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| Sonicweld Diverter HR, etc... Audiofun - the Async thing like any other marketing is carried too far, I agree. However, given that I have done 5 generations of USB interfaces (some Adaptive and some Async), more than any other manufacturer, I can guarantee you that you can NEV... | |
| Meridian sooloos, Olive 6HD, ?? Mac mini late 2009 will deliver better SQ with Amarra or PM and may be cheaper too IME. It can be further improved with some published tweaks and replacing hard disk with SSD. About $1200 total outlay.Ripper should be either dbpoweramp on PC or XL... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Kij - I do. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=106328.0I dont know whats inside of newer Big Ben or other reclockers like Monarchy. I used to mod the Big Ben and the Monarchy DIP years ago.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion SGR - I have found that the differences in FLAC ALAC and AIFF compared to .wav are I believe limited to software using the audio stacks, like USB and Firewire. Networked audio may not have these problems. The sound quality differences are primaril... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Kij - if you are waiting for another beter reclocker chip, you will wait a long time, maybe forever. I seriously doubt if TI has another on the drawing board and nobody else seems to be playing anymore...Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Sonicweld Diverter HR, etc... Andrew - I got a reliable report that the DH Labs cable is stellar. They make good cables. I can recommend this one.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Sonicweld Diverter HR, etc... Andrew - I have audioned a few and compared them against my reference, which I do not make anymore. The only one that I have found that is as good is the Ridge Street Audio Poiema. Problem is that the guy has fallen off the face of the earth. Does... | |
| Component Impact "I would love to eliminate my preamp. What DAC with volume control do you recommend?"There are only a few choices that enable actually eliminating the effects of the preamp:1) Overdrive SE2) older Bidat with external volume option3) Weiss 202 beca... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? "Steve, Isn't Metrum Octave a NOS DAC? I would need reclocker for best results with AE."Yes, but you need a reclocker with upsampling DACs as well for best results with AE. They all benefit significantly from low-jitter sources."Many people go for... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion "Steve, Any ideas about transcoding on the fly from FLAC to WAV?Can this sound as natural as AIFF or WAV?Has transcoding evolved to close the distance?"It's the real-time uncompression of FLAC that causes bad audio quality. This would not change t... | |
| NAS + Ethernet DAC = lossless transport ? Better is the question. You will have bit-perfect data from the network device, but as Kijanki says, the jitter from the CD transport may actually be lower, resulting in superior sound. Depends entirely on the master clock implementation in the de... | |
| Component Impact Try eliminating the preamp. That's even better, a lot better.There are two ways you can do this:1) use a good quality DAC volume and drive amps directly2) use a transformer passive linestage (TVC) instead of an active preampThe impact I have disco... | |
| DAC St-t-t-t-tutter? Rob - dont know about reading the ibooks. I have an ipad but never tried it yet even on that. I got the instructions whan they were still downloadable on the web.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? "Steve, I'm aware of changes you made to DAC1. These changes, as I remember eliminated jitter reduction ability of DAC1."Only on the I2S interface, not on the S/PDIF input. I am a firm believer in not doing resampling in the DAC, so this interface... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion Dob - higher sample-rate files can be better for high-frequency transients, but upsampling 44.1 has its own added distortions I have found. If a DAC has a high-order digital filter, then leaving a 44.1 file at 44.1 is usually the best course. This... |