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| Loss of inner detail Kijanki - This is not synergy. Any number of things wrong with the cable or digital interfaces can add jitter. Everything adds jitter.If you have a slow risetime transport, it will add jitter at the receiver regardless of the cable or length of ca... | |
| Loss of inner detail Tgyeti - there is no such thing as "synergy" with digital interfaces and cables. Either they are designed well or they are not. Mixing and matching is fine, and usually beneficial because the designer of a DAC is not necessarily good at doing tran... | |
| Loss of inner detail Its probably jitter from the transport. If the transport had low jitter, it might even be better than the Sony. Also, your digital cable could be contributing.IMO, you can replace the cable with a Ridge Street Audio Poiema in 1.5m length and use a... | |
| Starting computer audio Not so tough. The Sonos jitter is much higher than the SB Touch. Not that it is perfect, but definitely better. I would go with Touch.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Yet another DAC recommendation request Rampage - did you read the recent review of the BC3.5 in TAS?Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer XLD is the best ripper and converter - its free:http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.htmlI would rip to AIFF, not ALAC. This is essentially .wav, but allows for tags and album art on Mac.Music players dont always manage the music. Much of the time, ... | |
| I got the USB DAC per everyone's sugguestion BUT.. "So the question is whether the USB cable will transmit the 24/192 signal to the DAC?"Yes it will, however it will be resampled by your DAC.I highly recommend using JRiver Media Center and Kernel Streaming or WASAPI. Otherwise, you are hearing Cor... | |
| Yet another DAC recommendation request Just upgrade your USB converter. This will make a bigger difference than a new DAC in that price range, and it will be cheaper. The Master Clock is actually more important than the DAC when you get above about $1.5K.Read the last 3 DAC reviews in ... | |
| What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer I meant Lossless - a typo.Use AIFF, not FLAC or ALAC if you care about tags and album art.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer .wav files play fine on the iPod as long as they are 44.1. Just put the .wav files in your library into the iPod playlist on your Mac and when it syncs the iPod, the .wav files are on the iPod. You may have to find them as files and not albums how... | |
| What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer "So, I'm going to guess you use FLAC.Can you recommend a s/w app that allows my mac to play well with FLAC?"You would be wrong. ALL lossy compressed formats compromise sound quality IME. I recently did this comparison at RMAF at my exhibit room. H... | |
| What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer "Steve, in what way are ALAC and Airplay 'flawed'?"1) It is not just using networked data transfer, it uses the audio stack so it is mucking with the data with mixers and volume control etc..2) compresses the data to ALACFirewire is no panacea. US... | |
| What is the function/pupose of music plyr/streamer "Steve- Is it just Airplay you have an issue with or the whole idea of storing and playing using apple lossless?"Airplay is flawed and ALAC is also flawed IMO.It's time you updated that system of yours. Throw all of that stuff away or give it away... | |
| Why CD players will never be dead Ghost - yes, Kernel streaming is a JRiver plug-in option. Hopefully, your V-link supports it.WASAPI is generally used with Win7 and Vista, but you can use KS also.If the hard drive is on your network, then the player software should be able to fin... | |
| software filters These ary widely in quality. Some are no better than the old "graphic equalizer" boxes. Terrible.The best of these IMO, is the EQ that comes with full Amarra player software. This only runs on Mac, but its is totally transparent. I could not have ... |