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| recommendation to upgrade source K330 - You will wait until the cows come home. Async USB interfaces are only as good as the designs, just like anything else. Some are worse than other interfaces, but the best ones leave even the best CD transports in the dust.Metrum Octave or Au... | |
| recommendation to upgrade source A good start on a decent DAC is either the Metrum Octave, Audio GD or Wyred 4 Sound DAC2.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| EMI w/ computer, peri-HD and DAC so close 2 amps Its usually not EMI, its ground-loop common-mode noise. The thing to do if you are using USB is to power the computer and the USB interface (USB converter or DAC) from the same AC outlet. If you also have a CD transport connected, the power for th... | |
| recommendation to upgrade source Why not just add a good reclocker like the Synchro-Mesh to your SB3? The problem is just jitter and can be addressed.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| PSAudio in trouble? Stereo5 - Drive that W4S DAC2 with a low-jitter I2S source and it will leave your transport in the dust. Big difference. Truly world-class.you can get the cable at a good price at partsconnexion.comSteve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Top CD transports vs USB converter shootout Elberoth - if the USB converter outputs I2S, then it is not susceptible to S/PDIF conversions. Not that I feel these conversions are that significant. With some gear, the conversions might be.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| USB DAC with conventional transport ??? This is round-about way to get the signal reclocked. Its not available as far as I know.There are two better and cheaper scenerios:1) use the clock in the transport and transmit I2S to the DAC. You can do this for instance with PWT to W4S DAC2.2) ... | |
| upgradeable dacs ZD542 - There are some excellent examples at all price points. Here are a few:Chord QuteAMR DP777Combination of Off-Ramp 5 feeding Wyred 4 Sound DAC2 with I2SOverdrive SETeac UD501Mytek Stereo192Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Top CD transports vs USB converter shootout Granny - my pleasure. I get a lot of help from my customers too on things that I just dont have time for.Make sure that you also do the tweaks on the mini that I recommend. Available on iTunes ibooks as "Audio Optimization" guides.Steve N.Empirica... | |
| Top CD transports vs USB converter shootout Adam - Nice job on the review. There was one mistake. You said the BAD BNC output was a good one. Its actually a 50 ohm BNC, not 75. There are actually 75 ohms versions that they could have used. I use several.One thing to keep in mind with all pr... | |
| upgradeable dacs "What formats are we talking about here? If its just redbook, I'm not sure how much more designers are going to get out of it. Its a pretty mature format."You would be surprised. I personally used to upsample all 44.1 tracks to 24/96 because the D... | |
| upgradeable dacs Empirical Audio Overdrive SE can be upgraded: USB interface, Master Clock for USB interface, Coupling Capacitors, separate power supply chassis and 13 internal regulators. It has already seen all of these upgraded over the last 2-3 years. Since it... | |
| Pandora One on Home Audio System Ill second the Pure i20. Also check out the Sonos ZP90 ($500) at sonos.com.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Vinyl to Digital: Software or USB Converter? Gordon - you are correct. I was thinking of the Ayre A/D converter. Good reviews. | |
| CD player to be use as a transport advice? Get a used BDP-93 and add the Vanity 93 module:http://audiopraise.com/vanity93/overview.phpThis will be hard to beat for less than $15K. This is more important than the DAC.Steve N.Empirical Audio |