Review: PGGB – Your Personal Music Upscaler

The Setup

• Headphones (Danacable Lazuli Reference headphone cables)
  • Audeze LCD-5
  • Abyss AB-1266 Phi TC
  • Meze Empyrean headphones
• Speakers
  • 30th Anniversary 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 (HMS)
• 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
• Power Supplies
  • Fidelizer Nikola2 Power supply on Chord Electronics TT2 and HMS
• 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
  • The Linear Solution CAT8 Gold Ethernet Cable
• 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 (100TB protected array)
    • 10GbE via SPF+
  • Custom firewall with pfSense
  • QNAP QSW-M408-4C switch
  • Orbi mesh system
• Software
  • Roon
  • Innuos Sense 2.5.1
    • Sounds better than Roon, but Roon was easier to navigate between the different PGGB variants.
• PC for PGGB Processing
  • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
  • 256GB DDR4 RAM
  • 20TB of NVMe drives with 8TB in RAID 0
  • 10GbE