audioengr
Responses from audioengr
| Help me build a fine PC sound system Jim wrote:"Why do you force a person to choose which word and sampling rates are to be addressed with your components?Why not allow for all the content from Red Book to DVD Audio to be processed by your converters clock?"I dont understand this que... | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system Jim wrote:"Decent converters? So IYO, where do decent conversion interfaces begin in price? $1K, $2K?"Probably $800.00 starting point for a USB converter. It's a lot like turntables. You can always buy a cheap one and a less expensive cartridge an... | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system This guy knows USB can be better than vinyl:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95464.msg960567#msg960567You should at least upgrade that SB to a Touch. Much lower jitter. Then you can probably sell the Esoteric. However, you need to make m... | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system "I don't know how you can possibly defend USB with an argument about how a TAS reviewer uses it as a reference."It it more compelling than me trying to tell you that it sounds better than vinyl or better than the highest end Transports, which it d... | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system If USB is so bad, then why would TAS reviewer use it as his digital reference? How could it possibly get best sound of show at RMAF 2010? Golden Ear award?IMO you have just been listening to the wrong USB interfaces.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system Cerrot - Your opinion I believe is based on a lot of misinformation that you have read on the forums. Ethernet for instance is a really good transfer medium for audio precisely because it's packetized. It also has retry, which USB and Firewire do ... | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system Cerrot - Interesting that you believe the first Berkeley USB interface design overcomes USB's "inferiority", given that you have not even heard one yet. Berkeley approached me to do their USB interface so I quoted them on it. I have designed 3 gen... | |
| High Speed USB DAC? If the change is from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0, then it probably means that the USB interface changed from adaptive to asynchronous. This means that the computer instead of "pushing" data to the device, the device is now "pulling" data from the computer... | |
| Help me build a fine PC sound system "I’ve tried a few of the converters. USB to SPDIF or USB to BNC… they’re ok.. but IMHO, if you want to lessen jitter…. Improve performance… and increase resolution and detail in order to gain greater presence and get closer to the recordings attri... | |
| Cheap transport vs computer HD USB converter performance varies all over the map. Choose carefully.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Cheap transport vs computer HD You thought wrong. The Transport, ala the master clock is the MOST important aspect of the digital playback chain, more important than the DAC. This is why a good USB interface/converter makes all the difference in the sound of the DAC.Steve N.Emp... | |
| What software for 24/192 playback on PC? If you use a PC, make sure that you use either Kernel Streaming plug-in or WASAPI to bypass the damaging core audio kernel. Avoid ASIO.If you want the very best results, avoid PC. Use Mac with Amarra, Pure Music or AyreWave etc. Mac Mini is the mo... | |
| computer audio question "A network player like Squeezebox Touch connected via wireless G performs extremely well in all regards"A lot of audiophiles reclock the SB Touch, SB2, Duet and Transporter. Again, it's the clock that is most important. However the Touch is the be... | |
| computer audio question "Okay, but in the Bel Canto series cited by the OP, newer e.one series DACs are definitely better in just about every meaningful respect, except perhaps cost."Read the upcoming review in TAS on this.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| computer audio question "How do you like the Burr Brown PCM 2702E"Have not heard it yet. I know what I dont like: the AKM chips.Steve N.Empirical Audio |