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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Willemj - I’m trying my Hifi-Man phones with my iPhone 6S today!!The one thing that I’m leery of is using that much digital volume control.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD geoffkait - you got it, however, I would start by selling the CD transport and look for a good computer audio source. Too much mucking constantly with CD's, besides you end up listening to tracks that you don't want to hear, and only 10 or 12 of ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Here is a good test to see if your system is "truly resolving":Take a FLAC, uncompressed FLAC, ALAC or AIFF track and convert it to .wav using DBpoweramp or XLD. Play both tracks alternately.If you cannot hear any difference and the .wav does not ... | |
| Power cord for digital stuffs? Here is something that makes an even bigger difference than a $3K power cord:Plasmatron:https://www.vhaudio.com/acpowerconditioning.html Everyone I know that tried one of these on digital bought it. I did. Makes digital sound a lot more like ana... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt - Focal speakers!! At the LA Audio show I heard at least three exhibits using Focals. All sounded really good. I have added Focal to my list of recommended speakers, along with Vapor and TAD.BTW, did you ever compare the Aurender N10 to the t... | |
| Benefits of an external DAC blindjim wrote:"The biggest aspect to supposedly better DACs is the same issue with nearly every electronic device, its power supply. Period. Well, mainly. It’s the usual starting point for nearly every component’s upgrade.Better, read, ‘more expe... | |
| Benefits of an external DAC Shadorne wrote:"Interesting. You advocate feeding a DAC with low jitter. However we all know that this is next to impossible as jitter is inherent in cabling and the way the clock timing is detecting at the receiving end."We don’t ALL know this to... | |
| Benefits of an external DAC whitestix wrote:"Some years ago, I was at the CA Audio show and the particular vendors were using a Bricasti DAC, selling for $5K-$6K. They also had a Jolida Tube DAC which they were able to switch back and forth with the Bricasti DAC. After a cou... | |
| Benefits of an external DAC bigkidz - Empirical Audio makes the cable. It was offered primarily as an upgrade to add to other products because customers were complaining about the high cost of decent cables. It's an option on several product pages, on the pulldown. The be... | |
| Is using streaming services worthy of an audiophile? Here is my take: If you like more modern music selections, Tidal will be great and there is no reason to prevent you from having a audiophile quality experience, assuming your system is up to snuff. Most modern recordings in PCM use the full dyn... | |
| Mutec Jitter Reduction and Digital Switching If you change sources or cables, does the output sound different? | |
| Benefits of an external DAC The main benefit of an external DAC is that you at least have a chance to feed it a low-jitter source. Jitter is the #1 thing that can prevent digital from sounding like analog. If your transport does not low enough jitter, you can add a good re... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC More expensive:Empirical Audio, dCS, Ayre, PSAudio, Playback designs, BricastiHere is a top-tier PCM DAC shootout that has been ongoing for several years and involves many DACs (73 pages of posts):https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/absolute-to... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC Chord Qute delivers superb detail. If anything, it lacks the best bass response, even with a good LPS. The Qute anyway could use some mods IMO. Difficult because it's so compact.... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC Ive been impressed with the Chord DACs and Resonnesence.Steve N. |