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| SW1X Audio Design DAC II Absolute Top Tier Ref NOS DAC One thing to realize with this DAC, unlike the Border Patrol, is that you will hear the jitter of the transport. If you change cables, transports or treat the disk, you will probably hear differences. This is why you are liking the silver coax cab... | |
| Tidal, Deezer Can anyone tell me what the fascination is with "downloading files"?I guess owning music? Is better than streaming music? I find that by exploring hundreds of artists on the fly and listening is very enjoyable.I don't see any benefit to building m... | |
| Questions from a noob on digital streaming The FLAC files might be identical when unpacked to WAV, but the players all change the SQ when unpacking FLAC on-the-fly. I have tried it with Amarra, Foobar, Kinsky, Kazoo and Twonky. I have even demonstrated this at RMAF and other shows.Steve ... | |
| Questions from a noob on digital streaming If you want to do cheap, just get a Raspberry Pi, a microSD memory card and a Digione HAT board. Install freeware Dietpi and you can make it Roon-bridge or DLNA/UPnP compatible with software options. Then you can stream or play local files with A... | |
| Questions from a noob on digital streaming The one I like best that is UPnP for streaming is Linn Kazoo with BubbleUPnP server. I suspect that it will support Qobuz. Another thing to try is Lumin with BubbleUPnP server.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Questions from a noob on digital streaming Every playback/control software sounds different. If you want to stream Tidal, the options available do not deliver the best SQ compared to players that do not stream IME. Also, since Tidal only streams FLAC files, so I don’t find these to quite b... | |
| Any Empirical Audio Synchro Mesh users out there? It does not really matter if it's a Sonos, a Macbook Pro or a transport. The data is the data. That is all that matters with a reclocker. The timing is discarded from the source.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Streamer/DAC recommendation Two things will limit your ultimate SQ:1) FLAC files streamed from Tidal2) Player that supports streamingFLAC files can probably be transcoded to WAV using HQPlayer if you can figure out how to use it.If you were to change to a non-streaming solut... | |
| Audio Converter Software I doubt if you will find a better converter than dbpoweramp. I use it on PC and XLD on Mac exclusively.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| CD/SACD player output options Oppo. | |
| Tidal, Deezer I don't see any benefit to building my own library of music, when I have a much bigger, growing library of music at my fingertips ready to be streamed??? that is fine as long as Tidal stays in business...Steve N. | |
| Any Empirical Audio Synchro Mesh users out there? See more customer feedbacks here:New version:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154039.0 Older version:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=106328.0 http://www.empiricalaudio.com/news-and-reviews/synchro-mesh Older version can become... | |
| Tidal, Deezer I found Tidal SQ to sound the same as the same local music file, but the SQ is highly dependent on the player software. They all sound different: Roon, Jriver, Audirvana, Twonky, Kazoo. The most live and accurate sound I have found is Linn Kinsky ... | |
| New dac Before you replace the DAC, see if it isn't the jitter from the Bluesound and transport that is causing this. Do both sources lack mid-bass?Here is some typical jitter:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154408.0 http://www.audiocircle.com... | |
| Basic DAC Question 1) If you are playing CD's on the Oppo, then driving analog cables to the Marantz preamp, you are only using the DAC in the Oppo.2) If you are playing CD's in the Oppo, but driving digital cable to the Directstream DAC and then analog cables to th... |