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| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Two things that will improve your system:1) galvanically isolate your cable box - if you are using cable TV, this has a different grounding system, so you are creating BAD ground loops by connecting it to your TV/audio system. Get a Jensen isolati... | |
| Is there a Music Player for this? Getting the best result from this requires that you use USB, not S/PDIF, and force the Master Clock outside the server in a USB converter. There are at least 2 servers that output music streams over USB, Antipodes and Sonore.A good USB converter i... | |
| Network digital players--any good? I have a lot of experience with many of these. I think you are better off to keep the Touch and just improve the jitter from it. Buying a combination product usually involves compromises, particularly to what counts most, the jitter.The jitter of ... | |
| Length of digital cable? "I was using separate circuits for digital and analogue. That is, transport was on separate circuit but was using the amp's onboard D/A converter."That could easily do it. | |
| Length of digital cable? HK990 issue was likely a ground-loop issue.One must take care to use the optimum AC outlets and circuits for digital, particularly when the devices don't have galvanic isolation from each other. Never use two different phases from a panel and best... | |
| Length of digital cable? The BNC-BNC cable is on the pulldown menu at the top of the Off-Ramp page. It is generally sold as an accessory to the Off-Ramp, but can be purchased alone. You can also email me and I can send you a paypal invoice.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house Metralla - these that you mention are not digital application of tubes. These tubes are all used in the analog output stages.I also used to offer a tube output DAC. This is analog, not digital.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Length of digital cable? Arnett - 18 feet is totally unnecessary and you can do a LOT better than Belden 1694A. Many years ago when I still had a set of inexpensive cable from 1964A. I have a giant spool of it. I finally concluded that it cannot be done.If you want a fant... | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house Agear - did you go to THE Show at CES? | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house Agear - look, there is nothing sinister about my comments of tubes not being the best choice for digital. Any EE worth his salt will agree with this. I have 30 years of salt in my ears.This is a lot like the habit that many designers have to use H... | |
| Help with sonos connect "what is the difference between the Sonos re clock mod and what you are selling?"Modding the Sonos will certainly improve things, particularly if you replace the clock and the clock power supply. I used to mod more than 40 different products from ... | |
| Help with sonos connect Theo - you have definitely heard jitter. You just don't know what it sounds like until its eliminated. All of the industry experts agree that jitter is the #1 problem with digital.Trying to fix jitter by changing DACs is like trying to fix a flat ... | |
| Wadia 170 transport Use a Pure i20 instead ($85 on Amazon) and reclock it with a Synchro-Mesh powered by a Dynamo power supply. This will sound better.http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/synchro-meshSteve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Help with sonos connect A new DAC is not the way to improve Sonos. A reclocker like the Synchro-Mesh in between the Sonos and the DAC is the ticket:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/synchro-meshCustomer reviews:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/news-and-reviews/synchro-... | |
| Is there a Rosetta Stone for digital speak? Digital is just like analog in that respect. The more separates you use, the better the result and of course the higher the price.If you are after the holy grail, the first hurdle is to achieve a really low jitter digital source. One way to get th... |