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| Taming edge from remastered CDs? "FWIW, I use an Oknyo DX-C390 CD changer as a transp. (certainly nothing special there), out via a Mapleshade Double Helix, digital RCA to a Monarchy DIP Combo, out via another Helix, to a Ric-Schultz-modified, diffrentially balanced Begringer DEQ... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? "power conditioning (whatever that turns out to be) IME turns out to be (provided you do your homework first) generally much cheaper and can completely solve the problem of the digital nasties while also improving the usual parameters involved wit... | |
| Logitech Touch vs Apple TV Without reclocking, the Touch sounds better, although they are evidently discontinuing the line. With reclocking they all sound the same, and better.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Devilboy - I am talking about instructions for the HiFace2. Mach2Music is defunct.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What is the best sounding DAC at $2000-$4000? Devilboy - you MUST set the buffer size larger to get rid of pops and clicks with HiFace2. I'nm surprised that they dont mention this in the instructions.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? Last_lemming - The pits in the commercial disk made from a glass-master are not precisely placed. This is because these are virtually "stamped-out" rather than written using a laser and a drive. When you use a laser disk writer with a low-jitter m... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? Ivan - you are totally wrong in this one. Jitter is what makes 99% of digital systems edgy, harsh and fatigueing. You have just never heard a low jitter system, and if you did, there was probabl an active preamp in the way creating so much distort... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? Nicotico - remastering from the master tape or disk is usually an improvement, but what we are talking about here is re-writing the disk to reduce jitter. Even remastered disks are made from glass-masters that have high-jitter in the pits. Rewriti... | |
| Dbpoweramp .flac Why bother to FLAC encode this? Just rip to .wav. It will only take twice the disk space and sound a lot better. Even lossless files have sonic problems on playback, even though they compare with static data compares. Even changing FLAC back to .w... | |
| Taming edge from remastered CDs? I have never found this to be the case. I believe it is because you either did not use a CD burner and media that achieves the lowest jitter, or you have other sibilant components in your system, such as your CD transport, cables or preamp. Someti... | |
| My Wyred4Sound DAC1 Sounds Better then my Oppo 95 The difference you are hearing is the higher quality of the external DAC versus the one in the Oppo. What you have not yet experienced is how good the DAC2 really is. Feed it a really low jitter digital signal and you will experience this as well.... | |
| pre-amp vs dac straight to amps Greater than 10dB degadation is only with software controlled volume.Often digital volume circuits in DACs are actually digitally controlled analog circuits. There are many off-the-shelf chips that do this.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Just starting out Active preamps all add noise, distortion and compression. The only good thing is they usually have stronger drive than a DAC. Just get the right DAC with strong drive and use a transformer linestage.Once you have a low-jitter source, you will easi... | |
| Just starting out Music servers are easy to use, at least some of them. The problem with these is generally sound quality. It can be improved significantly by adding a digital reclocker.If you want the best possible SQ, this will not deliver it. The best SQ is curr... | |
| pre-amp vs dac straight to amps Aside from jitter, preamp distortion noise and compression is the MOST detrimental thing is most systems IME. Elimination of the pre is a huge win.Depending on how you do this, however, the results can vary widely. I do not recommend using a stand... |