cerrot
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| Asynchronous USB DAC and USB cable quality I bet you a dollar you will hear a very nice improvement. | |
| A nice PC upgrade I would agree, Al. I think the chipset and the bandwith on any applicable busses (I don't think Intel uses a frontside bus any longer) (and USB bus, if one was unfortunate enough to use it) and implementation of everything else are more critical, ... | |
| cd-r music for blanks I use the MoFi's 24 Kt Gold Ultra Disc in my Alesis Masterlink. I wouldn't use anything else. Why? | |
| A nice PC upgrade I believe you need as powerful a computer as possible (set up properly, isolated, keep away from USB) for computer audio. Kind of like big powerful amps. They do make small scale music sound btter, even though you dont think you need the power. In... | |
| A nice PC upgrade If you can get our head out of your butt, you are welcomed to come over and actually hear it yourself. | |
| Airplane trip with turntable... You left that out. I could have hold you to never fly AA. Or Delta. | |
| How loud is loud? The 'loudness' most people hear is their system (or rooms) distorting. | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Very cool, Norm. Sounds like a fun project. I actually spoke with the engineer at acpian as I was concerned with voltage drops if I took the PS outside of the puter and introduced an umbilical. Power supply is definitely one of the keys. I also fo... | |
| USB veresus FIREWIRE? Guys, FireWire is the standard. We use USB for mice and printers. | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Norm, I'm liking the Acopian power supply's. How many Acopian units do you foresee having to use in the PC (or have you built umbilacles?)? any direction (or experience) there would be appreciated. | |
| A nice PC upgrade My PC was previously under the desk in the office, on an oak wood board with 8 symposium fat pads under it. Replaced the oak board and symposium with the mapleshade system. There is definitely something to it. Computers are definitely the noisest ... | |
| A nice PC upgrade It's a custom gateway, intel quad core, 16 gigs ram. PCI sound card and three internal 10,000 rpm drives. 10 meter apogee spdif cable ifrom pc (in next room) and into esoteric G25u clock/upsampler and into esoteric k03sacdplayer for dac. Jrivrr19 ... | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server I added a maple shades 4" platform with the isopads and brass footers under my PC and it actually gave me more air, and allowed me listen deeper into the soundstage. Shortly thereafer, I added a UPS between the power conditioner and computer (APC ... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 I agree on the overloading. If its louder musical peaks, its a higher output voltage at those peaks and its just about exceeding somethings limit. | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Take a peak at Jplaya JCAT. Its a PCI USB 3.0 soundcard thats not crippled by the mobo. |