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| suggest laptop for music storage Kana813 - Only very old D/A chips only support 16/44.1. Most everything sold in the last 10 years at least does 24/96.Steve N. | |
| suggest laptop for music storage The oversampling thing is complicated for sure. There are good ones and bad ones. Generalizations cannot be made IMO.However, there are a lot of NOS products out there that attack the harshness problem by rolling-off or compressing the highs in or... | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Jeffreybowman2k - this depends entirely on the USB interface. They are not all equal. Some require jumping through alot of hoops to stop pops and ticks and the ASIO plug-ins that bypass kmixer are not that good. Some dont support 24/96.If you are ... | |
| suggest laptop for music storage Originally, there were compelling reasons to go with MAC, but with Vista and the new music servers and USB converters with "driverless" firmware, there is no difference. In fact, there is an advantage to PC because of better upsamplers. If you use... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate Dpac996 - I would not radically alter these devices, I would just remove them. This is what I do in the Benchmark DAC-1. I remove the SRC chip completely and make it a non-upsampler, as well as the SRC clock. No clock in the DAC anymore. The clock... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate DPAC966 - The crystal oscillator adds its own jitter. The upsampling chip is also not completely jitter resistant. They both contribute.Steve N. | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate BTW, the Sonos isn't perfect either. I have been running one for days through my Pace-Car directly network-wired with superb results, but this morning I awoke to a screen with stripes through it and the mouse unresponsive. It was still playing mus... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate The answer is that the asynchronous sample-rate conversion does make the DAC somewhat immune to incoming jitter, but not completely. You can test this for yourself by using a really cheap S/PDIF cable to it and then a really good one. If your syst... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate Kana813 wrote:"Right now, I wonder if a SB3(16/44.1)running through your Pacecar sounds any better than a SB3 running through an old Genesis Digital Lens(available here on audiogon for less than $500.). I'd be happy to test this for you."I'll guar... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate Dmccombs - I agree with you on the Sonos. Great product. I also have a Sonos playing through a Pace-Car reclocker. Same great sound quality as with the Squeezebox. It's the great equalizer. Works with Olive also.Steve N. | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate Kana813 - it seems like a lot of money, but when you consider that I plan to do a shootout with the Memory Player and expect to win, maybe not....it's that good.Steve N. | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate I run my SB3 with a Pace-Car reclocker:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/frPace-Car.htmlWith this device, it is not necessary to improve the output from the SB3, or the power supply. There is very little room inside to mod the SB3 anyway. No way to fi... | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC Audiooracle - I welcome a shootout. I already have a request from Arnis, who heard some of my earlier offerings at CES in January. I respect his opinion, so he may be the first to do this comparison.Steve N. | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC Audiooracle - I'm sure there are some aspects of the memory player that are novel, however you may not know that I also have a long list of accomplishments over 30-years of engineering design and management. I was a design deam lead on the Pentium... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate I too have strangeness with the SB3. I run the thing all night into my Pace-Car reclocker and DAC's so they can break-in. Often, in the morning it appears to be playing at the laptop, but there is no activity at the SB3 and no music. I have to sto... |