davide256
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| Most Beneficial Cable Upgrade I would volunteer the following principles(a) all engineering is a compromise ( I can do this for $10K but with $20K more I could reduce distortion another 0.001%)(b) specs only measure the state of our knowledge, not what we are capable of hearin... | |
| Best Windows based player for output to USB Dac Bob, I have both Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 Home Premium and have tested both with 64 bit. I much prefer Windows 7 for transparency. I also use both Foobar2000 and J River with kernel streaming. With an untweaked machine I found Foobar20... | |
| Halide Bridge vs hiFace Evo vs Sonicweld 192 sakahara, I'm not a MAC guy but I'd like to share my experience with you in building a PC music server. Over the last 4 months I've played around with multiple hardware configurations and a few basic rules have emerged1) processing power is king2)... | |
| USB reclocker pecking order? 48khz is the upper limit of the DAC I have. Will eventually replace it with a 192khz DAC for PC audio but I don't want a DAC choice limited by its USB capabilities, when a reclocker could widen my options. Plus SACD can't be digitally output to a ... | |
| Magnum Dynalab 308 drive Magnepan 1.7 or 3.6? I drive MG 1.7s with a Musical Concepts modded Hafler DH-200 in a room thats about 25x 24... 100 watts per channel into 8 ohms. About the only thing that taxes that amount of power so far is the Telarc SACD of the 1812 overture with cannons. | |
| Gremlins Emerge with Switch to Windows 7 since this is a laptop its likely that you are only willing to go so far, i.e. you have to strike a compromise between a dedicated server and a multitasking machine. The biggest degradation to audio transparency is (a) the audio hardware limitatio... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? unless you use kernel streaming you will get a lifeless experience playing music back. I don't find ASIO or WASAPI acceptable for audiophile level of playback. | |
| Power conditioning for computer audio Barking up the wrong tree, digital out from your MAC doesn't care about internal noise. Your MAC would be malfunctioning if 1's and 0's weren't being read correctly inside the case.But your external D/A and analog equipment does care about how cle... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? kernel streaming bypasses the windows kernel. Foobar 2000 supports it. Windows media player, Media monkey and most other players get stepped on by legacy Windows manipulation of the audio stream with no options to bypass using kernel streaming. iT... | |
| Happy with USB DAC? Some rambling included.. if you don't have a great DAC or a $1000+ budget, buy an HRT Music Streamer. If you do, buy a Hi face Evo or like converter to feed your good DAC with low jitter digital inputComputer sounds cards are a waste of time.Use Foobar2000 with the kernel... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? the Bryston is an excellent DAC, I've auditioned it... the problem is computer technology. I have several PC's and have done the same PC vs CD player comparison over SPDIF into a DAC. The CD player always wins hands down. Where the game changes is... | |
| Tweaking the Magnepan 1.7s I have had my pair of 1.7's since about April. Owned MG1B's and MGIIIA's for a long time before, listened and liked the MG1.6's but not enough to pull out my wallet for the difference. The 1.7's have that critical quality for bass realism, weight ... |