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| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Ricevs - every manufacturer seems to claim their next DAC is the ultimate giant killer and has zero jitter as well (impossible). I have seen many flops recently. I would listen before buying.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| USB SQ, what can one expect Async USB is not a continuous stream, it is broken up due to handshaking. You have no concept of the science involved. Audio is a real-time process and requires isochronous connections.Ethernet is explicitly packetized. I have Ethernet as well as ... | |
| As good as CD playback You experience with USB will depend entirely on the design of the USB interface, either in the DAC or the USB converter. Most USB implementations are poor, so a good transport ($1K+) will usually beat it.There are exceptions though that beat the v... | |
| Genesis Time Lens The Time Lens is an old product and not suited well to anything but CD players since it will overrun with long playlists. Much lower jitter clocks and faster logic interface technology is available now. I used to mod several older reclockers, incl... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD The best Hard Disks are Maxtor, and server-grade.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD CT - Remote can be found by searching iTunes store for apps through iTunes.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC If the Bricasti does not need the +5V in the USB cable, it will work. Ask them or refer to the specs.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| USB SQ, what can one expect XMOS provides a tool to record errors on the USB cable. Errors do happen occasionally.Gordon Rankin believes that they occur often and are the cause of some SQ issues. I'm not so sure...Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| USB SQ, what can one expect Willie - a dual cable may help, but it does not eliminate the common-mode noise problem.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD "The Antipodes is Unix based, while the CAT is Windows based. Any advantages to either?"As I said before, the only OS that will give you the sams SQ for wav and FLAC is Linux."Also, couldn't Mitch simply use your Short Block to sever the USB power... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Mitch - a good USB interface requires special attention to power supply, power delivery, ground-plane integrity, impedance matching, logic family choice, clock oscillator choice, minimal gate-level design and of course implementation of the circui... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Mitch - as I said before, it is a good USB interface that makes the Antipodes rise above everything else.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC "I just read about the Synchro-Mesh and was excited about the idea of it and then when reading about it I noticed it has no USB in?"The SM is for reclocking Sonos, apple-TV, transports, Squeezebox, computer S/PDIF etc...The Off-Ramp is for USB to ... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC "Could I use a " Antipodes Linux-based server driving the USB in my DAC and then maybe also use a Dynamo Hynes-based power supply?"The Dynamo is only for powering the Off-Ramp or Synchro-Mesh.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Fsmith wrote:"Not sure it is quite there yet in the uber competitive lower upper class of to name just a few Lampi, Berkeley, Meitner, Bricasti, MSB, dCS and it looks as if the DirectStream has poked its heard into there as well into this prestigi... |