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| Amarra or amarra symphony??? Srosenburg - yes its called 4318/19.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| DAC St-t-t-t-tutter? Sounds like a latency issue with the USB interface. Adding more memory to the computer can help sometimes, but it may just be the driver and interface on the DAC.I recommend doing these tweaks to any MAC:Get iTunes iBooks:The Optimization Guide fo... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? "You might not like sound of the Benchmark DAC1 or any upsampling/oversampling DACs but cannot deny its jitter suppressing ability."It is an okay DAC at this price-point. I modded the DAC1 for almost 10 years, but I dont mod anymore. I have a lot ... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion Dob - It helps to understand why upsampling makes things sound smoother and silkier. Its not due to the upsampling itself, it because a different digital filtering is being auto-selected in your DAC. This higher frequency roll-off filter has less ... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Kijanki - have you ever actually listened to an AE through a DAC??I have made measurements and critically listened to many digital sources, including AE, Transit, Tascam devices, Apple TV, Squeezebox 2, 3, Duet and Touch, Sonos, Lynx cards, RME ca... | |
| Airpot Express - Upgrade amp or DAC? Your problem is the AE, and no DAC will fix this. I know because I have modded the AE in the past for customers and developed several types of reclockers to make it sound good, including the Pace-Car and the Synchro-Mesh.The Synchro-Mesh is the be... | |
| Amarra or amarra symphony??? All of these players have versions that sound different. The best thing is to get advice from someone who has tried them all. I selected Amarra and I use an older version which can be loaded here:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=105236.0... | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? "connected to the SBT via a wireless network. Is this a USB interface ?"No, this is a network interface."The SBT is connected to the DAC with a digital cable, nothing special, just one leg of a composite video cable with RCA connectors. Would this... | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? "Now maybe there are differences with USB? I have found USB to be vastly inferior to SPDIF or XLR or even Toslinnk for that matter."You have not tried the right USB interface yet. It crushes all other interfaces if designed right.This is like list... | |
| analog sounding DAC? MikeD - This is the best value for your money IME:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=112012.msg1175451#msg1175451It beats most of the DACs you mention, including dCS Debussey.Eliminating your active preamp should be a secondary goal BTW.St... | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? "Any logic to why a particular interface would make a WAV sound better?"Yes. Networked interfaces dont typically use much if any of the audio stack in the computer OS. USB and Firewire interfaces do.This difference probably accounts for the differ... | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? "there was no reason to go with WAV and in fact there were reasons not to. Curious why you would do this?"Sound Quality. If your system cannot resolve the difference between FLAC or ALAC and .wav, this is not so unusual. There are very few highly ... | |
| analog sounding DAC? You should address the transport jitter before changing DACs. If you are not getting great resolution from the system then its usually the source, not the DAC at fault.If you must use a transport, try the OPPO BDP-93 with the Audiopraise Vanity93 ... | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? have you done direct listening comparisons between the two formats and found WAV to be fundamentally better?With USB and Firewire interfaces, Yes.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What Does A USB to SPDIF Converter Allow? If you already have a USB DAC that also has a S/PDIF input, you can usually improve the performance by using a good outboard USB to S/PDIF converter. Most USB DACs have poor implementations of USB interfaces. A good 1.5m long S/PDIF cable is requi... |