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| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac One thing about the Transit - I use it with Foobar player and ASIO plug-in. These are critical on a PC to get the quality out of it. I also playback exclusively with 24/96 through my DAC. This makes all the difference. Leaves all transports in the... | |
| I want a change, but what? Stereo - 0.5m is a no-no. I cannot even use this length on my modded transports. Only the fastest risetime S/PDIF can use a 0.5m. Not surprised that it sounds worse. | |
| I want a change, but what? Tobias wrote: "Have you tested a good many stock transports to find that they all have the slow rise time "bug", or is there a "good" group? If so, is Stereo's Proceed in it? How about my own TEAC VRDS T1?"Yes, I have modded a few different transp... | |
| DAC's for the money? Yes, mod the Pioneer.The Birdland is one of the best-sounding stock DAC's. dAck! is also very good stock.The MFA3 24 is okay, but not as good stock as the DAC's above.I would recommend using the toslink for movies - get a good glass fiber cable, s... | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac The Edirol is probably the best choice for iMac. An AES/EBU interface can easily be added to the Edirol with mods, as well as improving its jitter performance. Just a short cable hanging from it with a XLR connector attached.BTW - Edumke - Did you... | |
| Apple Airport Express Very Cool Product Yes, Toslink is inferior. That's why I mod all of these converters to have a coax S/PDIF output, with a short cable attached.If the Airport Express output wired USB, then you would still need a USB to S/PDIF wired converter. The main advantage of ... | |
| Apple Airport Express Very Cool Product Transit does not upsample to 48 kHz. I can program Transit to do 44.1 or 24/96 and it passes iTunes, MP3 and AC3. It uses a custom driver that bypasses Windows Kmixer.Transit is probably not the best solution for iMac. I have heard that the driver... | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM If you are wanting to go USB to coax S/PDIF, why not just do only that? The M-Audio Transit or the Edirol boards can be modded to give you virtually jitter-free digital out. Either one can also be installed inside a DAC, eliminating the S/PDIF cab... | |
| DAC's for the money? You player is actually one of the best players to mod. Makes a great transport. IF you get an outboard DAC, you should consider at least getting the digital out modded and maybe a more stable clock for it. Otherwise, you will not get the full bene... | |
| I want a change, but what? If you read the article, you will find that it is not poor transport design, but the manufacturer taking necessary steps to avoid failing FCC testing. After my mods, the transport can take a 1m cable, but stock transports have very slow risetimes,... | |
| I want a change, but what? Read this and you might decide not to buy new, more expensive gear:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue15/modsnugent.htmAlso, your digital cable should be 1.5m long:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm | |
| Apple Airport Express Very Cool Product "Is this modification necessary to go from Airport Express via iTunes to an external DAC connected to my stereo system?"If you want S/PDIF coaxial (the lowest jitter option) to go to your high-quality DAC, then yes is the answer. | |
| Digital Cable thoughts Make sure it is 1.5m long. See my white-paper:http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm | |
| PC Audio starting point I can play iTunes with my PC using a modified Transit USB to S/PDIF converter with coax digital out. I drive a modified P-3A DAC. The quality is as follows:.wav files @16/44.1 - as good as the best transportiTunes - more dynamic than .wav, but a b... | |
| iPod to DAC Connection I use a modified Transit with coax cable attached. It passes everything, including iTunes, bit-perfect .wav files and even MP3. I drive a modified P-3A upsampling DAC with it. The quality of output is as follows:MP3 - acceptable, but depth and dyn... |