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...

Apologies before blurring the distinction between drivers and firmware - was reading too early before my morning coffee. Ian does say the Amanero Combo384 firmware he used supported both DSD512 and PCM768, noting the focus of his post was on getting DSD512 working. His Roon screenshot shows...

I have some electronics relay clicking on switch-on. Have to be up close to unit. Same with external internal clock change I believe. Nothing loud or concerning, just what it does.

Interesting explanation of the PCM & DSD rate limits of the DI-24HE thanks @sajunky . Clearly a complex area with some catches that are not that intuitively obvious to a new or prospective user like me with limited knowledge of OS/driver compatibility limitations. As a matter of interest does...

Cheers. So it turns out the Flux-50, or at least one that someone else bought from another vendor literally has a filter built in. From this vendor in the comments. https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0R8CL0 Something equivalent to the AC-1501R Furutech says in its product blurb is included in the...

I’ve ordered a few things from em and being outside the EU they supply it exclusive of VAT, our local NZ GST of 15% is collected at our border by customs and/or the shipping agent on their behalf.

That might have been at my recommendation sorry! I wonder if there is some vendor to vendor variation. Like I say I’ll have to test em again but I’d like to think the improvements in my system weren’t all in my imagination, would be concerning if so! For what it’s worth I measured wirh and...

Thanks for the comments. I need to evaluate the Flux-50s’ effect again, removing and adding them back to see the delta as a lot has changed in my system since I got them, as I don’t recall any negatives. Testing my memory a bit now but IIRC a range of aspects like soundstage depth, length of...

I posted about this upthread. Under EU VAT rules if the annual distance sales from a company located in one EU country to customers in another country exceed the EU threshold of €10k the VAT rate of the destination county must be applied. Audiophonics would be well over 10k for most if not all...

Quite possibly, I don’t have enough experience with a broad range of higher end speakers. What I’ve definitely found is synergy is super important. Including just this week Class A vs Class D amps for example. I should add the ‘ruthlessly revealing’ comment was a not particularly scientific one...