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| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Chrisla - What type of jitter resolution does your equipment have?Are you an engineer or tech?I might be interested in paying you to do some measurements or otherwise horse-trading something for them. email me.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Chris - dont be surprised if the Sonos does not blow you away. It has a great user interface, but the jitter fromt he digital out is atrocious. It needs to be reclocked. The Squeezebox is a lot better stock, but not as much fun as the Sonos to use... | |
| jitter reduction? Jitter studies must be taken with grain of salt. The systems and recordings used for these are all inferior IMO. I have been reducing jitter in my own and other products for many years. Each time I think the incremental jitter reduction will be in... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Tboooe - I also have a Sonos and controller. Great user interface, but the jitter from the stock ZP80 is quite bad, much worse than a typical transport. IMO, if you want something decent stock, the SB3 is it.Steve N. | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? Chrisla - the review you mention is an old one, using a USB driver from M-Audio, ASIO and SRC upsampling. This really taxes any computer. I think there might have been a bit of user error here also. With newer Windows drivers and the USB firmware ... | |
| Music Server vs. PC vs. Transport vs. ? The first thing to determine is what interface you like and want to use, as well as your family. I would run the demo at:http://www.sonos.comThe mass-produced music servers like the Sonos, Squeezebox and certainly the AirPort Express all have high... | |
| How to avoid Kmixer Herman is correct, AirPort Express is the only way to use iTunes with a PC. The problem is that the output is very jittery and it does not take advantage of the USB interface on your Wavelength DAC. MAC is the best solution for you to use USB and ... | |
| When you go from USB to a DAC is it always SPDIF? No. Other options are:1) AES/EBU2) I2S (direct D/A bus)#2 is lower jitter of course.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer | |
| Mac-Mini to Home Stereo Sounds Harsh Toslink certainly adds a lot to the jitter. Another thing may be that your system has a component/cables that are causing a lot of sibilance. I woudl not rule this out. If there is a lot of jitter, this tends to mask things like sibilance. Once yo... | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER Kana813 - I didn't say it was better, just different. The DAC-gives you more options and lower jitter. The DAC-1 USB gives you the better output op-amps. Some may like one better than the other.... I prefer both modded, not stock.Steve N. | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER #3 is a non-starter, not even close IMO.Steve N. | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER Drubin asks:which would be better:(1) USB out of my Mac --> USB input on Benchmark DAC1 USB, or (2) USB out of my Mac --> Empirical Audio device that converts USB to SPDIF --> coax digital input on DAC1?They both use virtually the same US... | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER I agree. Tube DAC's can be really wonderful, and 16-bit data is just fine. 24-bit can be a bit better, but I'm happy to listen to 16-bit all day long.Using the DAC's in these inexpensive converters is like playing your Wilson speakers from a Bose ... | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER Kana813 - the SMPS that drives the SB3 definitely has an effect on its output jitter. This is independent of the PC power supply though. I suppose if you wired the SB3 to your network rather than using WiFi, this might add ground-loops that would ... | |
| PC-Audio vs. High-end CD Player-GAME OVER "1. Will the PC/Mac download + DAC system kill the CD?"There is little doubt in my mind that this not only will be the case, but already is the case, given the right player software and .wav files.2. Does the high-end PC/MAC setup kill the high-en... |