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Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Hi All.

Putting together a reference level system.
My Source is predominantly standard 16/44 played from a MacMini using iTunes and Amarra. Some of my music is purchased from iTunes and the rest is ripped from standard CD's.
For my tastes in music, my high def catalogues are still limited; so Redbook 16/44 will be my primary source for quite some time.

I'm not spending DCS or MSB money. But $15-20k retail is not out of the question.

Upsampling vs non-upsampling?
USB input vs SPDIF?

All opinions welcome.

And I know I need to hear them, but getting these ultra $$$ DAC's into your house for an audition ain't easy.

Looking for musical, emotional, engaging, accurate , with great dimension. Not looking for analytical and sterile.
mattnshilp
audioengr
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CTsooner wrote:

I'm getting The Memory Player with built in DAC and was wondering if I should use the SM to connect the TV to the internal DAC via BNC?

If you are only doing 2-channel, the Synchro-Mesh is a great choice.  If you want it for HT and have a SS proc., then the IFI S/PDIF iPurifier.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

audioengr
3,282 posts
 

Shadorne can you explain then dark energy.

This is the energy needed to place all of the masses in space relative to each other that is not explained by gravity and space-time.  It's an unknown energy.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

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gdhal
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I thought the Emotiva was a DAC

Yes and no. The ERC-3 is a CD player, and does have its own internal DAC (delta sigma). It also has digital output capability which bypasses the internal DAC. I am using the digital AES/EBU output and have it connected to the Yggdrasil AES/EBU input. (which by the way, Moffat claims AES/EBU to Yggy is best)
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shadorne
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Lol - Dark matter? Try Brian May lead guitarist of Queen / he is actually an astrophysicist! I know almost nothing about that. I did read Stephen Hawkings original Black Hole Radiation paper when in high school but never pursued that side of Physics as fascinating as it is - I must have read that in the days when Scientific American was actually Scientific - it has now devoted into populist Cult Cargo science as Feynman would say if he was still alive.
mattnshilp OP
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Hi everyone. Sorry to go off topic to the off topic topic that’s currently the topic, until we get to the main topic. lol. 

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