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| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? "Apple lossless is exactly what the word says: Lossless. Period."That all depends on whether you rip directly to ALAC with iTunes or rip with EAC first and then convert to ALAC with iTunes. Try it.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? If you want to hear a serious difference, go to ebay and purchase a VALAB DAC for $200. They come up for sale avery couple of weeks. Then drive it with a low-jitter source. Not your CD player. Simple, NOS DAC's are superb, but only if driven with ... | |
| Exact Audio Copy Software I recommend ripping to .wav using "test and copy". Make sure that you run the "setup" where it asks you to insert a clean CD disk. Setup sets the "offsets" and determines the error reporting.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Wi-Fi Fidelity? Ethernet is the best transport medium, either WiFi or wired, for audio data.This is a system-thing, not a device or protocol thing. Some systems may be sensitive to RFI, but for other reasons. In particular, ground-loops provide very nice loop ant... | |
| Sonos--deal killer Just pay the $100 and get a bridge. It will extend the reach as well. This is the best WiFi solution on the market. | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Look, I am a EE with over 30 yeard design experience. We can debate the theory and the science until the cows come home. The fact is there are differences here, and comparing .wav to .wav files does not explain it.One person that did this experime... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Peter is not the only one that has heard this anomaly by a long shot. I have received a number of reports of the same thing. The problem happens even when the data is streamed with WiFi to AirPort Express or AppleTV.If the file is ripped directly ... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Dtc - it turns-out that hardware upsamplers are mostly inferior to software upsamplers. Makes perfect sense. There are limitations to what you can do in hardware and how long it takes to do it. It usually a compromise. Software on the other hand i... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "Hey Steve.Why is Kernel Streaming better than ASIO for KMixer avoidance?"Because at least with XP, every ASIO plug-in that I have tried sounds different. I dont trust them anymore. Unmapping has a clarity that ASIO just does not delivery IME.Stev... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "Do you get 16/44.1 out of J River?"Yes, but with my USB converter it's 24/44.1. With some devices attached to my Pace-Car, it's 16/44.1. The Sonos is also 24/44.1, but bit-perfect."If I read your comment correctly Vista converts 16/44.1 to 24/44.... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "If there is no additional software other than the native drivers, I would suspect that the upconversion still happens. Do you concur? Does your converter get 44.1 out of iTunes?"No, not with Vista and my converter. It changes 16/44.1 into 24/44.1... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? "XP generally upscales 44.1 files to 48 unless special drives are installed."Not true. My USB converter uses the native drivers and it outputs 44.1 on XP. There are several ways to avoid kmixer, including:1) unmapping the device2) Kernel Streaming... | |
| 10 questions about computer audio My home computer looks nothing like that. I guess I'll need to get a chrome steering wheel for it.....Steve N. | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Just improving the Toslink from the Mac will reduce jitter a little, but it does not change the clock inside the MAc, which is the true source of the jitter.If you go USB to S/PDIF, there are three advantages:1) Eliminate the Toslink optical conve... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio Mapman wrote:"So in the case of jitter, once the clocking of the data is hosed, how practically does re-clocking it make it right again or at least better. What algorithm is used? Is it that the correct clocking is just implicit in the sample rate... |