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| DEQX - TACT - QOL - Thoughts on these? I used DEQX at shows in the past and I modded it for customers. They actually adopted many of my mods in the latest unit. What I found is the best way to use it is with the internal DACs. Going external was problematic for me. I used it once with ... | |
| Help Choosing DAC Mabonn - 2X bigger.David12 - do you have acoustic treatments in your room? Are your speakers optimally positioned and toed?You should be getting pinpoint imaging, soundstage well outside your speakers and 20-30 feet behind them. If you dog jumps a... | |
| Using the PerfectWave DAC MK II Emil - the I2S is significantly better on the W4S DAC2 than the USB or S/PDIF inputs. You should be driving it with your transport I2S. Get a good cable, like the HDMI-12 on sale at partsconnexion.com With a USB to I2S converter, it is killer good... | |
| Help Choosing DAC FLAC sucks with most computer interfaces. So does ALAC and even AIFF. .wav is the only pure format. If you are after the best SQ, imaging and soundstage, .wav is it. Even sounds great on an iPod or iPhone. Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Quality of laptop for use with Dac. Lewinski - no particular order. They are all important and make noticable difference. Probably the least effective is powering the computer from another supply IME.Have not heard a CAPs yet.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Help Choosing DAC "Do some DAC units have the preamp built in? I am wondering if computer to DAC to amp is the right way to do this. "Absolutely. Next to jitter, active preamps are the biggest impediment to good SQ. Here are four ways to do this:1) Get a DAC with a... | |
| The best of the DACs Bettering a CD transport is easy. Just make the right choices. Try bettering vinyl:(http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95464#msg960567)Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Quality of laptop for use with Dac. Unfortunately, even with Async USB interfaces, there is still a lot of interaction with the computer. In theory this should not happen, but it does. Some of it is due to CODECs that dont run well real-time, audio stack issues and even power system... | |
| sooloos music server sound quality Most servers have a variety of deficiencies IME, particularly and unfortunately the most advertised ones from large companies:1) relatively high jitter2) non-optimal ripping software3) non-optimal playback software4) format and track limitationsIf... | |
| USB/Fw DAC with volume control Shootouts:Weiss:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=105049.msg1159717#msg1159717dCS:http://dagogo.com/empirical-audio-overdrive-dac-pace-car-reclocker-and-monolith-battery-supply-reviewSACD:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?icomp&... | |
| Wyred4Sound Dac-2 vs Preamp and separate DAC The optimum way to use DAC2 is with PWT from PSAudio and I2S cable. The I2S sounds major better than the other inputs. Drive direct to amps using a transformer linestage such as Music first or these other options:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.p... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion Dob wrote:"He will never guess, that "1" is actually electrical pulse, say 1 v amplitude for illustation and could be a) mispaced in time due to the jitter and b) greatly distorted (say reduced to 0.499v) due to noisy power supply, non linear DC:D... | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? "I am intrigued by the USB topic. Steve, are you saying that USB will beat my current setup I described above? I would love to put it to the test, thoughts?"Very likely. Having the master clock in the DAC is of course the best scenerio, with one c... | |
| Meridian sooloos, Olive 6HD, ?? The HUGE advantage with using a computer rather than a server is:1) you have control over the playback software2) you have control over the ripping software3) you can add a device with a good master clock and not depend on the crappy clock in the ... | |
| Sonicweld Diverter HR, etc... Audiofun - My older Off-Ramp 3 actually crushed a number of early async converters as well, but async opens up totally new doors. You are missing it if you dont try one. Adaptive is ancient technology now.Steve N.Empirical Audio |