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| digital If you have a PC laptop with a CDROM drive and DBpoweramp (a free app), you can already do this. You just need a disk big enough on the laptop to hold all of the content. I recommend ripping to FLAC format if you want all of the tags available, ... | |
| Bravo UltraBit Platinum ! If you like what Ultrabit does to reduce jitter a tiny bit, you will love reducing jitter to 8psec with this:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/synchro-mesh https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=157348.0 and using a really good S/PDIF ca... | |
| My 6922 Tubes Are Too Bright! I used the Siemens CCA grey-plate tubes in my tube DAC I used to manufacture. Excellent tube, fast and clean. They can be $450 a pair from Germany on ebay, but worth it. If your system still sounds bright with this tube, then there is something... | |
| Do devices streaming Deezer differ in quality? Jitter is the important effect on sound quality here. The lower the jitter, the better the SQ. Also, the playback software can affect the SQ.If you want a really low jitter S/PDIF coax feed, consider an Ethernet renderer like the Interchange if ... | |
| Mutec Jitter Reduction and Digital Switching If you are talking about moving data into a computer, this is usually from a A/D converter or by copying from a website like HDtracks. This is inbound data. Online streaming data like Roon is only temporarily stored as it is streamed out.If you ar... | |
| Mutec Jitter Reduction and Digital Switching Correct, jitter is a non-issue for digital transfer to a computer. Jitter in an A/D converter is critical though.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Mutec Jitter Reduction and Digital Switching It would be useful if manufacturers actually made jitter measurements, like these:https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=157348.0 The function of these devices is to reduce jitter after all. On the other hand, I believe most manufacturers do... | |
| price of Oppo players threw the roof I don't think they are throwing any roofs... Its through, not threw. | |
| Please help me find perfect dac for me I just completed the latest upgrades for an SE from a customer in China. Sounds stellar. This is music.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Simaudio 260D - As transport why Cambridge doesn’t publish critical information such as THD, signal to noise ratio,Intrinsic Jitter and so on as Simaudio and other brands do.Intrinsic jitter is a useless number anyway.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Streaming is FLAC files so far, so it will never be quite as good as wav files. The difference I hear with wav files is soundstage and high-frequency reflections off the venue. Whether you will hear this difference depends on your system.I perso... | |
| Best CD/DVD cleaners & tweaks? I think the best CD treatment is the Ultrabit platinum or follow-ons. Expensive though.You are better off to spend a bit more and eliminate the need to do any tweaks ever again to reduce jitter. This is what you are doing after all.A Synchro-Mes... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? I guess I don't have the gilded ears (or revealing enough system) to hear jitter. As much as I have obsessed over this, I have come to the conclusion if I cannot hear it (including long listening sessions), I won't worry about it.There must be so... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? I have not been able to get streamed hi-res files to sound anywhere near as good as my CDs and LPs. I really wish that wasn't the case.The streamer you use and the playback software is the usual culprit, but also FLAC encoding will never sound as... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Steve from Empirical:Does the Synchro-Mesh improve the optical out of most TVs, especially Sony?If it's PCM, the answer is yes. If it's Dolby Pro-logic or Dolby Digital, you need the iFi SPDIF iPurifier.Does the Synchro-Mesh improve the optical o... |