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| DAC in player vs DAC in computer. If you dont want to change the DAC, then the next step is to insure that you have a good ripper and good playback software. Good rippers are dbpoweramp for PC and XLD for Mac. Good playback software is Amarra 2.3.2 (4317-19), Pure Music or Jplay f... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes All it takes is an active preamp and an inferior SD/PDIF cable in the system and all DACs will sound poor and the same.Get rid of the preamp or replace it with a Music First Transformer passive linestage and get a good S/PDIF cable, such as the Ri... | |
| DAC in player vs DAC in computer. Orpheus - There are no "good" master clocks in computers, or sound cards for that matter.This is the point I'm trying to make. The master clock should be outside of the computer, in another chassis with a good power source etc.. This is the ONLY m... | |
| FLAC On A Mac If I am using the same computer and software and the only thing I am changing is the same track, only FLAC versus .wav, how does is the OS at fault?If the FLAC CODEC does not play nice with the OS, this is not the fault of the OS. It's the fault o... | |
| DAC in player vs DAC in computer. "I have a DTI that improved the sound of almost any DAC, but it has no connection for a computer. Is there such a device for the computer, a reclocking device."Yes, an Off-Ramp 5 does this. USB in and lots of digital outputs.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| FLAC On A Mac Ranperry - depends on your system. Everyone thinks they have a truly resolving system. If you are using an active preamp, you probably will not hear the difference. I have heard it and I have enough customers that have reported this that I believe... | |
| What's up with all those clocks ED - Adding a Pace-Car just complicates things. It would not improve the jitter. There is already a free-running master clock in the Off-Ramp 5.The DAC is already a slave to the Off-Ramp 5, so the DAC is on the same clock, whether you use S/PDIF, ... | |
| DAC in player vs DAC in computer. "audioengr, if you started from digital out in a computer, could it compete with the best "stand alone CD players"; if you used the best DAC?"No way. No expensive DAC will fix this. In this case, the master clock is inside the computer. It's this ... | |
| What's up with all those clocks Ed - Features dont equal performance, neither do parts. It's the whole package, including the implementation. What do you think JA uses?Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What's up with all those clocks "Steve, why aren't you building a version of the offramp with external clock input? This would alow synching up your converter with downstream digital processors with clock inputs."This would require a PLL or VCO clock. These have inherently highe... | |
| What's up with all those clocks "To what extent would this impact the end SQ result if most jitter is eliminated downstream, just before the DAC?"Anybodys guess is as good as mine. It may have no impact. If you try different sources and cables with the Trinnov and the sound is d... | |
| Remote DAC connection to Computer -Shoot Me Now Companies that specialize in USB interfaces can help with this if you buy the right gear. USB can outperform your CD player.There are quite a few companies that are trying to jump on the USB bandwagon now that have little experience with this. It ... | |
| DAC in player vs DAC in computer. They do the same thing. However, an external DAC that can be used with a computer can be much higher quality than any CD player. Soundcards or motherboard implementations of DACs are usually poor quality and suffer from the poor power quality in t... | |
| What's up with all those clocks "can anyone explain how quality of clocking at various point in the chain will impact final SQ, and how I can best allocate my "clocking funds"."This depends on the mode that you use for the PWD. If you use resampling mode or NativeX mode, then it... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Loomis wrote:"about four to five percent of the cost of good value high-end electronics is in the actual electronics that do the work"That may be the case for the V-DAC, because that company has marketing and lots of employees to pay salaries. The... |