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| More expensive DAC the answer? What is your source? The jitter of the source is usually more important than the DAC.If you are using a Transport, this is likely the problem. Reclocking with a good resampler like the Synchro-Mesh can make all the difference.Here are plots of t... | |
| More expensive DAC the answer? What is your source? The jitter of the source is usually more important than the DAC.If you are using a transport, then this is probably the weak point. Reclocking with a good resampler like the Synchro-Mesh can make a huge difference, assuming ... | |
| Files from a Harddrive to a DAC vs dedicated digital player? USB:If you are planning to use USB, you will have some hoops to jump through. The easiest course to excellent SQ is to get an Antipodes or Aurender N10 server and add the following reclocker in-line with the USB cable (you need 2 cables):https://s... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right After listening to the " Ventura Highway" track again, I decided that the bass flabiness may be due to USB, but the lack of depth and splashiness of the close cymbols is probably compression The cymbols in the back are actually okay. The vocalis... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right I played both pieces on my digital playback system:"Ventura Highway"(Mac Mini streaming Amazon music 256K MP3 -> WireWorld Platinum USB cable -> Off-Ramp 6 XMOS USB converter -> Empirical Audio Reference S/PDIF BNC cable -> Overdrive S... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right My main question: Is the ambience in the TT an analog artifact or aka. bleed thru of the channels? Or is the TT actually playing it correctly? I would have to hear it myself. I suspect that the ambience is either real and your DAC cannot reproduce... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right I have yet to find a track that digital does not "get right". It all depends on the software, equipment and cables used. I am talking about a track that sounds better on a good vinyl system or reel-to-reel compared to good digital. Not heard one y... | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right The best way to avoid the two-clock jitter problem is to go pleisiochronous. Problem solved.I don't have any jitter problem because it's solved.What is pleisiochronous and how does is solve jitter better? | |
| Oppo 205 revelations, questions.. If you add a DAC and use OPPO for transport, you should be aware of the jitter on the coax outputs. See these plots:https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154408.0 https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=157348.0 Adding a reclocker like t... | |
| Good transport for under 1K? I read up in this Synchro-Mesh component you make. Very interesting stuff I never knew about how these things work. Is this product made by many other brands, or are you pretty much the only one sells them?Many other companies have reclockers. ... | |
| Have DAC’s improved for Redbook CD playback? "Yes, that may have improved with Delta Sigma, but they sound bland, and musically disconnected."Have you ever heard an Overdrive DAC?I think you have not heard the best DAC's yet. This is not so much about the D/A chip, but the entire design and... | |
| Good transport for under 1K? Yes.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Good transport for under 1K? @maritime51 - Simple. Just use a 1.5m coax cable from your Rotel Transport digital coax output to the Synchro-Mesh input and a second high-quality 1.5m coax cable from the Synchro-Mesh output to any DAC coax input. The output of the DAC is left ... | |
| Have DAC’s improved for Redbook CD playback? The distortion and S/N of modern D/A chips is much improved over that of 10 years ago. Addition of reclockers on the S/PDIF inputs has made inexpensive DAC's better, but I don't like it on high-end DAC's.Some of the biggest improvements have been... | |
| JRiver Playback software I have used Jriver, Amarra (old version), Twonky, Audirvana, Foobar2K, Roon, Linn Kinsky and Linn Kazoo. For local playback using USB, I found Amarra to be best, but only the older version I use. For Networked audio, I found the combination of L... |