kenn39
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| High End User Interface for PC Audio I use a lowly M-Audio Transit and yes, Toslink. Happy so far. | |
| High End User Interface for PC Audio Slothman,One more scenario to your question: SRC upsampling in Foobar to an upsampling DAC. I use SRC upsampling to 96k and Benchmark DAC1 upsmapling to something like 110k.This is conceptually hard to accept. But once I tried it, I became addicte... | |
| High End User Interface for PC Audio To be fair, Off Ramp Turbo is state of the art. Pairing it with a good DAC, it should be as good as anything else. | |
| High End User Interface for PC Audio If you want to pursue software upsampling and other DSPs, go with a USB to SPDIF converter or a DAC with built-in USB input.Otherwise, you can save yourself a lot of trouble to go with Squeezebox or Soundbridge (avoid M1001) and use their digital ... | |
| Which way to go? Airport Express or USB interface Before going with Airport Express, please check out Squeezebox and Soundbridge first. I bet you'd be a lot happier with either. Follow the link for a review of the latest Squeezebox.http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1205/slimdevices_... | |
| Hard Drive based system Surely you can't wait to hear it but the burning-in is for real. So wait one hundred hours anyway :)Please post your impression after 300 hours. I can't wait. | |
| Hard Drive based system Interesting dilemma.TRL's Sony mod is quite amazing for the price. My experience is with TRL/Sony 595. I assume your model will sound even better. On sonics alone, it will provide much bigger bang for the buck than a music server system for you, s... | |
| Hard Drive based system I mentioned two USB DACs in the previous post. Some people like the Apogee mini DAC better than the popular Benchmark DAC1 which I use and surely recommend.I noticed that you mentioned Sony player in another thread. If you get it modded by TRL, it... | |
| Hard Drive based system Audioengr can probably tell you whether it is okay to go with Transit (optical out only) as a starter unit or that you have to use one of his mods to obtain acceptable quality.Have you decided on the DAC? If you end up with a DAC with USB input (e... | |
| Hard Drive based system I can't quite follow Dr. Greenman's reasoning.Basically, if the DAC reclocks, the clock in the DAC takes over. If the DAC does not reclock, it takes the timing info from the digital input. This aspect has nothing to do with whether the input is ha... | |
| Center to match Energy Veritas 2.3i's? I guess what you really want to know is how bad it would be to go without the 2" driver.I use 2.1 and 2.2i, in two separate systems. Like 2.0, 2.1 does not have the 2" driver.The sonic signature is basically the same with 2.1 and 2.2i. 2.2i differ... | |
| Center to match Energy Veritas 2.3i's? If the space and the amp allow, put the 2.2's on either side of the TV and feed them with the same center channel signal as Elevick suggested.Energy is pretty proud of that sound convergence module. My guess is that it would make the center speake... | |
| Best low priced transport Find a cheap CD/DVD player that is known to have bit perfect digital output, then add a Monarchy DIP 24/96 or DIP Upsampler. | |
| Ipod mini speakers If you are not limited to docking station, Swans M200 speakers are a real treat.http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1101/swanm200.htmhttp://www.theaudioinsider.com/cgi-bin/theaudioinsider/Multimedia.html?id=yMVCHHqI | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac I was afraid of the word "iTunes". On a WinPC, Foobar2000 gives better sound than iTunes in my opinion.Again, I don't know much about the Macs. To be safe, you may want to find out how to get bit-perfect digital stream from a Mac before proceeding... |