heymikey
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| Oppo BDP-83 optical out for 2ch stereo from blu-r? My toslink cable is a Wireworld Supernova 6 glass toslink, it goes into the toslink input of a Wadia 860x cdp (which in this case is serving as a digital "pass through") and then out via Kimber Select 2120 xlr digital coax to a Weiss Dac2 (the Wei... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Just ordered the Weiss Dac2 myself, but will be running it through a preamp(Joule Electra LA-150 MkII). | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... TBG, let us know how it goes with the Minerva, sounds like a good combo. | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Blindjim, you are assuming that Amarra only works with asynchronous dacs or the Weiss firewire dac, I believe you are mistaken. But yes, it is Apple OS software.BTW, thanks to all, a lot of good info here in this thread on implementing computer ba... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Antipodes_Audio, thanks for your thoughts regarding mac/Amarra implementation. I am also using an Empirical Audio Offramp 3, with a Locus Design Axis usb cable from my mac mini. The mac mini is upgradeable to 4gb of RAM (it will only utilize 3.5gb... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Mrjstark, you're welcome. Here's the Mini info page if you haven't seen it already:http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/amarra_mini.htmlMine will be here next week too. | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... The mini version is supposed to be identical in sound quality as the full version. Note that it will only support sample rates up to 24-bit/96kHz as opposed to the full hi-rez formats that the full version is capable of. But for those with dacs li... | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... I just ordered the Amarra mini, I'll have to check it out.It's currently 10% off as a RMAF discount, don't know how long that will last. | |
| Amarra for iTunes at RMAF... Yes they do offer a demo/trial version:http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/index.html | |
| empirical audio or lynx aes 16 sound card Forgot to mention, I runs an S-video cable from my mac mini (using a DVI-to-video adapter) to my TV, and can use the tv as monitor for the mac mini. So, no unsightly monitor on the stereo rack. | |
| empirical audio or lynx aes 16 sound card 15 feet is supposed to be the limit for usb cables, unless you get something like an Opticis optical usb cable. I had the same issue, went with the Opticis for a while, but it had trouble with 24 bit data streams. I now have a mac mini on my stere... | |
| Weiss Dac2/Minerva? Thanks for sharing your impressions of the Minerva! | |
| Weiss Dac2/Minerva? Indianears, interesting, what sort of files were you running through iTunes? Uncompressed? | |
| Weiss Dac2/Minerva? PNCD, can you give us a sound quality comparison of the EMM dac (non SACD) and the Weiss? | |
| Weiss Dac2/Minerva? Drubin and Teddy_Bear, I still haven't purchased a new dac yet. Thanks very much for the comparison of the Berkeley and the Weiss. And Drubin, your question really points to a major deciding factor between the two: firewire vs usb to spdif convert... |