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| Sending music to DAC wireless vs wired Ejliu - S/PDIF coax does not necessarily connect the two grounds. Some DAC's and reclockers have isolation transformers.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| SB Duet Sound Quality Improvement? Scoly1 - the upgraded power supply will make an incremental improvement. Not sure if its worth the effort or money though. There are very few modders that can do the digital output and clock upgrade well. I dont do it myself.Steve N. | |
| SB Duet Sound Quality Improvement? The problem is jitter. The way to solve it is to reclock the digital output, or completely redo the digital output stage, upgrade the power supply and replace the clock.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| J River MJ12 Pops/Clicks-Effects help needed? There are a lot of PC USB deficiencies, both hardware and software that can cause these pops due to high latencies or interrupt conflicts. Usually custom drivers have higher latency. Non-Windows ASIO can cause higher latency. Upsampling or decompr... | |
| Squeezing out extra perfomance: Reclockers Portypop - I'll try a second time:I2S is the bus most commonly used to drive modern D/A chips.I2S is comprised of:Master clock or MCLK - 256fsBit clock or SCLK - 64fsWord Clock or sync - fsSerial DataFs, or sample rate frequency is generally 44.1k... | |
| Stock Benchmark DAC-1 versus EA MSB Gold Link 3 "Modifications to power supply have no sense in my opinion - why would you modify thing that has measured -140dB signal to noise ratio."Because these measurements are steady-state, not transient. The dynamic response of the power subsystem not jus... | |
| How would you improve the sound of Squeezebox? Amaggie05 wrote:"How about Bolder Cable's Digital Mod + E.A. Pace-Car?"Modding the SB3 would be a waste of good money if it's feeding a Pace-Car. The jitter coming into the Pace-Car is not really important. The clock is replaced with a local free-... | |
| Squeezing out extra perfomance: Reclockers The Isochrones are word clock generators. How does this improve jitter at the D/A? Most modern D/A chips need low jitter on the master and bit clocks, not the word clock. | |
| Low capacitance interconnect?? Stevecham - the metallurgy has nothing to do with the capacitance. This is set by the wire-to-wire spacing and the insulators. Anything lower than 3.8pF/foot?Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| EAC dbpoweramp jumpstart Just do "test and copy" - uncompressed and you will get great CD copies.When you install EAC, run the wizard and it will optimize for your CDROM drive.If you want all of the tagging info, then I recommend AIFF format.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Squeezing out extra perfomance: Reclockers You could use the AirPort Express or Apple TV with a reclocker. This way you can still use iTunes and do it wirelessly. There is no audio quality hit with using WiFi if you use a reclocker.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Airport Express wav file vs CD played thru iTunes Edo_musica - the CD is usually played directly from the laptop to a DAC, not through the AE. | |
| Airport Express wav file vs CD played thru iTunes ARM - If you believe that a DAC is the solution to eliminate jitter, then you need more experience with DAC's. I get to hear a LOT of DAC's in my profession. They ALL need jitter reduction IMO.Steve N. | |
| Airport Express wav file vs CD played thru iTunes The difference is jitter. The stock AE has very bad jitter compared to a decent CD player or even a computer playing a CD. A reclocker can bring the performance of the AE beyond that of a good transport or CD player. Most audiophiles that are gett... | |
| How do I optimize J.River with quality sound card Jriver will run with some USB devices if the device is unmapped. This bypasses everything I believe. Other players such as WMP will not even recognize the device. See:http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic=40068.0Steve N.Empirical Audio |