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| Ripping CD's to SSD? There are two ways to do this but firstly you need to rip your CDs to your computer using DB Poweramp or Exact Audio Copy. Then copy those files to a clean USB stick and stick it into your Aurender. Then go into your Conductor app and select Lib... | |
| Question re: Aurender N20 Server, Qobuz album takes 10-15 seconds to start playing You could open a trial account with Tidal or Spotify and if these show the same problems it's most likely something to do with your internet connection. | |
| Okto DAC 8 Stereo (Shout-out) @milpai Much of the general chatter about DACs is based on the Emperor's New Clothes. Virtually every DAC out there is made as either an ESS 9038 Pro based DAC or a R2R Ladder DAC. There was a very interesting discussion on WBF a little while ba... | |
| HDCD vs the Newer SHM-CD, BluSpec, UHQCD, etc @mahler123 What I was trying to explain is that HDCDs are 20bit but you can't rip them in 20bit, only 16bit. Blu Spec CDs have smaller, more precise lands and grooves which allow them to sound a little better when played on a CDP but when ripped ... | |
| G Rated Comments About the Relevance of Pink Floyd’s Animals Album: Rog getting up to mischief again...... | |
| G Rated Comments About the Relevance of Pink Floyd’s Animals Album: @12many Sounds like you've been listening to "Wish You Were Here". | |
| Okto DAC 8 Stereo (Shout-out) @yyzsantabarbara I look forward to your review of the Okto, you are one of the few people I believe to give an informed and unbiased review. Besides, we have both owned the Musetec 005, which I feel the Okto will struggle to beat. We will see of ... | |
| HDCD vs the Newer SHM-CD, BluSpec, UHQCD, etc I burned the Blue Specs to my NAS, a Melco N 100, and I can’t perceive much difference between playing them on my streamer and play the Blue Specs from the Oppo, into the same DAC Ripping Blu Spec and HDCDs doesn't work, although SHM CD do pa... | |
| G Rated Comments About the Relevance of Pink Floyd’s Animals Album: The link to Animal Farm is hardly tenuous at best, the only common denominator is animals. There is absolutely no link to Lord of the Flies. Animals is seething with hate and misplaced trust after Floyd were scammed and forced to become tax-exile... | |
| Surge protector/conditioner for vintage system There are only a two serious options to protect your system. 1. Insurance 2. Dedicated Solar Power with battery storage or floated batteries on mains power using an inverter. Although I live in a high lighting strike area, almost everything i... | |
| Okto DAC 8 Stereo (Shout-out) My initial impressions are as follows: This is the most transparent DAC I have ever heard, previously owning Denafrips Terminator, Holo Spring, Sonnet Morpheus, Aqua La Scala, PS audio PW DSD and others of lesser renown and quality. Honestly? | |
| best SACD player Once you figure out how to rip your SACDs there's no going back. I use an OPPO 103 to rip which you can get for $200. I load the files onto my Aurender's SSD but you can load them onto a portable SSD and play them through Esoteric gear or whateve... | |
| Benefits of adding a 10MHz Master Clock to a digital system @jjhaz Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the DCS only has a pair of Wordclock inputs, 44.1 & 48 kHz. The Aurender W20 SE has a 10 mHz Masterclock input. The Aurender MC20 can do what you need I don't believe the DCS clock can. Th... | |
| Adventures In Modern Ripping @oldears Just download DVD Audio Extractor https://www.dvdae.com/download it's free for 30 days and $38.50 thereafter. It rips Blu-Ray Audio too. You only need a computer DVD/Blu-Ray drive to rip, an Oppo is only required for SACD ripping. Most... | |
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