A streamer is a device that gets digital audio streams from an online or local source and passes them on to a DAC. There are many devices that combine the streamer with a built-in DAC and then output just the analog signal for input to an amplifier or pre-amplifier. We will call these streamer-DACs. If they also have a power…
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There are many cables that cost tens of thousands of dollars out there. The manufacturers talk about quantum properties of single-crystal copper and other mystifying ideas. It’s almost all poppycock (that’s a technical term, really!) Cables serve important roles in audio reproduction systems, from passing digital data from streamers to DACs, to carrying higher voltage and current audio signals to…
