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| Does Anyone Offer Audio Mods For A Mac Mini? Duo - get a new Hynes supply for your Mini, put a SSD and 8 gigs DRAM in it and do the tweaks at: iTunes iBooks - "audio optimization guides"This is reference quality and has earned several best of shows using Amarra.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Optimizing Digital Volume Control Even 100 ohms is too high IMO. The lower the better. This alone does not guarantee that the output driver is a good one though. It also requires good circuit design and parts choices as well as good power delivery infrastructure.Steve N.Empirical ... | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps Granny - drive refers to the current-driving capability of the DAC output. If it has 1 ohm output impedance, then it can drive more current than one with 100 ohms output impedance. This is simple electronics 101, batteries and bulbs. The current o... | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps Granny - this demonstrates that your DAC has insufficient drive to be used direct.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Optimizing Digital Volume Control Oferi - I have had he opportunity to compare good active preamps with passive resisive, passive transformer and DACs with good drive. Comparing some of the best of each I conclude that resistive passive is the worst. Transformer and a good DAC are... | |
| Optimizing Digital Volume Control Oferi - The input impedance of an amp has nothing to do with the dynamic response to an input current and voltage signal. It's usually only a resistor to ground.Just put a resistive passive linestage to an amp and you will typically experience a l... | |
| Optimizing Digital Volume Control Ed - 99.9% of iPod users use the stock earphones too. Means nothing. Means that they are just uninformed.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| what are the Best Direct to amps Digital Players ? The key here is the volume control technology. There are only three that compete with the very best preamps:1) DACs that control volume by adjusting the reference voltage2) Transformer-based line-stages added to DACs, such as this one:http://app.a... | |
| Optimizing Digital Volume Control Like I said, the output of the DAC must be low-impedance with a lot of drive capability and then no preamp can beat it.It just makes engineering sense. The more stages you add, the more noise, compression and distortion gets added. Less is more. I... | |
| Optimizing Digital Volume Control The fact is that no preamp will most of the time be better than using an active preamp. A transformer-based linestage (TVC) is one option. A DAC with really good volume technology (not like an active preamp) is another option. Both of these requir... | |
| how do i get my mac minito recognize my usb-spdif If it is a first-generation M2Tech, you will need the correct driver loaded. jkenny can point you to this.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Novice needs Mac Mini and DAC advice Should I be using something different than Itunes to manage my music?(ripping and playback)Absolutely. Amarra for playback and XLD for ripping - see my site for links.Should I be getting external memory to store all the music on to start with?(I h... | |
| Good replacement power supply for Pure i20 The best solution without a doubt is the SR3-7.5 from Paul Hynes Design.I use them for all types of digital.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Does Anyone remember This is an old tweak to reduce jitter coming from the disk. There a lot of ways to do this by tweaking the disk itself, or you can just add a good reclocker to the transport and drive your DAC with a low-jitter signal. Then the cable, CD and trans... | |
| How to remove harshness from my digital gear Lowrider - what can I say? Its the internet and free MP3 music that killed the CD.Better transfer them to SS memory before the ones you have start degrading. They eventually degrade.Steve N.Empirical Audio |