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| What is the missing element? USB stands for UNIVERSAL serial bus. There hundreds of DACs with USB input, some with USB output, lots of USB converters and more and more music servers with USB out. Get educated. | |
| What is the missing element? "Does anyone know if jitter can be introduced in the recording process? If so, is there a way to deal with it?"Absolutely. No way to fix it once the recording is made.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Another lame question TG - I have had AE and even modded them. A LOT of experience with it. There is something fundamentally wrong with it and I think it might be the CODEC for the ALAC conversion. No matter what you do to it, reclocking, modding including clock upgrad... | |
| What is the missing element? Charles - Most devices that deliver low jitter are buffering either packets over the ethernet or WiFi or they are buffering bursts over USB from a computer. The data is then clocked out of these buffers with a free-running clock. The latter is mor... | |
| Can better parts..... You can generally get improvements upgrading series signal coupling caps, like VCaps or Dueland. Other caps like powr decoupling may be hit and miss or have little effect unless you know what you are doing. Having modded lots of components over th... | |
| Another lame question You can put the music files on any device you want, another computer upstairs, a network drive etc.. The iTunes software will go to that location and retrieve the files and play them. You just have to tell iTunes where the music files reside.iTune... | |
| What is the missing element? Megida has little to lose here. Most of these reclocking and USB converters have money-back guarantees. If it does not wow you, send it back.I guarantee my products will wow you, or there is something else seriously wrong with your system.Steve N.... | |
| What is the missing element? "As I understand it though, If s/pdif is being used on a source that already has high jitter, it will do nothing to reduce that jitter. It just wont add any more, at least not on the level usb would. I can't imagine a computer being a low jitter e... | |
| What is the missing element? Cerrot - Based on this post you do not know much about the technical aspects of USB. A PCI card and a USB interface can perform equally well from the S/PDIF output based on the design and implementation of each and the supporting power systems.Ste... | |
| What is the missing element? Megido - another thing that can prevent you from hearing the difference between .wav and FLAC is the active preamp. Most people use one and it's not a $15K one. Eliminating this in favor of a good DAC volume or a transformer linestage makes a big ... | |
| What is the missing element? It is possible to match or even beat your vinyl with the RIGHT digital:www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95464.msg960567#msg960567www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=105049.msg1159717#msg1159717forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?icomp&13519581... | |
| What is the missing element? "it sounds like congested chaos, has a rough texture (especially noticeable in voices)and overall is just very brash sounding."Two things are likely causing this:1) too much audible jitter in your digital source - typical for rough textured vocals... | |
| Your advice/thoughts concerning my digital source The NeoTV will be the weak-link here due to jitter. You can reduce this significantly be reclocking with a Synchro-mesh, but it will not be bit-perfect anymore:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=106328.0If you want to use USB, you must fir... | |
| Music Server vs Computer? You are better off to use USB output on the server so the master clock is in the DAC or USB converter, not the server.This also allows upgrading as the technology improves.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Music Server vs Computer? The problem with most servers is that they force you into using FLAC, they don't import .wav files etc.. Lack of flexibility. They are mostly compromised for SQ due to either poor ripping software, poor playback software or both.There are some exc... |