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| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house "If this is reality and believe in break in period, why bother showcasing your system if they are not at its best?"Well, the show managers will not let us in but one day before the shows and this is simply not enough for break-in. Barely enough ti... | |
| Streaming, Apple TV, Tell me why not. K - I only know what I hear. I actually abandoned a product that I had invested a lot of money in based on the board from the AE. Maybe it screwed-up the offset or something else. This would not show up in a bit-perfect test. It may also be a real... | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house You can get close to the Duelands with ~3uFd oil caps combined with .22uFd CUTF caps from v-cap.com. I think the non-CAST Duelands would be sufficient. The CAST are best in speaker crossovers.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house "Steve, the Ifi crew claims lower jitter specs than Offramp at a fraction of the cost (www.digitalaudioreview). Any comments?"I don't know where they get this. Send me an iFi and i'll publish the jitter distributions of OR5 and iFi.In the end what... | |
| Streaming, Apple TV, Tell me why not. Kijanki - I don't agree. Its more than just the jitter. The decoding of ALAC on the AE board is the problem I think. I have reclocked, modded and even tried to market a product made from the AE. Its beyond help IMO. I know this thing inside and ou... | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house This is what I say on every forum. The jitter of the digital source is MORE IMPORTANT than the DAC. It's true. And Empirical Audio has been developing lower and lower jitter products for more than 15 years.You must understand what jitter is and ho... | |
| Shootout Apple TV vs Logitec Duet The Duet has lower jitter than the ATV and it does not resample the data to 24/48 or stream in ALAC like the ATV does.Jitter is your enemy, making the SQ poor. I would recommend staying with the Duet and maybe even adding a reclocker like the Sync... | |
| Streaming, Apple TV, Tell me why not. Because ATV resamples to 24/48 and ATV and AirPort Express use WiFi and convert to Apple Lossless, the audio quality is compromised. Even reclocking these to reduce jitter is not that great. I have extensive experience with Apple products.Sonos on... | |
| Oppo 105 Analog vs HDMI? If you bypass the preamp and go strictly with amps, the Oppo is probably as good or better than the Marantz. The Oppos would be the volume controller. The problem is overkill on preamps I think. They are causing a lot of compression. If you had ju... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE I misspoke - the DLNA to the Oppo is wired Ethernet, so you will need a router nearby.I use my Oppo with wired Ethernet to view internet TV and movies.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE You can use Win8 WMP wirelessly to stream audio to your OPPO. It is a DLNA device so this is built-in. The problem will be audio quality (jitter) because it uses a clock inside the Oppo for master clock. Also, not sure how user friendly DLNA will ... | |
| Is there a Rosetta Stone for digital speak? ADM - I agree with WTF. iTunes is a rather poor playback software. The upgrade programs like Amarra make a significant difference and they have features like Cache mode that play from memory rather than disk that improve performance even more. I a... | |
| Help with sonos connect The problem is that the digital source quality is more important than DAC or preamp or amps. You can use a Sonos and drive a $150K system and it will still sound mediocre, like stereo, not music.The source is exactly where you should put your mone... | |
| Is there a Music Player for this? Kenney - Off-Ramp 5 has gotten even better now by adding 2 accessories:1) Dynamo power supply (linear based on Hynes technology)2) BNC-BNC coax cable with RCA adapters - unbeaten so farWhere did you read the 6-moons recommendation?Steve N.Empirica... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Timlub - I recommend the Off-Ramp 5 even with a DAC that has Async USB input. It is not a matter of it working. It is a mater of it sounding really good.I even recommend using the Off-Ramp with my own Overdrive DAC for best results. I now offer a ... |