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Originally Posted by jimtranr
From a "cold" start, the on-its-own Alpha has already bested what I hear with the WW/Uptone combo in terms of "there's more there there". At first blush, I attribute that to the Alpha's "dead quiet" (and I mean " dead quiet") presentation. How much of that is owed to the Alpha's intrinsic design and how much to the absence of the Uptone's wall wart--however good it may be--in the power distribution loop, non-techie me can't say. And if I'm just at the beginning of what Stephen suggests is a 200-hour journey, I can't help but wonder how much more "there" I'll hear with the Alpha alone. So at this point I'm not even tempted to tempt Fate.  |
You haven't heard anything yet....
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