Block Diagrams, System Topologies, and Bears, Oh my! - Members' Systems Deep Dive

My wife does (and plenty of 78s), we don’t have it set up.

I own 7 albums I bought in the 70s - I borrowed a friends pretty good table and recorded them to cassette tapes that I wore out over time. When CDs came out I had a small system at work that grew over the years (along with my CD collection.) But I didn’t really start an audiophile system till the late 90’s.

scotte1,
4k oled’s are wonderful, with colors that are truly jaw-dropping. Once used to the colors of an oled, the coloring of regular led tv’s are a bit of a letdown (but current 4k led tv’s still have very, very good picture quality). Oled’s do have burn-in issues though. Regular tv broadcasts with static logos will burn into the oled tv. It will take time for burn-in to happen, but it will happen, as some colors (red in particular) lose its brightness faster than others. Static red, yellow and green colors are the worst for burn-in.

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I made several upgrades/changes to my system, some major, some not. Figured I would update the diagram. Here it is…

On a conference call this afternoon. Bored out of my gourd. So I threw this together on powerpoint. The EtherREGEN arrives tomorrow but I added it as I assume I will keep it.

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I’m in the IT business and know network block diagrams…but honestly I would never think about a Hi-Fi diagram…I’m impressed what people do :wink:

Drawn in draw.io

My Work In Progress diagram… I’m starting to think the digital streamer part is “bit” overcomplicated… :thinking:

Interesting you’re running two separate LPS to Matrix a 5V in yellow circle in a USB and a 7V Farad. Have you tried disconnecting the 5V?

yes i have tried it (originally by mistake) and have found that not providing power on input will still work, however will have detrimental effect on SQ. I think it’s because then power from Farad will be used to power input and output which normally should be separate power lines to not contaminate power of Matrix output…

My system has evolved a bit with a new dac and new (old) tubes.

I’ve got Spotty running in LMS for Spotify processed through HQPe convolution filters. It’s nice to have options.

In considering parting with my Pink Faun 2.16…

Looking good. I still take want to try that DAC. Almost ordered near the end of last year, but I changed gears hard to saving for house/investing. I take it you’re happy with it still?

I’ve only had it for 2 weeks today but yes, so far so good.

I would love to hear those ATC’s sing!

They’re pretty spectacular