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| Which DAC or Sound Card The throughput on USB 1.1 has a 12 Mbps pass through; 2.0 is 480 Mbps. BIG difference. I believe you can install a USB 2.0 card and get the higher throughout (limited by CPU). | |
| Best iPods for AUDIOphiles I'm not an iPOD kind of guy, but if I were, I'd have my Sennheiser 650's and one of those small portable headphone amps hooked up to it. I think it's like hi-fi. The iPOD is the source. You need good speakers as well. | |
| Which DAC or Sound Card You may want to look into a firewire to spdif converter so that you aren't limited to dacs which only have usb input. I just picked up an M Audio Firewire Solo, which I have connected to a Musical Fidelity XDAC V3 and it sounds pretty sweet. I hav... | |
| God this is overkill I upgraded my power cord on my PC to a Sunyata, plugged into a line conditioner, of course. I'm trying to not order the symposium platform for under the PC; already have fat padz under the speakers.Nope. I'm not laughing. | |
| Computer output to DAC, which route? If you really want to hear PC Audio at it's best, go firewire. I just went to a firewire to spdif converter (M Audio Firewire Solo) and just couldn't believe how good it sounds. There's just no way the power supply in a PC can provide stable, clea... | |
| has anyone tried ultrabit platinum on their cds George,Good luck with your new product.I should be trying some soon. | |
| suggest valve amplifier for Living Voice speakers I have heard a Shindo preamp and power amp make a pair of Living Voice speakers dance. One of the best sounds I have ever heard. | |
| speaker cable recommendation for Innersound Kaya I have the Eros Mk II with The Innersound amp, crossover/bass amp and preamp. I upgraded Rogers cables to Tara Labs RSC Air ones (balanced, from preamp to crossover) and Tara Labs The One (balanced, from crossover to amp), and speaker wire is Tara... | |
| Blue-ray player with good 2ch sound? My Pioneer Elite BDP 95FD looks spectacular in 1080P (into Elite Kuros 60" Plasma) and sounds awesome as well with the new HD sound codecs but if your question is as respects two channel, I have only played standard redbook cd through the stereo o... | |
| CDP Isolation? I tried both the Walker Audio Valid points and the Finite Element Cerapucs on My Esoteric X03-SE. Both made a nice improvement. I thought the Cerapucs gave an imporved soundstage, bass and low level detail over the Valid Points but my comparison m... | |
| DAC as an upgrade It really can be. If you haven't heard the new audio codecs on Blu Ray (or HD DVD), it's simply remarkable (True HD Master Audio, etc). I never realized dolby digital was compressed until we upgraded to Blu Ray. I hope for some nice Blu ray conver... | |
| DAC as an upgrade Mapman,Absolutely, 1000% agreed. Personally, I think the digital medium is crap. I fought CD's for years. Back in the 80's, I was kind of insulted when I started seeing CD's for sale in my local record shop. I thought that they should be sold in a... | |
| DAC as an upgrade I read that same article. I think it was Scholtz (has his own studio and that where the 1st Boston album was recorded-think it was in his house). (and I do agree with that).A pyhsical defieciency in the disc is absolutely an issue, but I don't thi... | |
| DAC as an upgrade I would go with a Benchmark Dac 1 ($1,000 - $1,300 with or without usb input), of Bel Canto Dac3 if you can swing $2,500.As for the digital processor issue, I'm a purist at heart. If CD is recorded with sibilance, etc., my system will reveal it an... | |
| How would you improve the sound of Squeezebox? Thanks for the input. I am tempted. If I do it, I'll probably never listen to my Esoteric. |