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| Your top ten CD transport??? Tabl10s - Some transports are capable of I2S output, others are not. It is possible to add I2S to some. I would highly recommend the Northstar transport if you dont have one yet. The Transport is around $2K new and with $300 in mods, it will astou... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Jsadurni - too bad about your experience with the SB. I have found that USB audio is much better quality than Wi-Fi (even though I sell an Off-Ramp Wi-Fi), but dont expect miracles if you buy a cheap converter. USB audio can outperform most transp... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Alex - I dont know what you mean by "Noiseball", but I do know that once you remove the digital and analog conversions from a typical computer chassis, whether it is using USB or Wi-Fi, this provides the opportunity to generate an extremely low ji... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Drubin - with a computer external converter, the power supply can be just as quiet, whether it is USB or Wi-Fi.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Advice on Setting Up A Laptop-Based Audio System? Gonglee3 - ASIO4ALL is only for S/W drivers that do not accept an ASIO plug-in. Drivers that can accept the plug-in should use ASIO plug-in, not ASIO4ALL. I have heard that ASIO4ALL is actually an ASIO emulator using Kernel streaming. | |
| any one have direct exp with hi-end hard drive? These are generally called "music servers". The hard drive is only a place to store the data. It does not "play" from the hard drive like a CD plays from a Transport.The memory player and the Zero-one are the only ones that I would consider high-e... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Seandtaylor99 - EAC does a great job of ripping. Foobar2000 and SRC do a great job of upsampling. I much prefer this to spinning CD's because of the lower jitter and superior sound quality.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer | |
| Your top ten CD transport??? "Steve, when one is using the Northstar transport, it is necessary to use a DAC with I2S input to get the best results.?"It will outperform all S/PDIF transports using I2S after it is modded. That is probably enough motivation to use I2S."What do ... | |
| Your top ten CD transport??? Gammajo - The Northstar Transport and DAC both get I2S mods to improve the speed and edge-rates and eliminate reflections. This alone makes a big difference in the I2S. Then I do a lot of analog, power mods and PC board improvements to the 192 DAC... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Pardales - A CD-Rom based CD player is actually just a computer-based system. Maybe we are arguing semantics. I believe what Alex is arguing is something entirely different though. I just cannot figure out what it is....Steve N. | |
| Your top ten CD transport??? "how it come when comparing few transports with the same cable (digital) there is sonic difference also i was told that a BNC digital cable induce less Jitter this mean better for digital application???"Simple. The BNC connector is only a small pa... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? "Hopefully in the future the time will come when proper technology will be developed so one is able to load favorite music onto a computer based audio solutions and play it back while achieving the same audio quality as with the classic dedicated ... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? "A computer is quite evidently capable of preserving the 1s and 0s, since it's able to install an operating system from a CD-ROM. The computer might have jitter and noise on the output, but it's not rocket science to buffer and reclock data, to co... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? The term "hard-drive" based source is a bit misleading. The hard drive is only a place to store the data. It might be stored in RAM in the future or 3-D magnetic memory. The term should be "computer-based" source.You can read this paper comparing ... | |
| Your top ten CD transport??? Sonic signature is due to:1) jitter differences2) impedance matching3) signal edge-rate differencesMy current favorite is the Northstar Transport using the I2S interface with some simple I2S mods (from Italy). The I2S leaves all of the S/PDIF tran... |