scrith
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| Good music soundcard Here's another vote for the E-Mu 1212M (or 0404M, I guess). The difference in audio quality between one of these and your typical Audigy/Soundblaster card is HUGE. | |
| How important are transports? A good DAC will buffer the data stream it is receiving so that the timing from the transport is irrelevant. So the timing will be based on the clock in the DAC, and the assumption that the DAC knows the rate to play the data back at (which, in mos... | |
| How important are transports? Here's what I know: the $30 CD Drive in my computer can read most CDs (except those that are heavily scratched) PERFECTLY (tested via checksums during the ripping process) at speeds up to 52x normal playback speed. If you don't think your audio-qu... | |
| What's the best aftermarket cable for Senn. HD650? I've owned both the Zu and Moon Audio Silver Dragon. Both were excellent, though my preference ended up being the Zu (at Head-fi people are split between these two cables, generally). | |
| XLR cables are picking up radio/TV hash... You might also consider a power regenerator from PS Audio (like the P600), which converts your home's AC power into DC and then re-generates it as AC with perfect sine waves (or something like that...check out their website for details). From what... | |
| Coaxial or fiber optic i/c for Dolby Digital? I use a computer as my source, and so prefer an optical cable over non-optical so as to prevent all of the electrical noise present in the computer from being attached in any electrical manner to my DAC. | |
| Can anyone rec a sound card with optical output ? I use an E-MU 1212M that I am very happy with. This soundcard also has an EXCELLENT (for a sound card) DAC, which I also use for output to my computer speakers. My standard music path is:FLAC -> Foobar2000 -> E-MU 1212M -> glass toslink c... |