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| DAC = thin sound First, rip CD's using XLD to AIFF. Never use ALAC format. Second, install a decent playback software such as Audirvana, Pure Music or Amarra.Finally, you may never get great sound using those interfaces. I've not heard them myself. You may need an... | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade Drubin - one would have to open-up the PWD and measure this with much care. I have not done this. Even if I did and gave you the spectrum of jitter, what could you glean from that????Noone has even correlated this kind of measurement with sound qu... | |
| Airport Express clicking sound Devilboy - lowering the digital volume is never a good idea. Good thing to avoid unless you want to lose all of the good things in the music. about -9dB is the most you ever want to reduce volume digitally.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade Drubin - here is Jiminias post:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1320430393&openflup&74&4#74As for why, its simply differences in jitter magnitude and spectrum. Jitter is the #1 performance limiter in digital audio.Stev... | |
| Airport Express clicking sound Jdoris - skipping is usually caused by the playback software and hardware. The latency is too large for it to keep-up. This can be caused by network congestion if you are using the bridge, or by competing applications on the computer, or slower fr... | |
| Airport Express clicking sound Your DAC may be clipping.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Help Me select Mini Here is what I found. Comparing identically configured 2009 and 2011 (i7) Minis both with SSD and 8GB DRAM, the 2009 mini wins hands down. The biggest improvements are from Veesion 4318/19 Amarra and the SW scripts to reduce active apps.Steve N.Em... | |
| all about pc and audio thoughts ... Albert - I use version 2.3.3 4318/19. It is called 19, but comes up 18. The link is on my audiocircle.com forum if you awant to download it. I have compared it to 2.3.3 4344 and 2.4 4347 and I prefer it. It is not too buggy if you avoid 192 and 17... | |
| all about pc and audio thoughts ... Jplay and Jriver is the best current combo for PC, however the right version of Amarra on Mac still beats it IMO.One must be careful of using not only the best playback software, but the best CD ripping software as well, dbpoweramp/Accurate Rip wi... | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? Doggie - dowload this one and install it. Its the best I have heard. Really live, airy and clear. Better than 4344 or 4347, the latest release. Unfortunatley troublesome for 176 and 192 tracks. Otherwise behaves okay:www.sonicstudio.com/releases/A... | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? Jfz - sonic improvements of CD ripping depend on the hardware and software that you are using for playback. With the right combination, it can beat even the best CD transports. I personally dont do it for convenience, nor do I design products for ... | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? Doggie - Yes I've tried Amarra 2.4. Dont like it, and I've given feedback to Jon Reichbach. He fixed the bugs, but nixed the SQ unfortunately.I am trying 2.3.3 4344 today. I also really like 2.3.2 4319.Differences in MINI SQ can be easily caused b... | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? You should think about ripping CDs, with dbpoweramp on PC or XLD on Mac. You will not find very much of the music you like and are familiar in hi-res downloads. Very limited IME.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| New Computer: What Should I Get for Audio? Get a used late 2009 Mac Mini on ebay and then buy a 120GB SSD from Other World Computing and 8GB of DRAM from them and install it yourself.Then do all of these SW tweaks:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=105944.0Then put this older versi... | |
| Personal Preamp Evolution - May 2012 I use a Music First pure silver transformer based linestage. Beats all passive resistive linestages and all active preamps IME.Steve N. Empirical Audio |