Setup

  • Headphones
    • Audeze LCD-5 with Danacable Lazuli Reference balanced headphone cables
    • Abyss AB-1266 Phi CC with Danacable Lazuli Reference balanced headphone cables
    • Meze Empyrean headphones with stock cables
  • Speakers
    • Gershman Acoustics Grand Avant Garde Loudspeakers
    • JL Audio F110 V2 Fanthom subwoofer
  • Amplifier
    • Emerald Physics 100.2 SE in dual mono
    • Benchmark HPA-4 headphone amplifier
  • Digital
    • Innuos PhoenixNET
    • Innuos PhoenixUSB
    • Innuos ZENith SE MKII music server
    • Chord Electronics DAVE
    • Chord Electronics Hugo TT2
    • Chord Electronics M Scaler
  • Power Cables (for digital)
    • 3 x Snake River Audio Cottonmouth Signature (now named SS1451 - Signature Series power cable US/IEC 3m...I think)
    • Furutech DPS-4
  • Digital cables
    • Danacable TruStream USB
    • Final Touch Audio Callisto USB
    • Dual Wave High Fidelity STREAM BNC cables
    • SOtM iSO-CAT6 adapters
    • The Linear Solution Reference CAT7a Ethernet cables
  • Interconnects
    • Iconoclast UPOCC XLR and RCA interconnects
  • Speaker cables
    • Audio Art Cable Statement e SC Cryo Speaker Cable
  • Isolation
    • Gingko Audio Cloud22
    • Synergistic Research Tranquility UEF base
    • Symposium Svelte Shelf
  • Network
    • Dell R510 PowerEdge with Unraid for NAS
    • Custom firewall with pfSense
    • QNAP QSW-M408-4C
  • Software
    • I used Roon with Tidal for the entire review.
    • I've used a few music files upscaled to 705.6/768 via PGGB. Review coming soon.