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| Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB? Many (if not most) modern high-end streamers, DACs etc. use the xCORE200 32-bit USB input processor designed by XMOS which has up to a 100 MHz sampling rate on the input stream. So for example if you are imputing a 96kHz stream that equates to a... | |
| Class D Integrated Amplifier Recommendations. We recently completed assembly of the new UcD700 kits from Hypex, which include: Hypex UcD700HG Class D amplifier HxR voltage regulators SMPS1200A700 power supply They work great in our system with Dirac Live and JBL 4349s. We especially enjoy t... | |
| Your sub experience: Easy or hard? We have just published our new white paper on this topic "Subwoofer Integration for Stereo Systems for miniDSP, REW and Dirac Live" Deer Creek Audio is an authorized miniDSP dealer. | |
| Help With A New DAC/Streamer Something to consider with an all in one streamer is Dirac Live. Dirac Live resolves the soundstage with improved clarity and intelligibility with all instruments and vocals. With the room correction aspect you'll experience deeper and tighter ba... | |
| Best streamer/DAC for up to $1500 Something to consider with a budget of $1,500 is the miniDSP SHD, you get superb core audio performance, true active balanced XLRs, and system flexibility. Then with Dirac Live and you have a game changer. Dirac Live resolves the soundstage with ... | |
| Streamer/DAC Something to consider with a new streamer is Dirac Live. Dirac Live resolves the soundstage with improved clarity and intelligibility with all instruments and vocals. With the room correction aspect you'll experience deeper and tighter bass free ... | |
| Wanting to upgrade my streaming sound quality. Something to consider with an all in one streamer is Dirac Live. Dirac Live resolves the soundstage with improved clarity and intelligibility with all instruments and vocals. With the room correction aspect you'll experience deeper and tighter... | |
| Suggestions for a streamer only (I have a great DAC) The miniDSP SHD Studio is a Streaming High Definition digital audio processor that combines: Dirac Live®, full version with perpetual license Roon Ready certified Powerful DSP processor and ultra flexible tuning capability Volumio high-pe... | |
| preamplifier after preamplifier? We suggest keeping the system as simple as possible, with one preamp, our choice is the miniDSP SHD, it would integrate like this: Here is the functional block diagram, this allows for full control over all crossover slopes and frequencies, ch... | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference It doesn't surprise me at all that the $750 Intel NUC sounds close to the $6000 Aurender N200. While it’s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, we had a similar situation recently with a customer who is replacing his Vivaldi Short Stack with... | |
| Weakest digital link: DAC - Streamer - Server? In our experience, there are subtle differences between streaming from services like Tidal, streaming from a NAS or kernel streaming directly from RAM using an application like JRiver along with an ASIO driver, which is this case is optimized for ... | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. Roon interfaced to the miniDSP SHD, which is now Roon Ready certified, provides convenient access to streaming and stored music sources and presents them in a pure digital environment for Dirac Live processing using your choice of DACs. | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment By far the biggest improvement in terms of minimizing room effects, adding resolution and dimensionality comes through completing a proper Dirac Live 3.1.2 project. We also added the Hypex Nc400 Mono Blocks, which replaced our Mark Levinson No. 2... | |
| Do speaker wires have to be the same length for each speaker? The answer to this question is maybe. You do not want too much impedance mismatch between the left and right cables, because that can cause a difference in the frequency response of each of the speakers. So if the cables are both relatively short... | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? We agree with the general consensus that there are minor differences between higher-quality DACs across a fairly extreme price range. In fact, systems with too much complexity sometimes encounter issues that can deteriorate sound quality. We st... |