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| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Look, I am a EE with over 30 yeard design experience. We can debate the theory and the science until the cows come home. The fact is there are differences here, and comparing .wav to .wav files does not explain it.One person that did this experime... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Peter is not the only one that has heard this anomaly by a long shot. I have received a number of reports of the same thing. The problem happens even when the data is streamed with WiFi to AirPort Express or AppleTV.If the file is ripped directly ... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Dtc - it turns-out that hardware upsamplers are mostly inferior to software upsamplers. Makes perfect sense. There are limitations to what you can do in hardware and how long it takes to do it. It usually a compromise. Software on the other hand i... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "Hey Steve.Why is Kernel Streaming better than ASIO for KMixer avoidance?"Because at least with XP, every ASIO plug-in that I have tried sounds different. I dont trust them anymore. Unmapping has a clarity that ASIO just does not delivery IME.Stev... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "Do you get 16/44.1 out of J River?"Yes, but with my USB converter it's 24/44.1. With some devices attached to my Pace-Car, it's 16/44.1. The Sonos is also 24/44.1, but bit-perfect."If I read your comment correctly Vista converts 16/44.1 to 24/44.... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "If there is no additional software other than the native drivers, I would suspect that the upconversion still happens. Do you concur? Does your converter get 44.1 out of iTunes?"No, not with Vista and my converter. It changes 16/44.1 into 24/44.1... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "XP generally upscales 44.1 files to 48 unless special drives are installed."Not true. My USB converter uses the native drivers and it outputs 44.1 on XP. There are several ways to avoid kmixer, including:1) unmapping the device2) Kernel Streaming... | |
| 10 questions about computer audio My home computer looks nothing like that. I guess I'll need to get a chrome steering wheel for it.....Steve N. | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Just improving the Toslink from the Mac will reduce jitter a little, but it does not change the clock inside the MAc, which is the true source of the jitter.If you go USB to S/PDIF, there are three advantages:1) Eliminate the Toslink optical conve... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio Mapman wrote:"So in the case of jitter, once the clocking of the data is hosed, how practically does re-clocking it make it right again or at least better. What algorithm is used? Is it that the correct clocking is just implicit in the sample rate... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio Arj wrote:"If the industry could standardize on HDMI components to transmit native I2S, we could kill off the crappy optical and SPDIF connections we use now and virtually eliminate the need for expensive re-clockers (sorry about that part, Steve)... | |
| Does good technology guarantees musicality? Implementation is everything in front-end gear, particularly DAC's. A good implementation can use a 10-year old D/A chip, but sound better than a new design with a newer D/A chip with better specs, and this is fairly typical. Case in point is the ... | |
| skipping I guess that's why they call it "pop-pulse".All kidding aside, here are some things you should try:1) remove all other USB devices, even the mouse2) forget ASIO, instead unmap the device in device manager3) try other USB ports - you may have a slo... | |
| Itunes Error Correction My customers are reporting the iTunes even with correction on is not as good as EAC on a PC. Try it and decide for yourself.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| what is a lazy old audiophile to do? Forget about AirPort Express unless you you willing to buy a reclocker for it. Very high jitter. Compared to even a mediocre CD player it is poor.The only things I have found with decent jitter in stock form are:Apple TVSqueezebox or DuetFor ease-... |