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| Usb or Optical fwiw I purchased the xonar essence STX - was using it's analog outputs - it only lasted @ 2 years before it died... wish it did not because i would have liked to have tried its coax output | |
| any thoughts? If you want to keep playing your CDs don't purchase a transport just rip to hard drive as audiotroy suggested. Will sound good as or better than most transports new or used. | |
| length of interconnects for passive preamp Many thanks to all; I'll go with 1/2 meter. I did not realize the quality of IC mattered more with a passive preamp. The IC that was recommended was made with mogami 2549 cable and neutrik rean connectors. I'm very much looking forward to seeing ... | |
| CD transports; do they really matter Thank you - I'm glad I jumped in to this thread. Any thoughts regarding playing ripped CDs from a hard drive and how that compares to different levels of transports? I know some have stated that only the highest quality transports will best HD pla... | |
| CD transports; do they really matter DAC: ifi micro idsd No Preamp - the DAC has a volume control - ran direct to quicksilver M60 monoblocks - speakers Eminent technology LFT 8Bs. | |
| CD transports; do they really matter I can't recall the models but a toshiba dvd player, an NAD cd player, sony blu ray player, Denon cd player, and a couple others - nothing very expensive although the NAD was a well built model. Yes the A/B was with the same coax cable and dac. ... | |
| CD transports; do they really matter I have tried many transports and can not hear a difference between an expensive transport and a cheap blu ray player from best buy - but the dacs make a huge difference. However, I know many claim that ripping and playing from a hard drive is bett... | |
| length of interconnects for passive preamp thank you - mine are RCA - and I can go very short place my passive in back of a amp - is there any sonic advantage to going less than 1/2 meter? | |
| Is anyone using a large-screen TV/music setup as your personal computer setup as well? I have my pc tower next to my tv and use a Bluetooth logitech de novo edge keyboard on my lap on the couch -for music (ripped cds) and movies (blu rays) works fine - only thing is with music (foobar) I have to turn my tv on to choose a title. Ot... | |
| CD Player with Volume Control Do you own a laptop? Try ripping your CDs to hard drive and attenuating in the digital domain with a high quality digital volume control - either in a dac or playback software such as foobar or jriver. | |
| usb, spdif, or usb to spdif converter many thanks - actually I do find ripping too complex and cumbersome - the only reason I am doing it is because the computer sounds so much better than the sony br player - curious - what is the other (complex) alternative? | |
| usb, spdif, or usb to spdif converter Thank you. After reading the last 2 posts my gut tells me that my computer is a better transport than the sony BR player. Also I am playing rips from the computer's hard drive so that may partially explain the difference. I power the idsd dac fro... | |
| usb, spdif, or usb to spdif converter Many thanks and hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am running a windows 7 desktop computer (a 12 year old gateway) usb output to an idsd micro dac for both music and blu ray movies. I would rather use a stand alone player. However, wh... | |
| older CD transport vs newer ones. my cd rips played from my computer's hard drive sound better than the cds played from the transports.Sorry that's impossible if the same transport and CD!!!! was used to do the copy with, and both were using the same dac, and exactly the same digi... | |
| older CD transport vs newer ones. I tried several transports connected to my dac, including a friend's mega $ transport (can't remember the make/model). I agree with sns: my cd rips played from my computer's hard drive sound better than the cds played from the transports. |