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| Some help setting up a PC based audio system. The older Mac should work fine, although you may not be able to put it into 64-bit mode.I would recommend Pure Music to run with iTunes and upgrade to 4GBytes of memory in it.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Music Server/DAC in Same Box The difficulty with one-box music servers is that the designers sometimes make poor choices for music rippers and playback software. They often exclude the use of individual tracks or certain formats. All of these things can add up to lack of choi... | |
| Mach2Music mini and Amarra : Huge disappointment Does anyone else think that it is suspicious that the originial poster never posted again? He apparently did nothing to improve his situation and then report back? No update on service from Mach2music? | |
| Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved If ubiquitous audio quality is ever enabled by Microsoft, it will happen due to prodding from high-end industry leaders. However, it must be disguised as money-making proposition to them. I have made such a proposal to a Microsoft audio group Prog... | |
| Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved Computer audio is a lot like early computers. The PC solution was buggy, but cheap. Sometimes you had to boot Win 98 several times a day. Then there was the Macintosh. it just worked every time and was easy to use, but you paid dearly for this.Lik... | |
| Out Of Studio Monitoring And Into Hi-Fi Here are my recommendations:1) get rid of the soundcard, it will never be a good performer - use USB or firewire interface2) get rid of the preamp, it will compress and color the sound - use a DAC with a good volume or a transformer passive linest... | |
| where to start The advantage of Mac is that programs like Amarra (certain revs) and Pure Music eliminate the SQ issues with iTunes.PC has some programs that attempt to do the same thing like Jriver and Media Monkey with Kernel Streaming plug-ins or WASAPI, but t... | |
| computer not sending signal to usb/spdif converter You must use the correct OS driver. You must also install it correctly. First run the dmg file, which will unzip and execute creating a container. Then execute the container. It will ask for your computer password. When its done, then plug the USB... | |
| Hi Res ripping software for Mac ? XLD:http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.htmlSteve NEmpirical Audio | |
| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? "do you really need off-ramp with overdrive?i think overdrive already has an off-ramp quality(if not better) usb converter built in."You do not need an Off-Ramp with the Overdrive. In the past, in order to get the best possible sound quality, this... | |
| Computer Audio Setup "The alternative Steve is alluding to is to get his forthcoming offramp 5, which allows you go from a a high grade music server into a USB converter, I2S into the perfectwave Dac."Actually, I was referring to a new resampler/reclocker for $599.00 ... | |
| Mach2Music mini and Amarra : Huge disappointment "Audioengr: outperforming vinyl?"You bet, here is an exerpt from a review posted on one of the forums:"Specifically, there are three areas where the XXXX is superior to my vinyl playback: vocal presentation, drum sound and bass articulation. The b... | |
| Highest rez audio service Hi-res from Pandora will probably not happen any time soon. With your Sonos however, it is possible to both upsample to 24/96 or higher and reclock to reduce jitter. A good reclocker can do this without requiring any mods to the Sonos. Upsampling ... | |
| Mach2Music mini and Amarra : Huge disappointment "It will just report what is stored on the hard drive and many people won't like this non-editorialized sound."This is not the defect with most digital playback, and I mean both CD transports and Computer Audio. The real defect with both is simply... | |
| Computer Audio Setup You can improve on the Sonos a lot with a resampling reclocker.If you want the best SQ possible, then get an async USB converter with HDMI I2S to your PWD. You must locate a Mac Mini at the audio system and run iTunes and Pure Music on it. USB cab... |