If you’re concerned about oxidation get the rhodium plated. It you want to maximise conductivity get the pure silver, noting from @TheAttorney ’s experience with titanium conductivity is clearly not the only factor. Solid silver was my choice for conductivity reasons. I’ll likely try a thin...

You need to turn PCM NOS and DSD Direct in the settings Menu to OFF.

Great robust discussion here of use of solid metal slugs - with and without a Swiss Digital Fuse Box. OP who experimented with quite a few metals much preferred silver and titanium over copper...

Potentially, but not necessarily.. it depends, lots of variables. Hitting the road now for a long weekend so that’s all I can say for now.

Re free I tend to think of ‘mods’ as irreversible (or at least require a lot of effort) vs tweaks which are reversible/removable with a little effort. All mine are in the latter category, though to be fair some are getting closer to the mod end of the spectrum: Vibration damping/isolation...

I can’t recommend any yet, but I thought I’d try solid silver, Xangsane have a good reputation for using high quality silver in their cables. Note it is not a fuse, so I can’t recommend replacing a fuse with this and leaving it, would be a potential fire and electrical shock hazard in the...

Not I. I have the pictured solid pure silver sluggo I’ve yet to try - very temporarily - as a proof of concept in a few devices incl the UIP. Will be different to an audiophile fuse of course which won’t have the same current throughput but will have RFI and or vibration damping materials the...

Just checked for you.. 1A, 5mm x 20mm

I have the Black Ravioli Big Pads Plus on order which I’ll try on a few devices incl my master clock, will let you know how they go.

Cheers fellas, glad it’s working for you both too. And to Phoenix owners, apologies for the slightly OT chat I’ve prompted, but I’d be interested to hear someone else try it with their Phoenix, fancy Sean Jacobs PSU and all…

This is the ADuM4166 USB isolator/regenerator @sajunky refers. It looks well designed and built for USD69 and provides for an external DC power supply. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006722494609.html

Gieseler Audio USB Reingen Incidentally for folk in the market for a USB regenerator/reclocker, here's another option I only became aware of recently - the Reingen by Australia-based Gieseler Audio. It also uses the ADuM 4165/66 chip which is apparently also used by Antipodes Audio. The...

Nice - I hear the Wandla matches and betters the new LAiV in several respects, sounds a great DAC. As a matter of interest I see the U18 & OCK-2 still in your sig - do you find they improve the Wandla also? Also, while I’m at it, I note a couple of Tubulus Concentus cables… how do you find em...

This is the one I have in front of the LHY - used with Ifi Power X + DC iPurifier2 - effect of both very audible. It is crazy. Very hard to predict what will sound better as a combination using theory (apart from selecting individual items using principles of like power quality, isolation...

Perhaps if you could link to the particular USB dongle you are referring to as not to confuse other readers of this thread who may be unsure what you are referring, If it’s the same as my AliX one, it’s a basic but good quality galvanic isolator with option for an external power supply. I...

Remarkably it does help, as I said on the Audio-Gd thread. Even helps in front of the far more expensive Innuous Phoenix, though it seems certain combos are not necessarily better.. eg putting the LHY before the Phoenix or the Holo Titanis before the LHY. Not super intuitive. Assume an even...

The LHY UIP galvanically isolates and reclocks the input USB signal signal to deliver a clean output signal - a nice neat “eye pattern” (meaning low jitter), free of upstream electrical noise. The high level of galvanic isolation of the ADuM chip used effectively blocks electrical noise carried...

Super cool, looks great. Love the corners.

Awesome to hear the R26 is working so well for you! Another happy HQP PCM768 user. Just upgraded my power amp from a Hypex Nilai to a Pass Labs (paired with my Athena pre) and my R26-based system is singing like never before! Dynamic & deft, weighty & spacious.. just excellent.

+1 / 100% agree re critical importance of time domain accuracy. This from experimentation with external clocks on several DACs and DDCs, including improving their power supplies, grounding and vibration damping, incl DIY direct vibration damping of oscillators both external and internal. It’s...

I have been using the second USB isolator you linked for some months now. It’s very effective. Powered by an Ifi Power X + DC iPurifier which together are quite low ripple. Inserting it very noticeably improves both the LHY UIP and the Innuous PhoenixUSB vs each direct from my server. Also tried...

O Sorry mate, I am unfamiliar with his products, they seem to be semi-DIY modular design with multiple options for components to be combined together. Suggest read the two linked articles then compare what he refers to his website product listings. You could also ask a qn to him via email or...

Ian Canada’s streamer setup experimentation with Spring 3 from late last year, as more recently also used with the R26 in the comparison above. https://iancanada.ca/blogs/news/improve-holo-spring3-r2r-dac-with-fifo-re-clocked-ddc-streamer-transport-and-sc-pure-clocks He notes the positive...

Thanks to @sajunky who pointed me to this really interesting DIY audio thread to search for some information on PCM768 support on an Amanero USB chipset, the same chipset used by the excellent Audio-Gd DI-20HE and DI-24HE DDCs, I stumbled across this post comparing the Spring 3 and the R26 by...

OK I’ll defer to your (much) greater knowledge here. I guess I was just asking as a) he made that statement re PCM768 support and b) on my Mac Min Roon with the DI-20HE only PCM384 and below rates were selectable as options (presumably based on USB comms between the Amanero 384Combo board which...