kijanki
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| streamer for PWD DAC mkII - tired of a computer and complicated connectivity! I use MacMini - Itunes/ALAC - WiFi -Airport Express - Benchmark DAC1 - Power amp. WiFi makes playback program, computer speed, amount of memory etc. irrelevant. I use ALAC since it is format used to send the data over WiFi (one conversion less).... | |
| Going to rip 2000 cds. Which software? Data loss due to scratches up to about 4mm along the track is automatically corrected by Cross-interleaved Reed-Solomon error correcting code. Between 4-8mm player that operates in real time interpolates samples while scratches longer than 8mm re... | |
| Toslink/optical cable recommendations I use http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/gltodiopca.htmlLow price, high quality - 280 strands of glass. | |
| Going to rip 2000 cds. Which software? I second XLD on the Mac (used MAX before). Set highest possible amount of retries - otherwise it will interpolate missing samples. Rip while listening - it won't be a huge chore that way. Make backups (I use SuperDuper). I have two backups an... | |
| The one piece of gear you will never sell french_fries LOL | |
| The one piece of gear you will never sell Hyperion Sound HPS-938 speakers because company doesn’t exist anymore.Acoustic Zen "Satori" Shotgun speaker cables and "Absolute" 0.5m XLR interconnects, because I bought them very cheap. | |
| FLAC vs WAV Computer should decompress files before putting them into memory buffer. Up to this point it is just a data, that can be verified by the checksum. Music starts when timing is added. In case of S/Pdif it is done in computer but in case of asynchron... | |
| Is the word 'Integrated' that hard to spell? Spencer, I'm sure your English is goodder than mine. | |
| Is the word 'Integrated' that hard to spell? ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER by Jerrold H Zar Eye halve a spelling check her, It came with my pea sea. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye kin knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it’s weigh... | |
| FLAC vs WAV Computer decompresses data, places it in the memory and adds timing to create and output S/Pdif (PCM). The only difference, assuming bit perfect conversion, can be jittery S/Pdif timing, that would add noise to music but dynamic range should be th... | |
| Is the word 'Integrated' that hard to spell? I agree, interrogated is not hard to spell :) | |
| streamer for PWD DAC mkII - tired of a computer and complicated connectivity! oblgny, you can rip what you listen at the same time. Eventually all CDs will get ripped with no effort. Technically speaking, rip is better than original. | |
| NEW Discovery: Getting the Oppo DSD Output to a Dac. Yes, but this analog output was obtained by using very simple internal D/A converter (practically a filter) that is completely different than converter in your DAC when you feed it PCM. Sound should be different, that's all. | |
| NEW Discovery: Getting the Oppo DSD Output to a Dac. The point was that sound most likely will be different since SACD D/A converter and PCM D/A converter are very different (SACD is simplier). I'm glad you like PCM version more than the original SACD. | |
| NEW Discovery: Getting the Oppo DSD Output to a Dac. Because it was converted from 1-bit 2.8MHz to 24-bit 88.2kHz PCM. It is "high resolution rate" of PCM obtained by converting SACD and not the rate of SACD itself (1-bit 2.8MHz). Also, amount of information is higher than 16/44.1 but sound will ... |