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| How to PC Audio with USB DAC? First, I would not recommend using XP and iTunes. Bad combination, poor audio quality. iTunes is fine with Vista or Mac, but not XP.Second, at the bottom of the iTunes window you can select speakers. This is where you do it. If the USB device does... | |
| External hard drive to Surround sound processor You have two choices:1) a USB to S/PDIF converter that supports AC32) a PCI card with S/PDIF output that supports AC3Both are available. | |
| Apple TV vs. Mini vs, Sonos Cubbie5150 - to answer your question, the AirPort Express and the Apple TV are handled the same. The Pace-Car is "tuned" to both. In fact most of the AE's and Apple TV's both work with the same tuning, but there is an exception once in a while tha... | |
| Apple TV vs. Mini vs, Sonos Rbstehno - drbe is quite correct that the clocks used in these older devices are just not up to the standards of more modern clocks. The jitter is much lower in both recent monolothic SMT oscillators and in modules like the Superclock4. There was ... | |
| Jump in now or wait? Dokosan - change the fuses to 3 amp fast-blo while you're at it, (at your own risk).Steve N. | |
| Is it possible to divide digital output ? Technically, you will need active buffering to do this. S/PDIF is specified as a point-to-point transmission-line, so it is designed to go to exactly one destination, not two. It is both source and parallel terminated, so this complicates things a... | |
| Jump in now or wait? Herman - what you need to understand is that the transport protocol that is used for streaming audio over USB is different than that used for printers and disk drives over USB. There is no retry and no error correction for streaming audio. Because... | |
| Jump in now or wait? Dokosan - no problem with USB. Even though it does not have error correction, if you stay shorter than the max USB cable length of 5 meters, you should be fine. However, you should be aware that not all computers USB ports behave well with streami... | |
| Jump in now or wait? Herman - no, the reads from the hard drive should be error-free. Its the spooling from memory out to the device that has no error correction.Steve N. | |
| Jump in now or wait? There is no error correction in iTunes playback. It just reads the data and spools it out, either PCI, USB or WiFi depending on your device. There may be multiple reads when ripping, but no error correction on playback.WiFi because it is networked... | |
| Digital Out Dell 1525 To DAC Section Cary 303-200 I would avoid Dell computers. I have had nothing but problems with them trying to stream audio data from USB. | |
| I just don't get PC Audio Nilthepill - you have it exactly backwards. Spinning optical disks have both timing and data information being read from them. This affects both the data integrity (error rate) and the timing (jitter) during playback.The hard-disk only copies the ... | |
| a really good sound card for windows vista for dig Send DEQX a mail and ask them. They know what's best. | |
| I just don't get PC Audio Clio09 - to make it apples to apples, I would use the Lessloss DAC with both your source and his source. Otherwise, you are just comparing DAC's, which tells you nothing. | |
| I just don't get PC Audio In my mind the advantages of PC audio are:1) long custom playlists for your particular mood, great for parties etc.2) the sound quality can exceed that of a transport for about the same price - there are various reasons for this3) tailoring the mu... |