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[quote user="alexd"]As far as Music Server goes, the single board computer with linear power supply or battery supply is correct approach, I was talking about MAC or PC.[/quote]As long as you isolate the signal that goes to the dac from the noise of ...
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Dear Romy,Of course I would love to be able to use my personal computer as a music server. I did evaluate music servers (although it was some 2 years ago) and tested the capabilities of my personal computers, including Exact Audio Copy, lossles...
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Here's a computer playback approach that I though people might be interested in. In many ways, it's pretty much the leading edge of computer playback as far as I know.The idea here is to isolate the DAC as much as possible from the PC. All the audio ...
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I'd only try to move the computer screen out of the way of the tapestry....
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[quote user="tuga"]Telstar, what do you think would be the most efficient way to ground a computer? Would this affect performance as much as it does any other audio component? Cheers, Tuga[/quote] Not grounding it? ;) Seriously, there's people that f...
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I'm not sure I'm clear what you're saying . . . if we're talking about using a CD mechanism to read files in real-time, during playback, we're entering a world of pain. Engineered solutions to the problems thus presented are expensive and specialised...
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CJ Yes I have assessed AC polarity in my system.Romy says "I took today my large
3kW isolation transformer and place it between my dedicated line and
PP3000. I lost my lower bass, simple as that. "Speaking of isolation transformers, I have not h...
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[quote user="Amir"]these are my findings about computer audio after some trial error:1. computer audio is very very hardware/OS/software dependent. computer structure is multi task (time sharing) and using it as a real time single task processor is n...
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Romy: you found your CD transport sounded better than a CD-ROM drive, is that right? That seems reasonable. But you've not stated what computer the CD-ROM drive was attached to . . .In an audio computer, the CD-ROM drive is really, really irrelevant:...
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It's interesting that the enthusiasm in going to a more convenient but lower fidelity system is apparently higher than the reverse. Shows why audiophiles are a niche sect. The OP would have been more convincing if the enthusiasm was paired with a log...
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these are my findings about computer audio after some trial error:1. computer audio is very very hardware/OS/software dependent. computer structure is multi task (time sharing) and using it as a real time single task processor is not easy.even small ...
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I saw this topic and it prompted me to register and reply, rather than just read, which I've been doing on and off for years now.
While I would love to have the time, space and patience for ...
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I have not been able to respond to all your questions until now because I was infected by a trojan on this site several days ago. It SUCKS having this happene because it takes radical hours of time to track this crapware down through the window...
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Post #116:
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Amir
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2017-01-25
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[quote user="nycparamedic"]After living with my current custom Linux music server does not leave me wanting anything much when it comes to playing music:A PC Engines ALIX single board computer in a small aluminum enclosure and running Voyage Linux. T...
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I am not well familiar with what Berkeley. Their voyage to the beginnings unit that the company started was irrelevant to me and then thinner USB version did not attract my attention. It is not that I feel that they were bad units. I never had th...
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I looked what is around and I did not like whatever I see. The industry music server machines are all crap and mostly made to copy CDs and to play them from semi-intelligent applications. My requirements are very specific and not of the existing mac...
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Guys, it is worth thinking about where the computer attributable noise is best intercepted. Since the signal is digital all the way to the DAC, it is sufficient to optoisolate the USB connection. If your DAC runs the USB traffic asynchronously al...
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Hi Currawong, thanks for sharing your experiences.My own computer playback journey goes back some 9-10 years ago when I started using a MOTU 896HD to interface a PC to my then Esoteric D70 DAC. And in the passing time the one thing I've learned about...
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[quote user="Telstar"] scooter wrote:* Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audioph...
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now i am trying to setup my mac music server.useful information :http://www.amr-audio.co.uk/html/dp777_tech-papers_cmpDataBit4dummies.htmlhttp://designwsound.com/dwsblog/hifi-computer-faq/http://www.amr-audio.co.uk/html/dp777_tech-papers_OSX-Integerm...
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[quote user="item"]
Romy the Cat wrote: oxric wrote:By analogy, an Item Audio equipped with an optional blu-ray drive would serve precisely this function. It would spin a disc, extract the data and code it so that it is available for the next stage...
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[quote user="Jordi"] I have not been able to respond to all your questions until now because I was infected by a trojan on this site several days ago. It SUCKS having this happene because it takes radical hours of time to track this crapware do...
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[quote user="Max Shatsky"]Amir,You can try to connect Toslink cable to your MacBook headphone jack, if your model supports this. In my case, it made a huge difference vs the USB interface. And then you can compare it to Toslink output from your CEC. ...
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Part of the reason we call our computers 'transports' is to encourage people to think of the number-crunching part of an audio system in the same already familiar terms as a CD player - because all the same things matter: CD transports vary according...
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[quote user="rowuk"]How many sources do you currently have? If you are building a phono corrector, make it for 4 volts output. If you have a PC for digital playback, there are good DACs with more than 2V output. That would leave a tuner to pimp - cer...
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Amir,Anything running in a computer add something to the total load of the computer. The flac decompression is negligible, unless you are using something über low powered - better read quite old. It should not add much more than 1% load to just one o...
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about CD ripping :http://designwsound.com/dwsblog/hifi-computer-faq/cas-5-cd-ripping-for-mac-itunes/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Mac Quad G5” CDDA->AIFF (Just dr...
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[quote user="scooter"]Gentlemen:
...*Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audiop...
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Romy wrote (in blue) :
"... Are you saying that you are able to play from your PC music that you got by ripping CD and you have better sound from PC? ..."
Yes, and because of this it would be accurate to say that my system is music-...
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I don't know what I'd do if I were in your position. In mine I'll just add another external USB2.0 drive when the current one is full. I know, no RAID nor auto-backup features, but inexpensive, silent and reliable.If I wanted to have back-u...
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