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| best DAC for PC server Juzi68 - once you have the clarity and speed of PC driven playback, you will notice the jitter even more. The clock in the PC, the S/PDIF interface, the S/PDIF cable all add to the jitter. I hear it mostly as a bit of echo or sibilance at the high... | |
| Apple Lossless Wirelessly I did a series of blind A/B tests with my wife and I agree with her findings, ordered from best to worst:___Player___Format__________Hardware1) Foobar___24/96___________USB Off-Ramp (modified Transit)2) iTunes___Apple lossless_____USB Off-Ramp3) i... | |
| Apple Lossless Wirelessly It is a bit technical. You need to be able to match the impedance to 75 ohms, and this does not just mean inserting a 75 ohm resistor. I have developed special equipment for this. I improve the power delivery to all the active parts, improve the P... | |
| Apple Lossless Wirelessly Go the AirPort Express working now. Even with Toslink, the iTunes sound is not shabby at all. Sounds a tad hollow and focus could be a bit better, but very dynamic and extended. I will be comparing it to my modded USB->S/PDIF coax Transit doing... | |
| USB Audio Output Recommendations? Questions... I have a good upsampling DAC, the P-3A. Doing it in software seems to be better than with the Crystal chipset. | |
| USB Audio Output Recommendations? Questions... Are all CDs 16 bit/44.1 kHz sampling rate? YES(If there are CDs in 24/96 format, are they converted to 16/44.1 when ripped using EAC?) I ripped a remastered "Willy & the Poor Boys" last night that purported to be 20 bit. Are they just referrin... | |
| USB Audio Output Recommendations? Questions... I routinely use the M-Audio Transit to playback 24/96. It uses a special driver and with Foobar2000, it will do 24/96. They is by-far the best-sounding digital playback, even a bit better than iTunes.Steve N.ManufacturerEmpirical Audio | |
| Apple Lossless Wirelessly Anyone use an AirPort Express with a PC?If so, how did you get it to work? | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Having some trouble getting my PC laptop to talk to the AirPort Express....Looks like I will have to cut it out of the case to mod it - no fasteners. | |
| DAC's for the money? The only downside of modding the DV-47Ai as a CDP is that the analog outs are AC-coupled. DAC's such as the P-3A, MSB Gold and Electrocompaniet ECD-1 are all DC-coupled, which makes them better candidates to achieve world-class performance with mo... | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac I live in the mountains in central Oregon. 7 miles to the nearest town of 1000. | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Unfortunately I dont have a MAC laptop, and I probably will not buy one. I will look into borrowing one for this. | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Bought an AirPort Express and I will be modding it soon... I will let you all know if it is as good as the Transit on a PC. | |
| DAC's for the money? Mods are all listed on my webpage, but I get new devices to modify almost weekly. In the last week I started modding dAck! and Scott Nixon TubeDAC, and these are not even on my website yet.The process is that the customer usually ships their equip... | |
| Silly Question...does a transport have a "sound" ? Absolutely, no question. I've modded a lot of transports and even stock, they vary significantly. It certainly has to do with the signal edge-rates and the output impedance accuracy, but even when these are "fixed", the sound is still different. I... |