williewonka
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| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Tim - not sure what your expectations are regarding quality of the different sample rates.I've found it depends on the quality of the engineering and not the sample rate.e.g. I downloaded a Melody Gardot album as MP3 - the engineering is superb an... | |
| Schiit Bifrost with USB & Uber upgrades Drew - the changes where quite noticeable and include...- a larger image, mainly deeper and a little wider- on some tracks the image now envelopes the listener, but the artist and instruments are not forward - it's as though the venue acoustics pr... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Tim - that's great - you are well on your wayEnjoy :-) | |
| Schiit Bifrost with USB & Uber upgrades Well it's been a few months since I purchased the Bifrost and in that time I've completed a few upgrades.The most recent being its power cable and the RCA plugs on it's silver cabled interconnect. The RCA plugs installed are the Copper Harmony fro... | |
| Very Specific Ground Loop Question. What amp/pre are you using and do they both use grounded leadsDid this just start happening? - you could be experiencing a real problem in the amp or preTry grounding the chassis/case of the preampIn my case I have a Naim amp, because of its desig... | |
| Very Specific Ground Loop Question. Have you tried diconnecting the computer ?Best thing to do is start with the amp/pre only - then add each component to see what causes the humRegards | |
| DAC for iMac System Jl35 - as much as I like Moon gear - I have one of their phono stages - you are correct in that the usb interface as they have implemented it is lacking.You would need a USB/spdif converter, like the v-link, to bring it up to the performance of th... | |
| Turntable upgrade, tweaks, or stay put? If you are considering tweaks, one I made on my tt was adding the Audiomods Classic arm - with the beadblast finish and gold counterweight and the micrometer VTA (which you only really need if you change carts a lot)A friend has an Audiomods Serie... | |
| DAC for iMac System Mesch - you might get a used one with USB for $300, but it won't have the Uber Upgrade which makes all the difference.Mentioning the Bifrost was just so J135 knew I had experience of some of their Schiit :-)The Modi and Loki are more in the price ... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Tim - it's sounding much betterI liked the part about pushing to the Oppo with the laptop - that's a nice feature of JRiver and sounds very simple.Hope everything goes smoothly. | |
| Streaming, Apple TV, Tell me why not. I forgot one compelling reason - direct from the Apple support persons mouth...When I explained I was getting dropouts when using the Apple TV...Oh, you're using WAV files - it doesn't work great with WAV files - convert all your WAV's to mp3 then... | |
| DAC for iMac System Take a look at Schiit product - I have the bifrost and it is excellent with the optional UBER analogue upgrade.They also have the Modi DAC for $99 and the Loki, a DSD processor for $150.They make some very good product | |
| Streaming, Apple TV, Tell me why not. I started with the Apple TV in wireless mode streaming from my itunes library on my imac, then switched to wired and the dropouts reduced significantly. Upgrading the power cord on the apple TV improved quality considerably and also using a DH Lab... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Tim - here's a thought - is there anywhere near you that has the Oppo in a system so you can go and get a detailed demo of the interface?That could save a lot of time and streamline your decision makingThe one thing I have found with the media str... | |
| DIGITAL HIGH-RES AUDIO SYSTEM -HELP PLEASE Al - I get the impression that Tim's ultimate goal is to have a seperate hard drive next to the Oppo (connected in some manner) and Tim sitting in his listening chair with his laptop, using JRiver to control the next track to play, or downloading ... |