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| CD Player used as transport BTW, 30-day money-back, less shipping cost, no questions asked on the Synchro-Mesh and my coax cables. My BNC cables come with 75 ohm RCA adapters.There are customer feedback on both on my forum:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154039.0 ... | |
| CD Player used as transport I have an older Wadia transport since new and connect it to a Jadis dac by the AES connection also have a Shitt Gungnir M/B dac connected to a Cambridge Audio CDX transport by way of the rca. Do you feel your answer would improve either of my dac ... | |
| CD Player used as transport Every transport will have different jitter characteristics, and typically fairly high jitter. This is the difference you are hearing. For transports, only output jitter matters, nothing else. You can lower this a bit by putting various treatmen... | |
| best way to connect pc to dac Ethernet or WiFi. Get a stand-alone interface, DAC or server with Ethernet interface, either a DLNA endpoint or a Roon RAAT endpoint.Best SQ I have found is using Twonky or Minimserver using Linn Kinsky to a DLNA endpoint. I have designed 6 genera... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? ozzy - First, you purchased an older model Synchro-Mesh. Not all DACs respond well because some have internal resampling already. It is also critical to use a good output cable.Second, I always refund within 2 weeks if returned within 30 days. Did... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? I promised to measure jitter for two cables for jc4659, a Belden and a Canare BNC cable. Here are the results:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154425.msg1669506#msg1669506 Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? I have a PS Audio DirectStream DAC and transport, interconnected with an HDMI cable over their I2S interface. From what I understand, they reduce jitter (timing errors) with the separation of the bits from the timing on that interface.Actually, t... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I tried Foobar on my Mac and could not get it to work.Kinsky is a bit bare-bones, but if it gives the best SQ, that is what I’m after. Ease of use is secondary to me. That’s why all of my files are in .wav format. Minimserver does allow one to ch... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD You mentioned the ODSX review. Can you point us to it? I couldn't find it doing a quick Google search and didn't see a link on your website either.It's here:https://www.audiostream.com/content/empirical-audio-overdrive-sx-ethernet-dacpre BTW, I fi... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? And, if I’m not mistaken, any delta-sigma only DAC will "break" bit perfect PCM playback.So, is R2R the only way to get bit-perfect playback?Almost every DAC does some kind of modification in the D/A in order to effectively filter out artifacts.St... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? ASRC (asynchronous sample rate conversion) is the mechanism it uses to lower jitter. I’m not a fan of that - but some like the change in the sound. My problem with ASRC is that it resamples the input with a more accurate clock - but tho the output... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? Perfect, ship them to:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/about-empirical-audio/contact Thanks,Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Digital inputs ....is one really better than another? Steve, are you saying that AES/EBU, when done right, is the best connection?There are positives and negatives with AES/EBU.Positives:1) some common-mode noise rejection - this can be accomplished with S/PDIF with a pulse transformer and it’s even ... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? Stick to an all-in-one-box player and the interface problem is eliminated! OPPO!!!No interface problem, but you are stuck with this jitter that you can do nothing about:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154408.msg1650944#msg1650944 That i... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? Select a DAC that rejects interface jitter and then all that you will hear is the inherent jitter in its own internal asynchronous clock driving the DAC.Absolutely true, and this is precisely the problem. You are trapped with a substandard Master ... |