blackstonejd
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| Using External Word Clock with Transporter? He is right there does seem to be some kind of an issue. I am investigating.The designer/founder of Slimdevices told me, however, that the Transporter was designed to be slaved in this manner and that it is preferable to do so.My thread at the Sli... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips No problem. Aiff is a bit more obscure than .wav but basically they are identical. Aiff is an apple standard but unlike apple lossless, aiff is almost universally supported. I use it because aiff has better metadata tagging functionality. | |
| USB DAC or USB to SPDIF conv. + non USB DAC? The digital output from any Soundblaster card is abysmal. Asynchronous USB is fast becoming the new standard. | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? I have had the privilege of buying my equipment from Audio Consultants in Evanston, Illinois (Chicago area)for the past 16 years and my father has shopped with them since the 1970s.I happen to be very diligent when it comes to researching consumer... | |
| What to see at CES? I am not going to the show myself but if I was I would be looking for the following:1. PS Audio's Perfect Wave Transport (USB)2. Ayre's new USB DAC3. dCS Puccini U-Clock4. Pioneer's 10th Generation Kuro Displays | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Yes, exactly. It has to do with alignment of the drive head. There is absolutely nothing I have found that suggests this has anything to do with sound quality. The "correct" value for offset depends on your drive.I'm not really sure what it does o... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Dtc, I think your hunch about the EAC's offset correction (in my case it was set to +6) throwing Foobar off was correct. If you go into the EAC folder and temporarily disable the Accurate Rip function by changing the filename of acurraterip.dll to... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Here is the thing. When I rip the same track twice using iTunes w/ error correction and then use Foobar to compare the two .wavs, it typically finds NO differences. In one case it found a difference of 24 samples which obviously is negligable. The... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Dtc, thanks so much for your input here.Here is the problem. I did the EAC comparison on the tracks below but I got the same sort of results you did. It did not really turn up anything suspicious and this was true comparing EAC paranoid mode track... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips Drubin, first, I DID say what the "right" drive is. It is a drive that 1) does not cache audio, 2) uses c2 error correction and 3) uses "accurate stream". Mine happens to be a SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B. Those three fea... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips I should also mention that when you configure EAC as I described above, you want to use the mp3 button or "compressed" option to trigger your rips because that is what tells EAC to use the external encoder. If you clicked uncompressed, EAC would s... | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips DTC I'm not sure how I would go about looking bit by bit.Also, sorry I meant to say the The Squeezebox III serves the files to the DAC, not DSC. Typo. | |
| Considerable Improvement with EAC Rips To answer all of the above:I certainly do not use lossy compression. That would be a violation of every audiophile instinct (neuroses) in my body! I use uncompressed .aiff, which as a side note, I believe is identical to .wav in sound quality. I u... | |
| Newbie Setup Question - Digital Mapman I think the way what you said about drivers is correct. I was reading something the other day about how the drivers built into Vista/XP are insufficient in some way. I think some of these devices coming out must inject a custom driver into ... | |
| Newbie Setup Question - Digital I suspect differences in USB cables is purely force of suggestion. |