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| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming After investigating, I can see that Ethernet/Roon may well be the wave of the near future for audiophiles.It isn't for me. I compared Roon to DLNA/UPnP on the same hardware platform and DLNA sounded better. It was the Roon software compared to L... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming IMO, trying to get your chromecast audio/toslink up to a high standard for streaming is like putting lipstick on a pig.I agree, however a Sychro-Mesh reclocker will make practically any digital S/PDIF source into world-class, and probably for less... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Steve, please explain why a coax needs to be at least 1.25-1.50m long. Thx See my white-paper:https://positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I connect Chromecast to the Gumby with an optical cable.i am using a coax to connect CD transport to Gumby.What can I do to improve the streaming quality.How do I minimize the jitter from the Chromecast?I don’t know what a reclocker is or how it c... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Results depend on the CD transport and the cables used. Chromecast Audio will sound better if you insert a reclocker inline with the DAC. Absolutely. MP3 or ALAC streamed files will always lose a little depth and width over the .wav file (CD qua... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? leemaze - the Toslink I recommend uses a high-quality polished plastic fiber. I experimented with many glass fiber cables, but I realized that this plastic cable just sounded better. Usually it's the light distortion in the cable that causes sig... | |
| Syncro-Mesh, Dynaco power supply combo+ digital cable Synchro-Mesh will not degrade the sound quality, only improve it, usually significantly. Just read all of the customer feedbacks on my audiocircle forum. The resampling chip used is excellent. I have compared resampled tracks to native tracks a... | |
| How much better is direct BNC vs adapter Edit DeleteAudioengr, if I understand you correctly, you are stating that BNC to BNC with an RCA to BNC adapter is better than a cable terminated as required? So the 75ohm properties of the signal are corrected by simply adding a second BNC conne... | |
| Aurender N10 and audiophile network devices It's not fruitful to pursue expensive transports when you can beat all of them using a reclocker costing around $1K with an excellent digital cable included. Nothing matters from a transport or any other digital source, except jitter. There is n... | |
| Aurender N10 and audiophile network devices To make your LAN sound good, I recommend the following:1) AQVOX switch connected to the server, not a router2) Wireworld 0.5m Platinum Ethernet cable3) EMO EN-70e isolator4) Wireworld 2.0m Platinum Ethernet cableConnect to your server.This is what... | |
| Aurender N10 and audiophile network devices Here is my white-paper on S/PDIF cable length:https://positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm Coax cables should always be terminated to RF connectors, like a 75 ohm BNC. Trying to terminate coax to a RCA connector is a non-starter. A good cable... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? MW - There are several techniques. Lets address each of them:Synchronous buffering:With synchronous buffering, the same clock is moving the data in and out of the FIFO buffer, so the incoming clock jitter matters.Local PLL clock:If you have a loca... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality The OTL upgrade simply removes the output isolation transformer. If the DAC has a transformer on the input, there is no reason to have two in series. The pulse transformer is really not necessary, but helps with ground-loop noise in some systems w... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality erik - Purifier?? I don't know what product this is. Do you mean the Short-Block?There is no incompatibility with XMOS-based USB interfaces. Sometimes they need +5V from the USB cable depending on the design. The SB cuts this voltage. It does... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality There is no way this was a jitter detector. This was a classic S/PDIF receiver error detector. Even my DAC has this.Most logic families used in DACs are too slow to make these type of determinations. We are talking about gates with propagation ... |