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| What DACs are "reclocking"? "All DACs playing regular Red Book CDs at 96 or 192 KHz (playback clock not an integer multiple of the incoming clock) employ some sort of reclocking."Not true. Lots of DACs dont upsample and don have any kind of oscillator inside. It's not a requ... | |
| What DACs are "reclocking"? Any Dac that asynchronously upsamples is reclocking using an internal oscillator. You can also reclock the datastream using an external reclocker and feed any DAC with this.I personally dont like the sound of any commercially available hardware up... | |
| USB cable..what do you have. Here is a white-paper on sources of jitter:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue43/jitter.htmNot all asyc USB interfaces are immune to jitter BTW.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Pre/Pro in Computer Setup I have personally heard several new SS processors from major brands in friends houses. I still like the sound of my Proceed AVP best, although I only use it for movies. I think most of these SS processors make poor audio DACs compared to what is o... | |
| Why not a run high quality USB cable These repeaters usually interfere with the "back-channel" communications, both adaptive and asyc. They also add a LOT of jitter. Even if you get one to work you will probably need a reclocker to fix the jitter. I have at least one sitting in the r... | |
| Why not a run high quality USB cable Most active USB extensions dont work for audio streaming. I would recommend trying Opticis.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Best Dac for a Shanling and squeezebox? If you are using the Squeezebox and an expensive DAC, this might not be a good marriage unless you put a reclocker in-between. Most DACs dont deal with jitter very well and you probably will not get better than CD performance from it without a rec... | |
| Valab Dac Moacbook and itunes Open preferences and then audio and select it. Then open Utilities - Audio MIDI and select the correct sample-rate. Then try again.BTW, iTunes playback on Mac is improved with Amarra or Pure Music.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Getting Into PC Audio and Need Help It's a shame that you already ripped your CD's using Windows tools. The better choice would have been dbpoweramp with Accurate Rip enabled. Try the free download and compare the same track. I re-ripped all of my CD's, even when I used EAC to start... | |
| usb dac for hi-end system When asynchronous mode is used, Firewire and USB are identical in performance (in theory), assuming that the USB interface is well implemented. This means good design, layout and parts choices.However, the implementation is where the differences h... | |
| Transport rips to hard drive? Transports are used to achieve real-time low-jitter. This is not required for a good rip, only a clean error-free data read. Transports with the lowest jitter may not be the best ripping drives due to error correction and offset.However, the CDROM... | |
| USB Length, jitter and Volume Control Questions Bbopman: Two issues with AirPort Express and ATV:1) ALAC is the only format transmitted2) iTunes is the playerThe sonic issues with ALAC cannot be avoided unless you use Transporter, Sonos, Squeezebox or Duet etc..The sonic issues with iTunes can ... | |
| USB Length, jitter and Volume Control Questions The problem with AirPort Express and AppleTV is that they both muck-up the data doing the conversions to ALAC and back as well as the mucking that Core Audio does. I understand that much of this can be circumvented now using Amarra and a tool call... | |
| USB Length, jitter and Volume Control Questions If you want the best results for jitter, I would go with a 1.5m cable for USB. Same with S/PDIF cable for the following reasons:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Here is one phenomena that I've experienced:Preamp in or out of the system - most preamps, except the very best in the world tend to "homogenize" the sound IME, even the ones that I have modded. This causes the turntable, CD player and computer to... |