Russellc
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Never used other than CDP for digital, mainly a vinyl user. Have used PC for casual music listening, and used to stream mog through my old Roku box with RCA outputs to my 2 channel rig. Both have the same problem, well not the roku as MOG died, but both as sources always had some hum.
This is in an otherwise dead quiet system of DIY Pass components. Also a tube rig I have experienced the same thing. The hum is buried once music starts, but I dont like it. Using an ultra wide bandwidth Pass F-5 it has tanned the source resistors a couple of times, no harm to other amps...F-5 is really wide...
I decided to tackle the learning curve of PC as source, given various software like J river and others, and the relative inexpensive nature of many DACs out there. Just to get my feet wet, I got an Audioquest DragonFly to play with, and was "reminded" of this hum situation....is this just the way it is? Seems odd I havent had anyone else complain about it, so I figured not.
Any ideas on this hum thing? Sure enough, I had the F-5 in the chain for tryout with some tracks from HDtracks and Spotify, smelled the hot plastic smell, and am changing source resistors, and Power amps!
Thanks in advance.
Russellc
This is in an otherwise dead quiet system of DIY Pass components. Also a tube rig I have experienced the same thing. The hum is buried once music starts, but I dont like it. Using an ultra wide bandwidth Pass F-5 it has tanned the source resistors a couple of times, no harm to other amps...F-5 is really wide...
I decided to tackle the learning curve of PC as source, given various software like J river and others, and the relative inexpensive nature of many DACs out there. Just to get my feet wet, I got an Audioquest DragonFly to play with, and was "reminded" of this hum situation....is this just the way it is? Seems odd I havent had anyone else complain about it, so I figured not.
Any ideas on this hum thing? Sure enough, I had the F-5 in the chain for tryout with some tracks from HDtracks and Spotify, smelled the hot plastic smell, and am changing source resistors, and Power amps!
Thanks in advance.
Russellc