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| How To Get The Best Sound From Pandora & Rhapsody? The first step to getting good quality is to lower the digital stream jitter. This can be accomplished with a Sonos, iPod docking station or computer with toslink output driving a Synchro-Mesh reclocker and then to the DAC.Once you have a low jitt... | |
| IPhone 5S options for audio? Ptss - I know, this i20 is a giant-killer. Even with the stock wall-wart it is amazingly good. I have heard hundreds of DACs too. I want to try a Hynes supply on it next.For $85 it is a no-brainer.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Where's Digital playback at today ? Bill - time to add the Dynamo power supply to your OR4. Also, the Plasmatron from vhaudio.com makes a huge difference. These together deliver a very analog sound, even with 44.1 files.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Where's Digital playback at today ? In_ShoreThings have improved significantly in the last 10 years. Mostly the jitter is now lower than ever. Also DACs are using better digital filters and some use none, which is best. Other advancements are in ground-loop isolation and preamps.Ste... | |
| Keep wife happy with Bluesound Vault with Ipad? Just get a Mac Mini and add an external RAID1 firewire hard disk for your music tracks. Rip CD's using dbpoweramp on a PC or XLD on Mac. Other tips:http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/Then get a Sonos for each room in the house, reclocked... | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house I makes sense to put a tube analog output on a DAC, but even then the power supply must be really good and the tubes really good. The best preamp-type tubes are rare and expensive and mostly NOS. Even these are hard-pressed to deliver tight bass l... | |
| Where's Digital playback at today ? If you want an analog sound from digital, I can get you there, but it may be a bit more than $8K. The best route is computer audio, but I can also get you close using any CD transport, even the one you already use.I typically get a best of show fo... | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house Its beyond me why anyone would put tubes in totally digital equipment, even just for power regulation. Nothing about tubes is interesting for digital. If you want it to perform like something from 1950, this would be the way.When I was in the 7th ... | |
| Computer output to DAC, which route? "If there were one type of any audio output source or method that was better than all of the others, this hobby would be much easier to master"If all designers were equally skilled and all systems were up to snuff, the decision making process woul... | |
| Computer output to DAC, which route? Don't believe everything you read. USB is great if you select the RIGHT USB interface. Beats 99% of transports at any price. Just get an Off-Ramp 5 and Dynamo power supply. It blows away everything, including the very best PCI cards and Firewire i... | |
| Bored with my B&W Zepplin Air If it were me, I would get the Pure i20 iPod dock ($85 on Amazon) and a good power supply for it like a Paulhynesdesign.com. This dock has a superb DAC in it, and low jitter digital feed. Its a giant-killer.Then get a good integrated tube amp and ... | |
| The effect of source and external "double DACs"? There are three things you can do to improve TV sound quality:1) get a good toslink, like:http://best-tronics.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BMI&Product_Code=TOSLINK-XXX&Category_Code=TOSLINKor2) use a Roku 3 to make it a ... | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house Empirical Audio does not exhibit at CES anymore because it is primarily a dealer show. We do RMAF and Newport.Steve N. | |
| New Lampizator Level 4/ Version 4 DAC in the house Agear - I have both Sonos and the Off-Ramp. Even using the Synchro-Mesh reclocker to reduce jitter of the Sonos is not as good as the Off-Ramp by itself. The Off-Ramp is in another class from the other USB converters.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| IPhone 5S options for audio? The best thing is to find a digital docking station like the Pure i20 ($85 on Amazon) that has its own high-quality DAC or otherwise use your own DAC if you have one. The docking connector is the issue. Make sure its compatible.Steve N.Empirical A... |