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| How much better is direct BNC vs adapter Don't do BNC-RCA cable. Use the BNC-BNC cable with a 75 ohm adapter, not 50 ohms. For 99.9% of systems you will not hear any degradation with the adapter. You can get them at Markertek.comSteve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? audioengr, What you say makes sense. Do you have a recommendation for a high quality audiophile BNC to RCA adapter? High-quality, not really, but you can get 75 ohm adapters at Markertek..com. They are a bit short for some component jacks, but the... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? Also, I mixed psec with ns. Going from 22psec to 7psec is not audible. Some studies/trials have been done, and human audibility of jitter is >10ns (~20ns one study found), which is 10,000psec. And again, any good DAC would get rid of jitter to ... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? I know a few psec makes a difference, and the measurements I was talking about showed digital coax around 100psec at 100kHz to 1.4MHz and Toslink at 500-1000psec for the same reason. However, that’s well beyond human audibility so it doesn’t matte... | |
| 99$ Digital cable is damn good Digital coax cables should always be terminated to BNC connectors. RCA cannot be terminated cleanly.Use 75 ohm BNC to RCA adapters if you need RCA.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? I have seen measurements showing jitter in Toslink, but they were showing >100kHz and even in the MHz range, so it has no influence on music. Most jitter measurements are not useful if not even bogus. One number is insufficient unless there are... | |
| Why does my DAC sound so much better after upgrading digital SPDIF cable? If you want a good Toslink cable, get this one:https://btpa.com/TOSLINK-XXX.html | |
| Want to rip my CD collection to a NAS and play through Sonos Connect. Need advice You can get a PC laptop for around $600 with 1Tbyte drive in it from Costco.You can rip of your files to FLAC or wav to this disk, using dbpoweramp.You can run the Connect to a Synchro-Mesh reclocker to reduce the jitter to 7psec. Here are the bef... | |
| Apple vs Amazon ALAC should be better than MP3 imo, higher sampling rates and bit depths.MP3 is the lowest quality.That's what I expected, but I'm getting superb results with my XMOS USB interface. It's important to add one of these:https://sotm-usa.com/collecti... | |
| Help me add music streaming to my Home Theater If you have a smart TV, just connect this excellent, inexpensive Toslink cable:https://btpa.com/TOSLINK-XXX.html in the appropriate length from smart TV to an iFi SPDIF iPurifier:https://www.amazon.com/IFI-iPurifier-Digital-Optical-Optimizer/dp/B... | |
| Ifi Spdif purifier I use it for my smart TV and cable box as well as my Blu-ray player because it passes Dolby Digital signal. Big difference to reduce jitter, just like I do with 2-channel PCM using my Synchro-Mesh.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Apple vs Amazon Apple uses ALAC encoding I believe whereas Amazon Prime uses MP3 256K. I prefer the MP3 also.There is a lot of "free" music on Amazon Prime, but no Led Zeppelin for instance.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Flaws in this chain? Any difference in cables or sources is due to jitter, unless you have a ground-loop noise problem with one device and not another. Unlikely.The point is that if you DO hear any difference, the it is likely that a low jitter source will make things... | |
| Flaws in this chain? So, you didn't hear any difference in different sources or different cables?Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Flaws in this chain? I use a $20 blue jeans belden coax cable and my SQ is good enough for me. Obviously you know more about this than I do. All I know is what I have read. Have you tried a better cable to see if that makes a difference?Have you tried another source, ... |