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| What is the best transport? Neil - you would probably say the same thing about using an iPod, using iTunes or installing a driver for a new printer etc.. Maybe these are not for you.All it takes is to follow some simple instructions and make the right choices. Less difficult... | |
| What is the best transport? "Please elaborate. In my experience I have not yet heard a digital system that can best high-end analog. Would love to hear what you recommend."Well, now we are crossing the line into advertising so the moderators may nix this, but I'll first star... | |
| What is the best transport? "Has the computer based system fully arrived?"I feel that it has. Others may have lesser experiences with their gear and software. There a currently two high-performance roads: Networked using proprietary devices such as SB Touch or Sonos, or asyn... | |
| What is the best transport? Ridiculous to put so much money into a CD transport IMO, even one based on a computer. It's a dying breed like the CD itself. For about 1/8 of that you can have the same performance or better using computer audio, and its more convenient. You can ... | |
| Sonos surprise Surprised? Do you think I would be swayed by some marketing?Mr. McGowan has no idea how my Pace-Car or any of my other products work. I'll bet he has never heard them either. Maybe I'll have to send him one to audition.Why did I add HDMI I2S? Beca... | |
| Worlds best DAC Non-oversampling DACs have one thing in common: they dont use digital filtering. This is the difference. The problem is that these older chips dont support higher sample-rates. They may also lack some resolution because the noise floors are higher... | |
| DAC with volume control + Integrated Amp = bad? I would be careful about what you read on D/A chips. This is not a good criteria for selecting a DAC. Some of the older chips actually sound best. I wanted to use the AKM chip myself in a new DAC, but I found it to be too electronic sounding. A re... | |
| DAC with volume control + Integrated Amp = bad? Preamps are the bain of high-end audio. I used to use a highly modified Mark Levinson #38 and I thought it was transparent. Not even close. Now I avoid them like the plague. Worse than digital jitter. They usually add more distortion, compression ... | |
| Sonos surprise "Why, then would one want to put a reclocker in the chain before a component which does the same function?"Simple. It does not do a good enough job of jitter reduction. No DAC does. Dont believe all of the marketing hype."Have you used the reclock... | |
| Sonos surprise I'm listening to a Stock Sonos right now, but I use a reclocker between the Sonos and the outboard DAC. This is what is needed with Sonos. The imaging is balled up in the center and the bass is lackluster until you reclock the digital stream and r... | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade "Are you saying that Steve is using PSA's I2S offering it as an option?"It's not an option. Standard on the OR5."I wonder if my Pace-Car can be modded with the same?"Sorry, but no. HDMI I2S is a completely different electrical interface.Steve N.Em... | |
| Airport Express/Apple TV into DAC vs Mac into DAC The AppleTV has lower jitter than the AE or the Toslink from the Mac, so I would go that route.There are no DACs that eliminate jitter IME. Some can reduce it a little, but usually at the expense of resampling the data and the associated distortio... | |
| Help Needed - Music Only System The best speakers in the world will not clean-up the jitter from the AirPort Express. You are losing a lot of detail, soundstage, dynamics and depth with it, not to mention the distortion caused by the jitter.I have many years of experience with t... | |
| Loss of inner detail "the fact is that poorly impedance matched cable will work better with slow slew rate transport while poorly shielded cable will work better with high slew rate transport."A good 1.5m cable will work better with both low and high slew-rate interfa... | |
| Loss of inner detail Jb0194 - 1.5m is what I use with HDMI. I have some of the last PSAudio silver cables.Steve N.Empirical Audio |