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Romy wrote : "... did you use good transport to make this assessment?..." Electrocompaniet EMC-1 : Certainly not the absolute last word in transports, but still quite good* "...So, you have 16/44 dost and you can create a file from it, the file the y...
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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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I'v read the book (missing a few of the last pages). The boook definetly have som useful information. Especially about setup, placing speakers at different positions and some decent and brief info on acoustic treatment. Unfortunately, there is in my ...
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Alexd wrote :"...most of them do not sound as good as good quality 16Bits cd transport...""Most of them"... Well you are honest; enough so to admit that some do, though they may not be of your own creation."...Our DAC improved computer generated...
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[quote user="tuga"]...of manufacturers claims. They have to make a living out of selling their gear. From what I gather, the "select top 5%" are just that: no physical diferences, just tighter quality control. [/quote]That's what I suspected.[quote u...
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Yes, sure we can do the experiment, and in fact I too am curious (stayed up until way too late looking for an appropriate recording...) ; it will however only be a test of the "file ripping performance" of iTunes via my Mac and it's associated extern...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Jim, do I know you?
I ask because I know one Jim near Boston who has Lavry DAC and who has the new Thorsten's Abbingdon Music Research. The Thorsten's DAC should be Multibit as. It might be very interesting and I assure yo...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Telstar wrote :"...it's always the DAC which accounts for the vast majority of the sound quality. This is why the guy above feels that his music server with Wavelength dac sounds better. There is also the unknown rule tha...
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[quote user="manisandher"]fiogf49gjkf0dHere'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 ...
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good point in here;graphic cards perform so well because they are optimized to perform limited tasks and are cheap.I have been listening
,researching and experimenting to get musically interesting and satisfyting results from cd for 25+ years now.I...
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Neil Young and Meridian are launching yet another digital "high resolution" business:http://evolver.fm/2013/08/13/neil-youngs-pono-ecosystem-will-put-a-freemium-on-sound-quality/So one could choose either.(1) a (maybe) higher resolution file using th...
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To my big surprise the Pacific tuned out to be an absolutely wonderful 16-bit DAC - the only one that migh compete with by Bidat. It does not go into max weigh of lowest end as some other best converters do but it has such an interesting and reach “e...
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Since Pacific lost it’s battle to Lavry AD122 as AD converter I was wondering what I might do with this possessor. My initials sentiment was to sell but Pacific to my large surprise turned out to be a very good CD-level DAC. In fact it is so good 16B...
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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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Thanks guys. It's interesting to hear such perspectives, especially upon computer audio; to go by the "audiophile press", high-res computer files are the best thing since that proverbial sliced bread - just like DVDAudio, HDCD, SACD etc were - so muc...
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Well, I think the in this inquiry would be the use of CEC TLOX transport. If you do putting together a system from the ground up then it is arguable if it makes sense to commit yourself with CEC TLOX. This transport is from the last century and i...
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Jessie, I have two comments/questions.
Are you sure that using the USB you do not use the sound card? I am a software guy not a hardware guy and with my limited understanding I presume that an application that reads a file must talk to so kind of dr...
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Oh I was thinking about FLAC, such as the ones from Linn Records, not raw WAVE files.
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Might be the new Berkley DAC would do it for you.http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=6382[/quote]Not really: it is ...
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KOTriode, I was not criticizing your DAC, whatever it is. I was saying that system-design-wise if your preamp was able to inflict such a dramatic change in Sound then in my view it just highlighted the problem with DAC. Take another DAC, or any comme...
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Hm, interesting. The problem might be in ADC, I/O cared, Recorder or DAC. When you do the experiment do you record the file? If so then you might plug ADC directly into DAC. Might your problem be with cloaking? I do know what erumpent you use but can...
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[quote user="scooter"]* 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 audiophile CD player w...
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[quote user="Amir"]In loudspeaker and amplifier design we could use more channels to have better result (like 12 channel DSet concept) but i never seen any DAC/Pre to have more channels.It seems i am speaking about moronic idea but it is interesting ...
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Keith,I am sorry, man, but you are so incredibly predictable! Your accents on the assessments of sonic attributes of audio elements are so banal and so “wiling” that is it almost boring. I this giving case, knowing something about the Stahl-Tek...
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Maybe.But the problem is that I love the sound of my (old) D70 dac! A bit dry, yes, but it sounds fundamentally 'correct'.When I find a USB dac with HDCD capability, true multibit converters (preferably BB 1704s) and an ability to...
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Refusing to quit while ahead, I took another half-hearted swipe at it, and there for anyone to see was this:http://6moons.com/audioreviews/psaudio5/ppp.htmlDoes all this "digital processing" actually happen "real fast" with "low distortion"...
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Well, leaving aside my "grinding axes", namely my habitual love to remind people and myself that there are plenty Morons in audio I do think that Berkeley's parley to Reference DAC is interesting. It is interesting not by the DAC as a unit but rather...
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New review by the computer audiophile at http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/599-berkeley-audio-design-alpha-dac-reference-series-review/The review is what it is. There is a lot of history behind the company and it appears to be a site sponsor....
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The original Odyssey PC625 battery I used for my DAC finally crapped out, a couple of months ago. This means it worked when I wanted it to for 12 1/2 years. Not bad, I think, and this even though it mostly just sat there, doing nothing, since I usual...
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From the link belowhttp://www.lavryengineering.com/lavry_forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3919it looks like the new Lavry DAC is a completely new design. For sure they do not want to talk about it and it might be not a good sigh. The Lavry DA924 was som...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]First I was wondering why the Berkeley Boys who were in there did not run their new converter but used the 10 years old Pacific DAC?[/quote]It's interesting that no one on AA seems to have picked up on this fact!If I were f...
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