roon endpoint/streamer, DAC, pre and power amp
Marten Django XL speakers
Regular Cat7 cables for all ethernet connections
Speaker cables and SPDIF connection between the Devialet master and slave: Tubulus Argentus (a local Dutch brand with reasonably priced cables of good quality)
As I hit the brick wall of the law of diminishing returns (every component with an audible difference means a doubling of that component's cost), I still keep an eye open for potential tweaks and improvements, which brought me to read about cables, switches, etc.
Thankfully, I found Amir's video reviews, which saved me a good deal of money. (the clip about the expensive AQ RCA interconnect was also enlightening)
Now my question:
Do power conditioners fall under the same snake oil header as the other stuff? I read somewhere that class D amps (like my Devialet) are more sensitive to power line noise/artifacts than the traditional class A/B types and might therefore benefit from the use of a good powerline conditioner.
What is this forum's view on this? And apologies if this is in the wrong subforum.
After more than 30 years of 'Audiophilia Nervosa', I stumbled onto Amir's work thanks to a posting on the Devialet owners forum.
I was looking at info on Audiophile switches (Etherregen, Bonn Silent Angel N8 and English Electric) after reading several reviews in 'respected' High End magazines, thinking this might be a next step in the neverending quest for sonic Nitrvana.
My system:
Synology NAS with 26,000 albums / 450,000 tracks
Gigabit ethernet cabling everywhere (no Wifi in the A/V chain)
Roon ROCK on a fanless NUC
Devialet expert pro 440, used as Roon endpoint/streamer, DAC, pre and power amp
Marten Django XL speakers
Regular Cat7 cables for all ethernet connections
Speaker cables and SPDIF connection between the Devialet master and slave: Tubulus Argentus (a local Dutch brand with reasonably priced cables of good quality)
As I hit the brick wall of the law of diminishing returns (every component with an audible difference means a doubling of that component's cost), I still keep an eye open for potential tweaks and improvements, which brought me to read about cables, switches, etc.
Thankfully, I found Amir's video reviews, which saved me a good deal of money. (the clip about the expensive AQ RCA interconnect was also enlightening)
Now my question:
Do power conditioners fall under the same snake oil header as the other stuff? I read somewhere that class D amps (like my Devialet) are more sensitive to power line noise/artifacts than the traditional class A/B types and might therefore benefit from the use of a good powerline conditioner.
What is this forum's view on this? And apologies if this is in the wrong subforum.