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| Connecting Windows PC to DAC Dont forget also the Diverter HR and Synergistic Research. These along with Off-Ramp 5 have earned best of shows at RMAF. | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Elberoth - I recentky had the opportunity to do a shootout of several liner and switching supplies powering digital, USB converter, reclocker and DAC. In all cases, the switching supply followed by a fast regulator beat out the linear. I feel now ... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Rrog - seehttp://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/overdrive-dacandhttp://www.empiricalaudio.com/news-and-reviews/overdrive-dachttp://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=108715.0Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Dac Questions from an Analogue guy : Some imortant things to understand about USB and computer audio:1) Just like jitter from a CD transport, jitter from a USB interface is the most important sound quality issue - each USB interface has different jitter levels and therefore different... | |
| Advice Nk - The best transformer on the planet is the Finemet from Japan. I use these in my Final Drive buffer:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=108715.0You can find these for DACs on ebay. They are about $1KNext to these, maybe the Music First.... | |
| Advice A lot better IMO. If you reduced the jitter of the source by using a quality USB converter and a good power supply. Also you could also eliminate a ground-loop by adding a good 1:1 signal transformer between the DAC and the integrated amp.Beyond t... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Scott - I hope it is a good 1.5m glass cable, not a short plastic one.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Slaving is only possible with a tiny set of sources and a tiny set of DACs that output master or word clocks. Thats why. Its also no guarantee of greatness. You are at the mercy of the DAC designer and the clock and clock circuit that he designed.... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Rrog -I dont manufacture or sell preamps.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| MP3 vs Hi Res Kijanki - anyone that listens mosly to headphones owes it to themselves to use tube headamp. Nothing else like it. I am currently building the Bottlehead SEX amp and putting lots of great parts of my own in it. I expect it to crush the Lyr, althou... | |
| MP3 vs Hi Res Kijanki - what headphones and headamp are you using?I have a totally modded out Lyr with Siemens CCA grey-plate tubes and I can hear the difference in .wav and 160kbps MP3. I am using HE-400 headphones.The separation I get is unlike any other head... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? Rrgog - Maybe there was no difference in jitter between the two CD players. There were both probably high in jitter. Also, you were likely using an inexpensive active preamp. This will easily mask any differences there. By inexpensive, I mean less... | |
| MP3 vs Hi Res Depends entirely on the kbps rate of the MP3. If it is 256k or above, it will sond virtually identical to a .wav file except on the most resolving systems on the planet. There are actually several ways to encode an MP3 also, incljuding variable ra... | |
| Apple TV sound quality as a transport The jitter of the source is actually more important than the DAC. I have heard lots of $1K DACs sound amazing with low-jitter sources driving them. Read the last 5 DAC reviews by Steven Stone in TAS. He concludes that when driven from the same low... | |
| How important is the transport when using a DAC? First, all of you need to understand that there is no perfect "reclocking" system in any DAC. They all have drawbacks and imperfections that make the majority of them still sensitive to jitter. Maybe not as much as a DAC from 15 years ago, but sti... |