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| DAC or streamer? Which one is impacted by technology improvements? Technology can impact either:MQA and DSD impacts DACs Future formats could impact DACs.Interfaces including USB, Bluetooth and Ethernet/WIFI impacts DACs.MQA, DSD, Bluetooth and Ethernet impacts streamers. Even new player software like Roon or s... | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac How do you know that it matters with most DACs? I modded many DACs for 10 years, I have played with customers DACs and I have heard many DACs at trade shows for 15 years.So are you saying that DACs that are immune to incoming jitter are not good s... | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac gdhal - can you hear any difference when you use different S/PDIF coax cables?If so, then the transport jitter still matters. It does with most DACs.The very few DAC's where it doesn't have any effect are not very good sounding IMO, because of th... | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac - are there any transports that lack a buffer??Yes, 99% of them do not have a buffer.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac Transports don't have a sound of their own. They produce bit perfect digital output and bitperfect is bitperfect. You just want a quiet and sturdy one, and that is allNot true. The difference in transports is the jitter, which includes the Master... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Doesn't foobar also support DLNA? That was the one that I used while I was experimenting with the ethernet input, apart from Jriver.I didn't know that, thanks. I have not used Foobar for years, so I only have an older version. I'll give it a try... | |
| Advantage of PS Audio Bridge II over USB cable from PC? cal - yes, with most power supplies, you will need to connect a ground wire from the earth ground in the power cord to the minus on the output cable, or run a separate wire to the outlet with a banana plug in the outlet or screw to the grounding s... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Do you know what the similarities and/or differences of your implementation of ethernet re my Resolution Audio Cantata?I Googled the Cantata to learn about it. The Ethernet is used as a method to extend the range of USB (using pont neuf), so this... | |
| Advantage of PS Audio Bridge II over USB cable from PC? If you do use Ethernet, which I recommend, make sure you ground the LPS that powers your router. Connect earth ground to DC common of the router DC power cable. I recommend using good CAT7 cables and the EMO EN-70e isolator.BTW, jitter is only r... | |
| Advantage of PS Audio Bridge II over USB cable from PC? It's hard to say what the improvement will be with this particular implementation, but I can tell you with my own products I did an apples-to-apples comparison of galvanically isolated XMOS USB to Ethernet and here are the results:http://www.audio... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I don’t think anyone doubts that Ethernet is the ideal way to transfer those magic bits, but most dacs (other than yours, the Ayre and a very few others) don’t have an Ethernet music input. Also, the ONLY proper way to utilize “Ethernet music out”... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD FYI, a study of measurements and listening I did today comparing USB to Ethernet. They are both good BTW, but there is a clear winner.http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=155232.0 Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I think Amarra is still only available for Mac. I run Jriver on Mac as well.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD We used JRiver on both systems.Matt - I don't understand why you would use Jriver. Don't these servers have their own optimized playback software?My own comparisons with USB of Jriver and Amarra always showed Amarra to be better anyway.Steve N.Em... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD the output stage runs in pure Class A it actually gets hot, so they are running some actual juice through itSo is the output stage of the Overdrive SX, as well as the other stages. I expect my output stage is more linear than DaVinci.They are fo... |