Here’s a new feedback today. He shared his feedback after receiving Fidelizer Pro with amazing results as below.
I did not expect the results to be THIS amazing. Wow! You should be proud. You can’t make something this powerful without having a passion for music! It feels like I spent thousands on upgrades! Everything sounds new! Perfect. Thank you for doing this.
I’m happy to hear that $69.95 USD Fidelizer Pro software is worth thousands for improvements and happy listening. 🙂
Here’s another feedback today from a client who ordered EtherStream last year and then with Nikola Classic recently.
Hi – Another satisfied customer 🙂
For the last year I owned the Fidelizer EtherStream with its included power supply. It’s been a very worthwhile upgrade from the wired connection directly from router to my streamer/dac. After listening to it with the Nikola power supply I can’t believe the overall improvement. If I switch back to the router connection, I’d put it on the same level as having a great turntable with a $20 cartridge mounted. It plays music, but its full potential is greatly hindered by the cartridge. This combo could be considered a ‘digital phono cartridge’ in the playback chain. I didn’t hear what Tidal or Qobuz could truly deliver to my system until I had these in place.
I work in a stereo shop in the United States where we represent some of the best products money can buy. There isn’t anything we sell that’ll make as big of an improvement to your streaming experience for the price of these two products. Not even close.
Try this combo for all they’ll bring to the music. – Kurt Lantz
It’s great to see feedback from client working in audiophile business and see EtherStream and Nikola Classic working great together there. 🙂
Here’s a new feedback today. He shared elaborated feedback between Fidelizer Free and Pro in great details below. You can also set Pro to work as free version by unchecking startup feature too.
Dear Keetakawee,
First, I must confess, I had a free version of Fidelizer for probably over 2 years before I now finally upgraded – Sorry! I first wanted to be sure the hardware / software combo will remain before I upgrade.
I’m using 2-core Celeron, fanless Win 10 PC with SSD and CD/DVD/BluRay, with a switching power supply. Media PC (is also used for movie watching (Netflix, Amazon Video), audio streaming (tidal), Video Conferencing (WebEx, ..)
PC runs Roon Server as player software (iPad Roon remote Remote + Remote desktop) Logitech Harmony + other Software, such as JRiver, ….. Audio Output is via USB with ASIO interface (see attached for digital setup)Comparison Fidelizer pro vs standard (free) version:
I’m running Fidelizer in “purist” mode, with seemingly no detrimental effect on video performance
F-Pro kills about 20 windows processes vs. only 10 for the standard version (?)
Pro cannot be re-started manually while OS is running? Only started automatically at startup. – The standard version could only be started manually (if I didn’t pay attention 2 or more instances would run simultaneously)
Is there a difference between “high performance” and “high transparency mode” on my PC? Since my processor has only 2 cores –> I guess none?
My listening experience:
Without Fidelizer I often hear massive distortions (similar to harmonic distortions but not correlated with audio but rather noisy in character. It masks the details but also covers up bass and high frequencies. Music therefore sounds flat and annoying, emphasizing mostly mid range frequencies). After reboot it becomes maybe bearable, but it would get really bad after running windows for several days. Restarting Fidelizer, restarting would help for a while. But after a while I would have to reboot anyway.
The Pro version of Fidelizer is definitely more effective. The sound is much cleaner and more detailed, but also a richer and smoother sound (less mid range emphasis)With my PC setting, Fidelizer is an absolute must. I’m considering the Nimitra with linear PS in the future, but tend towards a dedicated player (e.g. Aurender) for Audio. The neat thing about the nimitra is the bridge (network) setup. My concerns are that an external linear power supply may not be enough, as there are probably other voltages needed on the board (i.e. using DC/DC switches?) and 2nd (more important) windows will always have unnecessary processes running, even with Fidelizer. Ideally there would be dedicated hardware that completely caches and re-clocks the signal, but I have not heard about such a device that completely isolates the source – they all seem to let some noise through (according to reviews and personal experience), which is somewhat disconcerting.
Thanks for your excellent work. All the best for your business,
Regards,
Beat
I’m happy to hear he likes Fidelizer Pro enough to consider Nimitra server. The reason I created my own server was because I couldn’t find any satisfying server to use in my $100k system until this day so he sure will love hearing it. 🙂
Here’s a new feedback today from a client who ordered EtherStream with Nikola Classic. He ordered EtherStream first and also took Nikola Classic after hearing my recommendation.
Dear Keetakawee,
I just got my EtherStream – Nikola Classic combo and connect them. There is late night now but I almost couldn’t stand up and stop listening to TIDAL music. You are a Genius. They added a huge portion of musical precision, clarity, details and wide stage to my system which I believed before is perfect. To listen a Barclay James Harvest album never was such an enjoyment from a CD than now from TIDAL. But it is just an example among other albums. I made only one improvement I use an Isol-8 power cord to feed Nikola. Many thanks again for the fantastic musical experience!
All the best!
Gabor
I’m happy to hear EtherStream and Nikola Classic combo can help adding huge portion of musical precision, clarity, details and wide stage to his system which he believed before is perfect. 🙂
Here’s a new feedback today. He tested listening with and without Fidelizer Pro software a few times and shared his feedback as below.
I have been using the Fidelizer for a while and i am very impressed. I’ve turned it on and off several times as a sanity check and am amazed with the sonic improvement every time I turn it back on. I have also played with the settings and bypassed the sonic effects as I feel they degrade the sound. thank you for your excellent product and I look forward to supporting you in the future.
I’m glad to hear that Fidelizer Pro can help him appreciating music in finer details enough to turn off sound effects and happy listening. 🙂