audioengr
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| Are software players really different ? There are diferences, even in different revisions of the same player S/W. I use a specific rev of Amarra, not the latest, because it beats all of the others.I dont really know what is causing the difference in SQ, but I can speculate:1) offset dif... | |
| Why my DAC will not work with the Mus. Fid. V-Link Even though S/PDIF is a specification, there are lots of implementations of both the driver and receiver. I have seen a lot of different ones having modded transports and DACs for about 10 years.Some of these are finicky I have found. You may just... | |
| toning down the ps audio perfect wave dac "the only time i've felt it was treble heavy/bright was when using 100% silver core ic's. not sure why?? as others use silver core ic's with the pwd and have different feeling/results."Simple explanation: The silver is broken in these IC's.Everyon... | |
| toning down the ps audio perfect wave dac This kind of tuning is risky. If you wanted a softer presentation, the V-Cap teflons, not CUTF will do this. Some Cardas cabling will also do it, but they cause HF rolloff IME.These things tend to be filtering, which is not a good path to start do... | |
| Macbook vs Squeezebox 3 "Are you saying that I will not be able to get sound that equals or betters my Squeezebox, from my Mac, without a USB converter and an expensive digital cable? It seems like the converter is the more important piece at this point?"Yes, that is wha... | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question The clock I use was chosen for its jitter spectrum and pricing. I also offer better clocks in my other products, but not at this pricepoint.All of my clocks are custom builds, not off-the-shelf. The clock in most high-volume low cost products is u... | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question Mapman - SM has money-back guarantee.I could give you a jitter number, but it would be meaningless. I have had clock oscillators with higher jitter specs that sounded better than those with lower jitter specs. Its because the specs are broken. The... | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question Mapman wrote: "I have no complaints and think I would be hard pressed to do much better"Actually, you can do a LOT better even with that Touch and its not very expensive:http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/empirical4/1.html"I would like to try SB t... | |
| Are you still playing CDs after, comp based syst? Akg - The compressed formats are not as good as .wav for sure, however AIFF comes pretty close to .wav on a Mac, and retains all of the tags and album art.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Macbook vs Squeezebox 3 Ecruz - the Mac Mini by itself will probably never beat the SB because the jitter is too high.If you were to use either a reclocker from the toslink output of the Mini or a USB converter from the USB output of the Mini, this would beat the Mini by... | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question Mapman - have you tried the DAC direct to amps?What is your source? Maybe too much jitter to hear these things....Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Are you still playing CDs after, comp based syst? "It seems that some kind of reconstructing of the data has to be done AFTER going through a DAC. If this is so, then all bets are off and folk here are merely settling for something incrementally better."There are a lot of designers that have trie... | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question Mapman - what preamp are you using?Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question XLD is just a ripping application, like iTunes. Rip to AIFF or ALAC format with XLD.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question "Right, it should be possible to do a comparison of files. I'd be interested to see the results if someone has done it. Maybe I will do it myself if I can figure out how."I am talking about listening comparisons. That's what matters isn't it?If yo... |