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| Bit perfect digital output from pc You can get the Chaintec 710 for about 25.00 dollars and set the output to 44 khz. Output to the DAC is toslink only on this card. Foobar as the frontend with kernel streaming. Should be no differnce in sound output when you are bit perfect. | |
| Need help choosing a power amp Look for the Bryston 3B - 4B - or 7B series amplifiers. All come with a 20 yr warranty and will be in the price range you desire. | |
| What is the sound quality from PC to home stereo. I am using my PC as the database/transport to a Tri Vista 21 DAC. This then feeds the Bryston BP25 Pre to 4 7BST monoblocks. The speakers are Infinity RS1B's with a crossover. Foobar is the frontend and the files are ripped to WAV and tagged with ... | |
| Anyone know WMA? Well then why don't you reccomend using Foobar as I am. You can tag the file with the FreeDB plugin after ripping to WAV format. You can rip with EAC or the foobar program. Kernel streaming with bit perfect output is no problem using Foobar. One d... | |
| Your Preference U24, Xitel, M-Audio or Edirol ??? Use a Chaintec 710 pc card with kernel streaming to the DAC for bit perfect output. No need to spend copious amounts of money to output to the DAC. You now have bypassed the Kmixer from Windows. Foobar 2000 as the frontend for the card. Bingo. Mark | |
| CD-player for $1100 - Can I do any better? Tonyptony,I have no experience with the squeezebox at all, though I can tell you that the PC based system is as good if not better in many respests that a single disk system cannot surpass. Those of which I listed above. As for sound quality, I pr... | |
| CD-player for $1100 - Can I do any better? Yes,Bit perfect output from your PC to an exceptional DAC. Foobar as the front-end to catalog your collection. Free DB to tag the files. Hard drive based systems will rival any highend transport for a fraction of the cost. I have owned many transp... | |
| Big Stupid Warm Speakers Big Stupid Kappa 9's or the Big stupid RS1B's | |
| Hard Drive based system I have been running a hard drive for about a year now and it sounds superb. As stated above, the convienience is fantastic. Foobar has been my choice for the front end, with a Chaintek 710 for bit perfect output. The DAC is the Musical Fidelity Tr... | |
| Mono blocks-High current/low impedance...options? Try a pair of Bryston 7BSST monoblocks. Reasonably priced for the performance and sound quality. | |
| Paging Mr. Albert Porter If you had my Genesis 201's would you rip them apart looking for nervona?? Possibly the best speakers I have owned over the years. I have not heard much that can compare to them when auditioning equiptment. | |
| Envy 24 Audio software GO to the Via forum and look at the threads regarding your issues. | |
| Envy 24 Audio software GO to the ia forum and look at the threads regarding your issues. | |
| Basic questions about analoge to digital ripping MP3 to .WAV seems illogical at best when the former is lossy and WAV lossless. | |
| AAC or AppleLossless Tom,I have not used Itunes, so I cannot comment further on the possibilities. I use foobar2k for the Database which supports these options. I could test as most others do when I get a few extra hours.Mark |