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| How does a Transport effect sound? Background scattered light has not been addressed by any manufacturers, at least not to any great extent. So there’s that. And magnetism and static electricity are still problems, there’s that, too. I suspect maybe “jitter” isn’t the do-all end-al... | |
| High End DAC's compared In my mind, high-end is dCS, Emm labs, Empirical Audio, Light Harmonic DaVinci, Aqui HiFi, Resonessence, TotalDAC, Chord etc., but your Bryston is a solid affordable choice. They are good people.If you want good SQ from your Oppo as a transport, ... | |
| DAC recommendation With your budget, just get a Border Patrol DAC.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? The operative word here is JITTER.Jitter is the variability in the timing of the bits coming out the end of the S/PDIF cable from the CD transport. At 44.1kHz sample-rate, the bits frequency is around 2.8MHz. ANY variability in the timing of these... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD “We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”Like most things, there is licorice and then there is fine licorice.ct - It is the DSP feature of volume control that virtually all of these... | |
| Upgrade over Sonos ZP90? Too bad, but better than being in Trump land, trust me.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD ct - thanks for the kind words.Since the ODSX review came out, I tried a different player software than Jriver. Minimserver with Linn Kinsky. This actually sounds more live and more impactful than Jriver. Not sure any reviewer would be willing ... | |
| Upgrade over Sonos ZP90? ja_zz - there is 0% potential to go wrong, besides I offer 30-day money-back, less shipping. It’s a small risk to try it at least. Read these customer feedbacks in the last 3 weeks:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154039.0 Synchro-Mesh w... | |
| Upgrade over Sonos ZP90? You need the better S/PDIF cable anyway, so there is no savings there - I disagree, with Synchro Mesh Clocker you are adding another component in the middle of Sonos and DAC. So you do end up buying an additional S/PDIF cable instead of going dire... | |
| Upgrade over Sonos ZP90? Yes. It is always better to design and power something separately rather than modding. I know this because I modded all types of transports and computer audio devices for 10 years, including Sonos. This is better. You need the better S/PDIF cable ... | |
| Will I benefit from a new DAC that can upscale to 192 I would restate that as "reliably minimizes incoming jitter". There will still be jitter and the input will still be sensitive to jitter.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Upgrade over Sonos ZP90? Forget about replacing the Sonos. Just add a $599 Synchro-Mesh reclocker and a good $275 BNC S/PDIF cable to it. Here are jitter plots before and after:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154310.0 20psec of jitter from a Sonos. Never happen... | |
| Linear Power Supply for a DAC LPS for digital has different requirements than for analog preamp etc..The digital LPS should be very fast reacting to provide the current transients for digital. I recommend the Sbooster supplies.Analog supply should be quiet, can be slower resp... | |
| Will I benefit from a new DAC that can upscale to 192 You are correct, reducing jitter is more important than upsampling.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Reference level DAC + Streamer You need to decide if you want to go with XMOS USB technology or the newer Ethernet technology for input to the DAC.If USB, then it makes sense to spend a lot on a server, like Antipodes or Aurender N10 etc.. These are optimized for good sound qua... |