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| PONO: Neil Young's New Delivery System? It will be great if anyone can download these hi-res files and play them without some special hardware. As soon as you lock into special hardware, thats where the deficiency will be. Say goodbye to good SQ.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Kz - Good luck finding a DAC with reclocking that actually works. I have modded 15 different DACs in the past. None of them were very good at reducing jitter. Remember, this is the most important part, more important than the DAC itself.Steve N.Em... | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Kz - Adding a reclocker will make a huge difference, assuming its a good one. It may even beat your Oppo. More important than the DAC itself. The high-voltage discrete output on the Electro DAC is quite good. I used to mod this one. Unfortunately,... | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Even if the DAC you find does not have HT bypass, this can be added and will be superior anyway:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=108715.0Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| pre-amp vs dac straight to amps "for me, it's through the preamp that has lots of bass punch and impact!"This is because your DAC has a high-impedance output stage. Going direct is superior only if the DAC has strong drive on the output stage. OP-amp outputs usually dont cut-it.... | |
| MacBook Pro output to DAC A low-jitter USB converter will easily beat the Toslink output from the Mac. The best way to go is I2S, but your DAC must have this input. Next to that, S/PDIF coax will be great. Whatever cable you end-up with, it should be a high quality cable. ... | |
| Empirical audio off ramp turbo I2S noise You may have a ground-loop problem when you use the passive linestage. Make sure that the AC power for the P-3A, the Off-Ramp and the amp is all from the same AC circuit.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| FLAC or AIFF? your choice for importing to Itunes. Dtc - some of their findings, not all, are consistent with what I have heard myself. I recommend to avoid FLAC if you are using USB or Firewire.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Empirical audio off ramp turbo I2S noise The stock P-3A is not properly terminated on the I2S input. This may be the reason. For most customers, I modded the P-3A to fix this, as well as a lot of other improvements. Did I mod your P-3A?What kind of I2S cable are you using?Steve N.Empiric... | |
| FLAC or AIFF? your choice for importing to Itunes. If you are planning to use USB, then FLAC has the worst imact on SQ of the losless formats. AIFF is not as good as .wav, but a lot better than FLAC.I will not argue about this. Yes, FLAC is bit-perfect when data compares are done, but it compromis... | |
| Simple Wireless Computer Audio Setup There are wireless USB adapters and hubs available from Belkin and others. Some of these will work with asynch USB and others will not. I know that the WiRanger works because I have used it, but not made anymore. You can try ebay. These will degra... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? What's a USB converter? Small box that converts USB to S/PDIF, AES/EBU, I2S etc.. Have you heard of Off-Ramp, HiFace, Audiophilleo?Do you mean computer USB out to DAC to pre-amp? I dont like active preamps. They ruin most audio systems.I prefer co... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? Ivan - I have tried several minis, including the Mach2music when they were around. The best I have found is the late 2009 with AC adapter:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/recommended-systemshttp://eshop.macsales.com/Descriptions/specs/... | |
| Logitech Touch vs Apple TV "Can you explain what is involved in reclocking apple tv?"Sure. Just add a second coax or toslink cable and connect it from the ATV to a reclocker, such as the Synchro-Mesh. Then your good coax or toslink cable goes from the reclocker to your DAC.... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? "It has to do with some sand paper and a black magic marker that you use on your cd's!I tried it and it works pretty awesome!!."You would get better results if you rewrote the CD on CDROM from a .wav file ripped using dbpoweramp on a PC. Use Mitsu... |