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| Streaming: WiFi or wired?? Wired is twice as fast as wireless. That should be the deciding factor.No, it isn’t. What you need for typical CD is 1.4Mbit/s while WiFi delivers 54Mbit/s. Streaming services most of the time use lossy compression so it will never sound as good a... | |
| Streaming: WiFi or wired?? Also, with higher frequencies (at 5G) , your signal degrades quicker so distance becomes more of an issue. This is laws of physics and you just have to live with it.This and the fact that higher frequencies penetrate walls poorly prevent interfer... | |
| USB cables and Galvanic Isolation Yes, electrical noise can enter the DAC but is that really relevant if the DAC has a measure of -120 SINAD from the analog output?Even if this -120dB SINAD was specified for the USB input signal I'm pretty sure they did not use for this specificat... | |
| USB cables and Galvanic Isolation USB of newer DACs is asynchronous, meaning incoming data clock and D/A conversion clock are independent. Sound cannot be affected by the timing of the data, as it is with S/Pdif, but still can be affected by injected electrical noise (that affec... | |
| Damn, what a joy to have good College FM stations. Try WUCF (Jazz & More) - broadcasted from University of Central Florida.https://www.wucf.org/ | |
| Bob Dylan - new album just out on Tidal - Rough and Rowdy Ways I like it a lot. Wonderful, well recorded album. I always admired Dylan's poetry and compositions, but singing was not his forte. Surprisingly his singing is really good. Songs, on slow side, are very melodic while the band and musical arrange... | |
| XLR Interconnects @yyzsantabarbara My Benchmark AHB2 power amp also supports professional level inputs. It allow choice of 3 gains 8.2dBu, 14,2dBu and 22dBu. The idea behind high level (22dBu) is to reduce gain of power amp. It provides twofold benefit - shifts gai... | |
| Can I Rid Myself Of iTunes? @goofyfoot When you rip again rip only what you intend to listen to at the moment. Once XLD places first track in Itunes you can start listening. Eventually you will get all your CDs that way and it won't be a big chore. | |
| Can I Rid Myself Of iTunes? I'm using XLD (free) on my MacMini for ripping. I set output to ALAC, but you can pick any format. I set output to Itunes directory and it creates automatically subdirectories with music. I also set number of attempts to 200 to be sure I will ge... | |
| DAC volume controls @yyzsantabarbara DAC3 HGC have two gain controls (hence "Hybrid Gain Control") - a digital encoder for digital signals and analog pot for analog inputs, mounted on the same shaft. AFAIK HPA4 has encoder as well, but it controls bunch of relays... | |
| DAC volume controls I have Benchmark DAC3 to Benchmark AHB2 power amp. It sounds wonderful and has digital volume control for digital signals. Previously I had Benchmark DAC1, that had analog volume control. DAC3 sounds way better, but it is most likely because of... | |
| 1st SACD Purchase For audio playback, I can use XLR or optical from the 901 to the 2600. I am doing some A-B testing to determine which DAC is better for CD playback, the 901 or 2600.MVP901 will output optical , but most likely it will be CD layer only. Your A-B ... | |
| Sub $1k Power Conditioners? Any Assistance Appreciated... I have Furman Elite-20 PFi. I bought it used for $650 many years ago. It has good filtering and very tight non-sacrificial over/undervoltage protection. PF in the name stands for power factor correction. Typical gear draws current from mains i... | |
| How do you power EU items? and how to ship an item to USA? talkskiwon, I would get the rest of the gear first. There are basically two camps - accurate presentation camp and pleasant coloration camp (warm sound etc). I belong to the first camp with Benchmark DAC3 HGC and Benchmark AHB2 power amp. Benc... | |
| How do you power EU items? and how to ship an item to USA? talkskiwon, there are two types of USB transmission to DAC - synchronous and asynchronous. The first one relies on computer to create timing while asynchronous USB sends data in packets and DAC recreates timing with its own clock. Most of the ne... |