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| DACs and bass response? Tight bass in a DAC is achieved by a combination of low jitter of the interface or input signal to the DAC as well as power delivery that enables this in the DAC.Power delivery includes power supply, voltage regulators, power storage caps and powe... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Merrill stuff is good. One of the few SS amps I recommend, along with Wells Audio and D'angostino.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Recommendations for music network player If you are using USB to the DAC, the Antipodes and Aurender N10 are the best picks.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Upgrading digital source device is not easy For your computer digital sources, You can do much better. Much lower jitter.Options:1) Empirical Audio Interchange DLNA renderer with HDMI I2S output - you can use Jriver or Audirvana+ as players2) Empirical Audio Off-Ramp 6 XMOS USB converter (g... | |
| Upgrading digital source device is not easy See the "favorite bit" DACs at the audiostream.com review site.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Solid state DAC under 12K retail preferably with ethernet I rarely post comments in user forums but regarding the Bricasti M1 I feel compelled to comment. For the past few months I have owned the M1 limited gold with built in ethernet interface and must say that it is simply the most elegant piece of ele... | |
| Solid state DAC under 12K retail preferably with ethernet I believe the Bricasti is certified roon-ready, I recently checked the Bricasti and Roon website to confirm it.Actually, you must add the Bricasti M5 to get Roon-Ready:http://www.bricasti.com/en/consumer/m5.php You could add the M5 to the Overdriv... | |
| Suggestions for streaming equipment The sound quality is not in the streamer but in the DAC, and you already have that in your disc player.If you use a streamer, you are using an outboard DAC. The outboard DAC will usually be sensitive to incoming signal jitter, so the streamer jitt... | |
| Suggestions for streaming equipment These jitter measurements are mildly interesting. Low jitter measured one way is not an end-all, otherwise a few picoseconds of jitter would be all we need and no other products would compete. Not the case.I use a completely different direct metho... | |
| Suggestions for streaming equipment The cheap way to get nice results is the Raspberry Pi for $40 (Amazon) and the Allo DigiOne (Allo in India) for $100 and a SD card for $10. It’s a 2-board stack with connectors. You can put it in a box, or not. They make lots of plastic boxes for ... | |
| Equalizers- love them or hate them and why? Every hardware equalizer I have heard or used sucked. Most of the software equalizers also suck.On the other hand, the parametric EQ in Amarra is quite excellent. You can use it to tweak the room response and speaker response. Very transparent,... | |
| We need DAC's with tone controls and EQ Several good software players have EQ built-in, including Amarra, and some you can get EQ plug-ins for.With a good DAC, you should not need EQ. Everything sounds good, no matter what loudness or genre.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! More than 80% of digital component(perhaps all components in a refined system) performance is isolation and noise elimination. Certainly important, but I would argue that power delivery is more important. That includes power supply, regulators an... | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! So presumably you also dispute certain manufacturers claims and test results and also Stereophile independent test results on several DACs. Do you still sell reclocking jitter reduction solutions?I have not heard every DAC, but have yet to hear on... | |
| Seeking Advice on NOS DAC @lowrider57 , the best USB converter is the Berkeley. Find one used.I have abandoned USB after doing 6 generations of interfaces. I even designed a XMOS galvanically isolated one like the Berkeley. Ethernet is superior for sound quality and setup.... |