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| Benchmark Dac1 - next step recommendations please You can actually have your cake and eat it too. With the I2S interface that Empirical puts on the DAC-1, you can add a USB to I2S converter, or a Sonos, Olive or Squeezebox reclocked through a Pace-Car reclocker. This gives you the most flexibilit... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Tbg - I heard a Behold system at CES and was not impressed. I even brought my own music track for them to rip. Maybe it was the setup because I have heard that it can sound very good. I examined the technology and made some observations:1) the Clo... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Tedmbrady - Reviewers, like many audiophiles that have not reached audio nirvana can be awed when there is a big improvement in their systems. It is all relative. I have learned not to trust reviewers and be very wary of their system quality. I do... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Value proposition? I believe there are much easier and cheaper ways of doing the same thing, and even better. Why duplicate a PC when you can just buy one? Why limit the customer to one DAC when there are so many to choose from? How does the MP su... | |
| Airport Express vs. Squeezebox 3 No contest. The stock SB3 beats the stock AE. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Drubin - I do have a cable builder, but for the mods and product assembly, there is noone capable in this location. I plan to outsource the assembly of my circuit boards soon and transition out of the modding business. This should solve it.Steve N. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Drubin - I've been to the show before. I have to have my own room and system if I do the show, and that means 3 days driving each way pulling a trailer, plus the three show days. I just cannot afford the time. I'm backlogged 15 weeks right now. If... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Bigamp - If there is a bonfide shootout scheduled at RMAF, I will be there with my gear. I will ask Al Stiefel if we can do a shootout, or if anything is/can be planned.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Jax2 - TACT 2150 is a "digital amp", which means it performs the functions of DAC, preamp and amplifier all in one, without ever changing the signal to analog. Some Panasonic receivers (SA-XR50, SA-XR70) do this too and they sound very good. If th... | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Kana813 - heard the TACT gear at CES. Do you drive the 2150 with a computer or a transport?Seems like it should have a clock output to drive a transport as a slave in order to reduce jitter.Steve N. | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Kana813 - what DAC do you use? What is so special about it?Steve N. | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Jc51373 - The Spoiler is actually not from the ground-up, its based on a Lite DAC-60 from China. The first one I modded was so great that I decided to do an all-out mod on it and change all of the hardware, including the front panel and I add a ba... | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Kana813 - My DAC's and USB converters are also only rated for USB 1.1, but they support 24.96. They aren't supposed to, but they do. Some chips, like the TI PCM270X family do not do 24/96. The 1543 should do 24/96.Steve N. | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Jax2 - you pose an excellent example of design experience. Gordon, of Wavelength had a long career in big-company electronics before doing his own audio business, as I did. The Benchmark folks are from the pro-audio arena. This kind of experience ... | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Jc51373 - Do you really believe that these so called "commercial" designs are perfect/flawless and contain no trade-offs? In other words, the designers are really good at doing design? If the designers were that good, I think they would be making ... |