The USB board in the Kassandra equals the Ethernet on smooth treble, slightly better I think, but the soundstage goes huge on USB. ![]() ![]() My Mac Mini (modded with 12V uptone audio board and ext LPS, SSD, Audirvana+3) was outputing via Ethernet to the Rednet 3, then SPDIF and clocked to my DACs. But I have changed DACs to the Aries Cerat Kassandra Ref II and it beats my Rednet3 on sound quality. ![]() Until last week I was really done with USB audio. Mac Mini powered by modified Hynes LPS -> 2m Wireworld silver USB cable -> SOtM tx-USBUltra regenerator -> 1m Wireworld silver USB cable -> Power Block USB LPS -> Off-Ramp 6 USB converter -> Empirical Audio Reference S/PDIF coax cable -> Modded Router powered by Dynamo LPS -> 0.5m Platinum Wireworld CAT8 cable -> EMO EN-70e isolator -> 2.0m Wireworld Platinum CAT8 cable -> SOtM Ethernet Switch with internal clock upgrade powered by Dynamo LPS -> 1.5m SOtM CAT7 cable with filter ->Įmpirical Audio Overdrive SX DAC with Ethernet interface ->Įmpirical Audio Final Drive analog transformer buffer ->Ĭustom modded Arte Forma SET Due Volte monoblocks -> Manufacturer of low-jitter digital interfaces and DAC's since 1996
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