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| Pc to DAC Configuration It is possible to build your own USB cable and get 10m length to work. I have not tried it myself, but customers have. See:http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Extend-yout-USB-using-UTP/step2/The-making-of-Part-1/Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Is Itunes OK to rip CD's to AIFF? If you set error correction on with iTunes how could you get anything other than a perfect rip?The offset is screwed-up.Try this: rip a track to .wav with dbpoweramp with Accurate-Rip enabled. Then rip the same track with itunes and compare the SQ... | |
| Pc to DAC Configuration The USB interface on the BelCanto is Adaptive, not Async, so it is sensitive to jitter. I had a similar interface (CEntrance) in my older products. Need to use a good quality 1-1.5m cable.If you used a newer async USB converter, then you could go ... | |
| Is Itunes OK to rip CD's to AIFF? No blind tests, but I have a lot of feedback from customers that iTunes rips are not as good as a ripper that uses Accurate-Rip, such as XLD. I have heard it myself too. Accurate-Rip uses the FREEDB database of rips that also includes accurate off... | |
| Halide Bridge vs hiFace Evo vs Sonicweld 192 "not all Converters will behave the same with all DACs-no matter what the price or quality. Some get best Sound Quality with Firewire, others with USB, some with Fiber Optic, Wireless, SPDIF, BNC, AES/EBU. They can't be all optimized for best soun... | |
| Empirical Audio Off-Ramp V4 Ultraclock + Monolith The EA website is late getting updated due to photo problems. If you email us, we can get you a quote. The backlog is growing....Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Power conditioning for computer audio "Could you explain why that would be so?I would expect, given that we are talking about a digital output of the computer (as opposed to an output whose current demands may fluctuate widely) that capacitive energy storage and decoupling on the soun... | |
| Power conditioning for computer audio Paul - you must be very careful about where you use ferrites. They can definitely inhibit dynamic current flow to a DAC for instance. If you are using a sound card in a desktop PC, the ferrites may add significantly to the jitter by making the pow... | |
| Best sounding PC for adudio may vary Jayb - the HDMI output on your computer is not I2S and not compatible with the W4S input. This input only works with the PSAudio transport.dbpoweramp has free downloads, but you must download several pieces I think and install and configure them. ... | |
| Best sounding PC for adudio may vary The easiest way to get beyond this sound varibility and generally poor SQ of PC is to go with Mac. Then Use Amarra, Pure Music or Ayrewave for playback. These all have slight sound differences, but they are all excellent.A Mac Mini is an excellent... | |
| Should Equalizers make a comeback? I finally used an EQ that I can live with. It's the EQ that comes with the Amarra pro music software. This is professional and very transparent. I've been deadset against EQ for at least 20 years, and this one not only works, it sounds great. A bi... | |
| Mac sound quality It's not the "hard drive" that is the problem. Its the internal clock jitter and the S/PDIF interface.I recommend using an external USB converter or USB DAC. Most of these will have lower jitter. The new ones support up to 192kHz sample-rate. Play... | |
| Squeezebox Touch: jitter thru wi-fi? Jitter is only an issue with the clock and S/PDIF output of the Touch, not the WiFi transfer. Only dropouts can occur with the WiFi interface. These are not jitter. Dropouts are rare and depend on the usage of your ethernet network.Steve N.Empiric... | |
| confused on audio file formats On a Mac I recommend Amarra 1.2 with iTunes playing AIFF file format. No reason to use lossless compression. Disk is cheap.Also, dont use iTunes to rip CD's. Use XLD with Accurate-Rip enabled:http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.htmlI dont sell any ... | |
| Confused With Options To Obtain BestQuality iTunes Gordon - there is minimal or no audio stack involved with the AppleTV sinc it is networked, so any sound quality issues are probably jitter related in the ATV itself.A reclocker between the ATV and the DAC can reduce this so it should be similar t... |