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| What Does A USB to SPDIF Converter Allow? If you already have a good quality DAC (or CDP with DAC inputs) but eithera. the DAC didn't have a USB input orb. the USB input was an older (synchronous) system or only ran up to 48kHz or 96kHza good USB-SPDIF interface will allow you to continue... | |
| WaveLink HS 24/192 vs Bel Canto 24/96 USB to SPDIF There is only one problem I found with the synchromesh.I believe it only does 16/44 or 24/96. You have to specify it when you order. You can't have both in the same box. I understand it was done to provide the best performance but if you have a mi... | |
| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high I do agree that the gain on the Ref5/5SE is very high. And yes it is a challenge pairing with high gain amps and speakers that are efficientI tested my Plinius SA-Reference with my Thiel CS3.7s in my room and while the Plinius was able to drive th... | |
| WaveLink HS 24/192 vs Bel Canto 24/96 USB to SPDIF I have the old Bel Canto Light Link 24/96.It is a synchronous USB connection. IMHO these are easily supplanted by a good asynchronous USB connection.I have had great results with the WaveLink HS but if there is one challenge I find, it is the BNC ... | |
| CD PLAYER It might help to understand what you feel is deficient in this setup. I thought the XDS1 was extremely resolving and the most neutral DAC I had. It does help pairing it with a tube preamp like an Audio Research Reference 5/5SE that I am using now.... | |
| cd player 4 of my friends who had the XDS1 upgraded to the new 2 box TSDX/DAC2X combo. It is supposed to be a big upgrade separating the power supply between the DAC and transport. | |
| Playback Designs Hi DctomI didn't have a chance to do an A:B immediately before and after the upgrade but I thought there was an improvement in separation/layers and depth on the same CD I was playing a day before the upgrade. I emailed Jon and am copying the repl... | |
| Pure Music...Really Bad so far... A+ has an odd bug where it cues up the wrong song that doesn't tally with what iTunes was going to play in integration mode. It was still appearing in 1.4.1 but haven't tested 1.4.2 yet | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question I think the word you are looking for is lossless compression.I do find a slight difference between AIFF and WAV but both IMHO are better than FLAC/ALAC. ps AIFF has the option of having big or little endian so it can be in the same order as WAV. B... | |
| Pure Music...Really Bad so far... Not sure what the rest of the system is but PM apparently has problems with iTunes 11. Not sure if you are using the latest beta | |
| SACD-R But that's cos the SACD is being converted to 88.2kHz PCM using the CDSA | |
| SACD-R If you don't intend to burn the SACD-R and only intend to play the 2 channel layer, all you need is a DAC that can process DSD over USB, a Mac Mini with Audirvana Plus 1.4 and voila. Playback of the ISO on your computer.You can also do the same on... | |
| Playback Designs There's a new firmware out for the 5 series. Anyone know what's changed? | |
| Is there any real alternative to Oppo?? Douglas, the CA 751 is using the same base as the Oppo 93 but swaps out the ESS/Cirrus DAC for their own Wolfson DAC stage. | |
| What are the differences between XRCDs? SHM uses the original master, only the material used is different/better.So my Eagles Hell Freezes Over US press < SHM versionK2/XRCD involve remastering so IMHO the remastering accounts for why K2/XRCDs sounds better than the standard master (... |