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| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio Arj wrote:"If the industry could standardize on HDMI components to transmit native I2S, we could kill off the crappy optical and SPDIF connections we use now and virtually eliminate the need for expensive re-clockers (sorry about that part, Steve)... | |
| Does good technology guarantees musicality? Implementation is everything in front-end gear, particularly DAC's. A good implementation can use a 10-year old D/A chip, but sound better than a new design with a newer D/A chip with better specs, and this is fairly typical. Case in point is the ... | |
| skipping I guess that's why they call it "pop-pulse".All kidding aside, here are some things you should try:1) remove all other USB devices, even the mouse2) forget ASIO, instead unmap the device in device manager3) try other USB ports - you may have a slo... | |
| Itunes Error Correction My customers are reporting the iTunes even with correction on is not as good as EAC on a PC. Try it and decide for yourself.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| what is a lazy old audiophile to do? Forget about AirPort Express unless you you willing to buy a reclocker for it. Very high jitter. Compared to even a mediocre CD player it is poor.The only things I have found with decent jitter in stock form are:Apple TVSqueezebox or DuetFor ease-... | |
| How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP Nnyc - no, you must select "no sounds" in the Windows preferences. Go to sounds and audio devices etc. in control panel.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP You dont need any other driver than what your sound device provides, if any.Just substitute your device for Empirical 1.1 above. I did this recently for a Lynx card. Worked perfectly.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How do I bypass KMixer in Windows XP I have found the easiest and most effective is unmapping the device (example uses Empirical Audio device):Go to Control Panel - System Hardware - Device Manager - Sound Video and Game Controllers Empirical 1.1 - Right-Click and select Properties... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio " if you use USB then it all comes down to the clock in the DAC."Some DAC's have upsampling clocks in them, but many have no clock at all. NOS DAC's have no clock. There are a handfull of very expensive DAC's that generate a local clock and allow ... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio "ShadorneUSB has no clock - it is an asynchronous protocol."Actually, this depends on the USB protocol. All USB converters use Synchronous Adaptive mode, which uses the embedded clock in the data stream from the USB cable. It relies on the clock a... | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio "My Understanding is that in case of a HDD based transport, the File is converted into an Async format (Lossless) . This is then played via a PC/Mac and when given out as digital out, the clock that is synched to is the machines own clock (Am I ri... | |
| Best possible digital output from a computer? Detlof - have you tried rolling thos tubes yet?I have found that really new ones make a big difference in HF extension and clarity (Siemens CCA grey-plates). They need to measure about 18ma. I get them on ebay, usually from someone in Germany.Stev... | |
| Best possible digital output from a computer? Rives - I have yet to find a PCI soundcard that sounds good.Each of these devices has different drivers and different ways of avoiding kmixer, and PCI cards usually have poor clocks, so the result is a lot of jitter.It's hard to tell whether it ji... | |
| Problem with USB audio Horseface - makes me cringe to call you that - the Benchmark and Empirical Audio products use the native windows drivers. There is no driver to load. No ASIO to load.However, there are still some hurdles, namely kmixer on XP. To bypass this, eithe... | |
| Apple versus PC If you were running ASIO on the PC, that explains it. None of the ASIO's sound good IMO. You have to unmap or use kernel streaming.Mac is more trouble-free I admit, but I dont think the upsampler is as good as SRC and Foobar 0.8.3. I dont like the... |