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| CD/DVD player advice Just buy an older used OPPO on Audiogon or ebay. They sound great and have balanced outputs as well for future system upgrades. | |
| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? Why don't you get a used OPPO? Then you can view blu-ray movies as well.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? Forget about trying to get a low jitter signal from a CD player. You have to spend at least $20K to achieve this.You can get the same or better result by purchasing a cheaper CD player, even used, with S/PDIF output and reclock it with a good rec... | |
| Software to rip CD for lumin A1 streamer Dbpoweramp is the best. Get the pro version. Makes a big difference. Rip to .wav format only if you care about sonics. If you want all of the tags, then FLAC.If you are using Mac, then XLD is free. Also very good.Good idea to get a good clean... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC Ground-loops don't generally cause harshness, only HF background noise. Some reclockers provide galvanic isolation, so eliminates ground-loop.Cables make a big difference and you should be using the best I2S or the best S/PDIF you can get, withou... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC BTW, its not a magnetic charge, its static charge. The degausser evidently bleeds it off. I know that removing static charge helps, however you do it. Some people put the disk on a large solid piece of grounded metal.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC I used to mod DACs, about 20 different ones. They all had strengths and weaknesses and many had poor design features that were obviously copied from another manufacturer that knew little about it too, even Sony did this. The most common thing I ... | |
| Logitech Transporter out of sync with EMM Labs DAC6e SE word clock BTW, this is not about passing around clocks. This word-clock is used to synchronize the source clock so that the stream coming into the DAC is synchronous with the local low-jitter fixed frequency MASTER clock. Perfectly good solution that can ... | |
| Logitech Transporter out of sync with EMM Labs DAC6e SE word clock Seems to me you have to enable it at the Transporter, which makes sense. The free-running clock in there has to be synced to the word-clock, so it may be disabled as default.I have used it before and it did work with my products years ago.Steve N... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC I bought this plastic spray from Home Depot and put a shield over the disks I made from thin card stock to protect the center hub. This rubbery coating makes a BIG difference. You used to be able to buy rings made of similar material and glue th... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC If the jitter is truly low from the transport, then the problem is likely the DAC. If the DAC does not have a good volume control technology in it, this could be the problem too. Perhaps not that much better than the preamp, just different.I wan... | |
| Looking for Better Jitter Reduction in a DAC It is quite easy to go down the garden path with digital. There are a lot of variables, even when using a transport, including jitter, digital filtering in the DAC and DAC output stage and power system. Any of these can make it sound "digital".T... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD agear - if I can get 176 and 192 working reliably, I will launch the new XMOS module.. If not, it will be the Interchange using Ethernet.The firmware/CPLD design is not mine, and I think there is an initialization bug.. the designer has dissappear... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt - I recently built an ODSX for a customer that did not care about 176 or 192 file playback, so I installed my new XMOS USB interface in it for him. This is the first one like this. This combo is simply incredible. Hands-down the best SQ I h... | |
| Can a apple airport express be part of a audiophile system? I have a LOT of experience with the AE. I even gutted it and created my own product from it, using reclocking and a lower jitter clock. I ultimately abandoned the product because the SQ just wasn’t there and I didn’t want my company name on such a... |