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| USB to DAC questions The fun starts after you hook it all up - I know you crave certainty but there is a certain alchemy to bringing together a bunch of components into a great sounding system that makes you nod your head and tap your feet.Don't even try to judge it u... | |
| USB to DAC questions Trying to record uncompressed video is a big drive problem and USB - while cheap and ubiquitous - is not fast enough to support it. There is nothing more I/O intensive then video.Not to razz your buddy but a quick Google suggests that the camera i... | |
| USB to DAC questions First USB is ubiquitous. Meaning that it is friggin everywhere on everything. Billions of USB ports and devices out there. Obviously implementation is a concern but at the end of the day it either works or it doesn't work. When you start to think ... | |
| 6SN7 Tung Sol Reissue Mullard 12AX7 any comments? Hi - I have a set of the reissue KT-88s and they are a real nice tube. Haven't bothered looking beyond them. No durability issues after 4 months of fairly heavy use.These guys went to a lot of trouble to sweat the cosmetics. I kind of think they a... | |
| USB to DAC questions I wouldn't take one bad (or good) review on anything too seriously. As noted I have no first hand experience with Nixon's gear - but I can tell you for sure that when it comes up for sale, it flies off.You might check headfi dot com and the Audio ... | |
| USB to DAC questions USB standard is 15ft. (Get the Belkin gold plated - nice cable) From there you can add USB multipliers or better yet add a Opticis USB fiber optic cable and go as far as you want - but the rig will cost you about $150 with an improved battery pack... | |
| USB to DAC questions Hi - hard core Mac guy here. Yes in theory the laptop and the mega tower will sound the same since the point of the exercise is to get the data off of the drive so it can be "reconstituted" into music away from the PC.If you have a built in USB po... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards TBG - wish I could find what you are looking at - send me a link if you like. This is obviously an add in card that he makes or mods. Keep in mind that Mac is and has been the computer of choice in recording studios for many, many years. There is ... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards Hi - glad to be of help.Not sure what John is doing, didn't see anything obvious on the Exemplar website. Just to be clear, AES/EBU is a pro (balanced using XLRs) signal format like SPDIF. It is a long established high end way to go - but requires... | |
| Robert & Alison-Raising Sand Sorry Jaybo, hate to disagree - No comparison to the Harris/Knopfler effort. on All The Roadrunning which is phenomenal. If you are hoping for shades of Zeppelin fuhgeddaboutitIt's not that its bad or poorly done, but most folks can safely skip th... | |
| jitter reduction? One of the principle benefits of using a computer transport is that virtually all of the jitter associated with a traditional transport is eliminated. The other main problem area is associated with the SPDIF implementation.Yes, you can buy various... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards Gonna be better with a Mac - no doubt about it. You will be up and running in minutes - search this site and Audio Asylum's PC Forum. Regardless of which platform you choose, you will have better sound quality (less jitter and distortion) then all... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards Yep -All those are, are external drives. If you are using a tower, I strongly recommend you add a PCI SATA card, especially if you are going with that kind of storage. Simply much faster and more robust then Firewire or USB.Good question about the... | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards best to have everything off except for "error correction on" on the Advanced/Importing page | |
| Mac Laptop & Sound Cards Hi RB -I figured you must have more going on then just the CDs - I have 1,500+ in Apple Lossless on one 400Gb and one back-up.Do you have your LPs ripped as well? How big is a file? I am not a vinyl guy (have to practice self control somewhere) so... |