drubin
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| First Steps into Computer Audio These comments from Charles Hansen of Ayre are a pretty strong refutation of the Firewire point of view. | |
| the SHM CD Experience They seem obscenely expensive. Where are you buying them? | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Generally speaking, Macs don't have sound cards that can be upgraded. You can run an external sound card, such as a Lynx, in a Mac desktop. There is no way to put one into a Mac laptop or Mini, although I believe there are some external solutions.... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? The Toslink out from the Mac Mini has very poor jitter performance. It would be worth comparing that to USB from the Mac Mini directly to the Bel Canto DAC3, which has a USB input. An inexpensive USB to SPDIF converter, such as the HagUsb, may or ... | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio Yes, the iRoc is a great deal used. It was about $1500 new.And Jax2, thanks for the invitation. I will take you up on it if the opportunity presents. | |
| Sources for uncompressed downloads I don't think it's uncompressed you want, it's lossless compressed files. As opposed to MP3. | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio All I said is that cheap USB sucks, but obviously mileage varies. The iRoc is not cheap USB. And I may need to back off my earlier comments a bit after last night, when I was very impressed with the USB input on the Bryston DAC. | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Also, 24/192 is possible via USB 2.0. I don't believe anyone is doing it yet, but Empirical Audio is planning to. Will require two clocks. | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac I think there's some bad info above. For example, the RR HRx recordings are 24/176 and they can be fed with a single AES/EBU cable into a DAC such as the Berkeley.Also, iTunes does support 24-bit word length. | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio I hear what you are saying, but my experience has been disappointing and I've tried quite a few things. I'd love to hear your "Modwright Transporter I use (via wireless, NOT usb) without any doubt at all exceeds any transport I've used." I've trie... | |
| First Steps into Computer Audio I've been studying computer audio intensively for several months and have found nothing to substantiate Cerrot's claims. Respectfully, I think you are wrong, buddy.However, inexpensive USB audio sucks, in my experience. If you have a good system, ... | |
| Are Harbeth S HL5's As Good As Reviewers Claim? Very warm. Not transparent to what comes before them in the chain. Not highly resolving. Tweeter is fair, not great. Dynamics not great. Can be boomy in some rooms/systems. Delicious on vocals and acoustic instruments. You may love them or ask, WTF? | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Why would you need anything above 176? | |
| Simaudio's new power supply for LP 5.3 With the new power supply, the LP5.3 becomes a $2750 phono stage. I own one (without the power supply) and think it's a definite winner at $1500, but wonder if it remains competitive at close to $3K. | |
| Download and "ripping" questions with a Mac. Photon46 -- can you clarify your comment "depending on whether you are using a hard drive source or a cd source?" Did AIFF and ALAC sound inferior to WAV off the hard disk and also when you burned CDs from those files? |