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| PC Media Players - significant SQ differences? This is a complex question. There are mixers,CODECs and DSP as well as floating-point math in the players. Any of these can have issues or bugs and they usually do. Offset, which is the number of leading nulls before the first bit of music starts ... | |
| Are the XLR outputs of OPPO BDP-105 true balanced? Unless there are signal transformers in there, it is not truly balanced. It is a Solid State emulation of balanced. The only way to get truly balanced is to use transformers.There is one aspect of balanced tht cannot be achieved with SS, and that ... | |
| Good dac to reproduce soprano vocals? Female vocals on particular are masked by high jitter levels. I recently developed a version of my products with S/PDIF output jitter in the 10psec range. Compared to the 50psec that I had been achieving this extremely low jitter delivers much bet... | |
| Oppo BDP-95 Weakest Link If you use BDP-95 for audio, the jitter will be higher than the best transports, or computer audio interfaces. You can fix this by using a reclocker, about $600.The thing to do is get the BDP-93 and add the Vanity 93 module to it. Then you have a ... | |
| Pandora One on Home Audio System I have an iPod system that is killer good:First, get an iPod digital dock - Pure i20Then add Synchro-Mesh reclocker to reduce jitterThen add a good DAC like the Metrum Octave or Hex.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Novice needs Mac Mini and DAC advice "External power supply as well?"Absolutely"Concerning jitter, isn't that the DAC's responsibility to reclock or do you really need the reclocker buffered in between the source and the DAC?"That would be nice in an ideal world. You need some kind o... | |
| Novice needs Mac Mini and DAC advice You have to be willing to do some tweaks and spend some money on the Mac Mini, including SSD, external power supply and Amarra etc..It is a lot simpler to use a Sonos or Squeezebox or even an iPod and Pure i20 and drive a good reclocker like Synch... | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps VHiner - There is an easy explanation for this. Either the driver on the DAC output was weak (AKA op-amp) or the preamp implementation in the DAC sucked. Most DACs have both problems.I have never been to St. Louis. I wish I had time for this. I do... | |
| Higher End USB Cables Audioquest Diamond. | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps "One *can* achieve that last nth degree of micro detail with such a set up. But I've found that something is also also lost. I call it the "soul" of the music."Interesting. Must be an implementation problem in the Bidat. I don't have this problem ... | |
| Jitter Of New Mac Mini Optical Line Out Improved? The new Mini may have lower jitter, but I doubt if it is 10psec from the Toslink interface. Even most good clocks have jitter this low. Add any circuitry or a power supply and it is multiplied by at least 10X, particularly Toslink interfaces. At l... | |
| How Do I Rip a CD with Best results on a MacPro Foster - I use a Teac drive, but Plextor makes them too.To get better than original results re-writing a CD to CDROM, here are the things to do:1) use good media - Mitsui gold audio master2) clean and treat the media prior to burn with a good trea... | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps There is no volume control technology that beats adjusting the D/A reference voltage to adjust the DAC output. This adds no parts to the signal path, adjusts no gain stage and puts no resistor or gain stage in the signal path. It actually increase... | |
| Airport Express To A DAC It will work however it has the highest jitter of any digital source. This can be fixed with an in-line reclocker like the Synchro-Mesh. This will make it equal or better than the best transport.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How Do I Rip a CD with Best results on a MacPro Using an outboard USB CDROM drive with C2 error correction is recommended.Steve N.Empirical Audio |