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| Does The Squeezebox Touch Have a Worthy Successor? Sonos is my recommendation, and reclock it. I use one myself. I also have SB3Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What do you use to check for brightness? If you get the CD remaster of Jimi Hendrix, this is quite harsh on all but the very best systems.Likewise, if the bass in Flight of the cosmic Hippos drives you out of the room, you have bass problems in your system.Both of these problems can usua... | |
| iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable Instead, I highly recommend getting a Pure i20 digital ipod dock. It has a superb DAC that beats the DAC in the ipod. Only about $85 on Amazon. RCA analog and S/PDIF digital outs.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Questioning a/c isolation for digital.? Isolation does far more than eliminate hum.Steve N. | |
| Oooh Potential Squeezebox Touch replacement Can the thing really do 24/192 over WiFi? I doubt it. Probably wired Ethernet only.Even if it does everything you want, it undoubtedly will need reclocking to reduce jitter. These are not high-end pieces.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Questioning a/c isolation for digital.? Ptss - you are better off to get some kind of isolation or volume-control transformer.Some large AC power transformers are available, but they only solve the problem of isolating house ground from audio system ground, they don't solve the problem ... | |
| Questioning a/c isolation for digital.? Elizabeth - 99.9% of power conditioners are not isolation transformers. Only an isolation transformer can separate the ground connections and eliminate ground-loops. Even this is not optimum. Better to have isolation at each component.Conditioners... | |
| How to change current version of amarra to 4319?? You must enter the original password and then a new one each time, so you must keep track of the latest password.Make sure you run the "clear configuration" app before installing the new version. It is in the "extras" folder.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Questioning a/c isolation for digital.? Isolation of ANY component in your system means fewer ground-loops. Ground-loops are insidious things, not only creating hum, but also HF sibilance. Once they are eliminated, the noise floor drops considerably revealing much more of the music.Ther... | |
| Dac Questions from an Analogue guy : If the USB port next to the edge of the machine is #1, then you should be using #4.BTW, I have a Hynes supply that I'm using for my 2009 Mini. Huge improvement. Its a big one, about $850-900, but the dynamics are killer good. I'll be importing the... | |
| How to change current version of amarra to 4319?? The 4318 version is on their server and can be downloaded. I asked them to put it there. It is my reference.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Dac Questions from an Analogue guy : The best configuration is a Oct 2009 Mac Mini with a firewire external drive for the library. Only use one USB port, the one next to the one in the middle of the chassis. Ports matter. Best to replace the HDD with a SSD from otherworldcomputing.co... | |
| How to change current version of amarra to 4319?? You will need your activation code to load any new version. You will need a full Amarra license. If you forgot your code, email Amarra.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Downloading & Converting Music Peter - because the masters of most of these older tracks are not available. Besides, these 7.5ips tracks are very close to the master tape anyway.Some of these are quite excellent.As for metadata, there is currently no way to maintain it and get ... | |
| Jitter Of New Mac Mini Optical Line Out Improved? I doubt if they are putting low-jitter clocks in new computers. Its that the power supplies are lower noise with better voltage regulation.I use a 2009 Mini with an external Hynes power supply. Killer good. Better than ANY newer Mini.Steve N.Empir... |