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| reclocking Based on the shootouts the best converters are:1) Off- Ramp 52) Diverter HR3) Berkeley Audio Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Downloading & Converting Music MP3 eliminates some data, so it cannot be recovered to make a "clean" .wav file. I recommend ripping CDs with dbpoweramp on PC or XLD on Mac to .wav format and ALWAYS use Accurate Rip to verify it (option on dbpoweramp).Some popular download sites... | |
| reclocking Alfe - you may need a better converter to beat the USB interface in that DAC. They do exist.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Cart Before the Horse: Signal Path Help Please Touch is probably the best stock source without reclocking, although it improves some with reclocking. The difference with Mac Mini is you can have hi-res, although to achieve similar results as Touch you must buy a good player software and do som... | |
| reclocking Alfe - you may think that the heart of the digital system is the DAC, but it isn't. It IS the interface that contains the master clock. That can be a built-in USB interface, external USB interface or a device and reclocker.The problem is that most... | |
| reclocking Cerrot - Almarg is correct. Packetization has no bearing on the jitter in networked or USB systems. Both are buffered and master clock established in the device interface.The older Adaptive technology relied on the computer clock, so it was defici... | |
| Cart Before the Horse: Signal Path Help Please Reclocking in the DAC is a myth. None of them do a good job of it. I've tested and modded dozens of DACs. The source device MUST have low jitter. | |
| Cart Before the Horse: Signal Path Help Please If your files are only 44.1 FLAC then the obvious solution is Sonos ZP-90 using Ethernet or WiFi. Sonos.com Easy to use. People love it. The problem is that the internal DAC is junk and the jitter from it is high. The good news is that this output... | |
| reclocking Alfe - that is a shame. I dont believe that most mastering studios realize how important jitter is in the A/D. It is expensive to get low jitter in a A/D and the other devices used, like preamps are critical as well. Most studios dont spend enough... | |
| reclocking Alfe - you can see some Async USB and reclocker jitter plots here:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=115008.0Any manufacturer that claims their device (not the clock) delivers 10psec of jitter on S/PDIF are not living on this planet.Steve ... | |
| reclocking Steve...where does jitter occur? Jitter starts at the master clock in the transport or async USB interface. It then just gets worse as it passes through buffers, translators and cables. The DAC receiver may add more or reduce it a bit. The D/A chi... | |
| reclocking First, USB interfaces vary in their jitter. Some are better than others. You should not need a reclocker with a good async USB converter.Second, no DAC can eliminate jitter. In fact most DACs that reclock with upsampling can actually add jitter co... | |
| Dac Questions from an Analogue guy : The external hard drive is usually not a problem providing that you interface it with external SATA or Firewire and not USB. If you are doing USB streaming audio then this should be the only USB device.Steve N. | |
| Best Way to Play Flac Files The biggest problem is the jitter from the Sonos. Reclocker will solve this. Very popular even though it only supports 44.1.The best way to listen to FLAC is to convert it to .wav and hit play. Combining Jplay with Foobar or Jriver is probably the... | |
| What should I upgrade? If you have an iPod or iPhone, get a Pure i20 digital dock and drive a bottlehead SEX2.1 tube amp to your headphones. $89 for the Pure and $450 for the tube headamp. This is the ONLY way to listen to headphones. Analog from the Pure i20 to the hea... |