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| Best jitter free USB DAC "Steve, are you suggesting then that the Transporter which uses a wireless network has the lowest jitter??"No, I'm suggesting that the potential for lower jitter exists with these types of devices. It's all in the parts selection and the design im... | |
| Best jitter free USB DAC "So steve, which is the best sounding DAC of those listed...e.g.Stello DA100 USB-D/A ConverterBenchmark DAC 1/USBTransporterWavelength Brick/USBLavry DAC"The Benchmark DAC-1 USB is the best sounding stock DAC in the list IMO due to the excellent f... | |
| Best jitter free USB DAC "Steve, how does the I2S fit into the above considerations?"I2S is a means to keep the jitter low once you have a low-jitter signal. Creating S/PDIF again just adds jitter back in. Therefore, if you can stay I2S, the total jitter result will be lo... | |
| Best jitter free USB DAC Here is the link to the TI design saga:http://www.planetanalog.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12801995Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Best jitter free USB DAC John - USB DAC's and USB to S/PDIF interfaces CAN have extremely low jitter, even lower than the best Transports, but implemetation and parts choices are critical. Jitter immunity claims must be taken with grain of salt IMO.There are several ingre... | |
| USB output from Foobar with Windows XP? You should not be using KS or ASIO with the Benchmark DAC-1 USB. It is a driverless firmware that bypasses kmixer. Just use Directsound or DirectSound2.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| iPod to a Benchmark Media DAC-1 D/A I'm planning to do this, but only in conjunction with my Pace-Car reclocker that outputs I2S to an I2S DAC. I believe I can bring-out the I2S interface of the iPod on the docking connector.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer | |
| Audiophile USB to PCM Benefits of USB - Currently the implementations are superior to networked, and most wirless networked servers do not support 24/96.Networked is superior technically to USB because the clock is regenerated at the receiving unit. It is being held-ba... | |
| Music server quality. Wireless and networked servers are superior technically to USB or Firewire, although some wireless servers are limited to 16//44.1 currently. Networked is superior because networked streaming audio is clocked at the destination, not from the sourc... | |
| Transport/DAC upsample question Audiobb - the USB converter can provide upsampled data at 24/96 to the DAC if the upsampling takes place on the computer, such as using SRC for PC's. | |
| Sonos turns your house into an ipod Johnmcelfresh - I mod practically all of these and sell my own USB converters, so I know what they all sound like stock. It's not that the strategy of the Wi-Fi players is no good, it's the implementations that are lacking.The question was asked "... | |
| Sonos turns your house into an ipod Mods for the Sonos will be available in the near future. I have one in the queue. | |
| Which USB implementation, Benchmark built-in or ? The Off-Ramp uses a low-jitter Superclock4. The Benchmark DAC-1 USB uses a simple inexpensive crystal. The Benchmark DAC-1 USB sounds very nice, and the reclocking that upsamples to 24/192 does help eliminate some of the jitter, but there are quit... | |
| Up to the Minute: Streaming Bits to Audiophile DAC CWlondon - No, we are not in the dark ages, you are just looking in the wrong places IMO.Steve N. | |
| General question on PC audio set-up I'm afraid you are missing everything, sorry. The fact that you are not using upgraded interconnects or speaker cables and a "splitter" tells all. The entire system must be tweaked/modded in order to get superb sound. No splitters allowed. The oth... |