Maximises stiffness
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Bonded
Telescopic tube
Nothing wrong with those attributes and a decent quality elliptical can sound fine. SamCo magnet too 
Made the move from Roon evangelist to Roon zealot today;
I’m well aware that I could have built a NUC but, honestly, I couldn’t be fucked. I’m well aware of my limitations at making things that aren’t edible and it’s tax deductible anyway.
It’s in and running. As I still have to test non Roon compatible stuff, I haven’t installed an internal drive so it can access the Melco (and, non Roon stuff can access the Melco directly). It does mean that my ‘front end’ before decoding is now three boxes worth of faff (Nucleus, Melco, SOtM) which should fit well here.
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is it a Nucleus or a Nucleus +?
Standard Nucleus. I don’t upsample in Roon or use more than two zones so it didn’t seem worth it.
Does it actually sound better than anything into the same DAC via async USB?
Honest answer is don’t know because my old Core (this laptop) didn’t run direct and neither does the Nucleus. I’d be amazed if it did. I have a separate endpoint for convenience not a belief it makes things better.
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Ah, faff for convenience. Wait, what?!?
Every once in a great while, I get something in for test with a USB input that really doesn’t get on with Roon. With the SOtM, I can switch it to boggo UPnP and keep going.
Ultimately, my system makes absolutely no sense outside of review work. Faff highlights include;
21 conditioned mains outlets
4 MM/MC phono inputs
8 Digital inputs
6 line inputs,
Parallel Roon/Non Roon UPnP testing
A drawer of carts
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Challenge is to fill them all.
The phono inputs have been on a few occasions (TT group tests). I haven’t used all line inputs on this amp but I have also used six of those at once for a CD player group test in the past. I have an Exposure/Kudos active system inbound that needs six mains sockets just for amplification so the mains socket count isn’t pointless either.
Pictured; faff
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The arm or the tenuto
The arm , had the Tenutu a while 
I knew that but maybe others mightn’t…arm name please?
Fidelity Research FR 64 FX…
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U noes u wants it.
Who needs windows anyway?
I’ve read that post three times and still don’t understand a word of it.