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High Quality Music Server / CD player 6585 
Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. 6585 
Inconveniences of music servers 6584 
Am I missing something? 6584 
Data in = Data out 6583 
A perfect copy? 6583 
CDP vs HDD 6582 
Perhaps your hardware is different... 6582 
Get ripped & clocked 6581 
Quality & Quantity of Music...Oxymorons...Fibre Optics 6580 
Don't necessarily trust your soundcard/interface... 6572 
Bypass that sound card! 6570 
Look both ways 6570 
Is USB the solution? 6570 
Bypass that sound card? The Cosecant DAC? 6570 
The Cosecant correction. 6570 
Has anyone tried the 24/192 Benchmark DAC Pre? 6570 
Probably, maybe, yes 6569 
Benchmarking 6569 
USB or do not USB? 6569 
OK, some bobber really of USB. 6565 
An audiophile grade server: The Linux Solution 6499 
The Linux and a slightly misleading point of 6499 
The digital audio future... 6499 
Lynix vs. Windows files playing. 6498 
Timing is everything 6497 
The Asynchronously gifted Wavelength Audio DAC's 6497 
The problem that I have with idea of USB DACing. 6497 
The TDA1543 and the NOS sound 6497 
Of TDA DAC chips and such 6496 
Méfiez-vous... 6496 
Newer NOS DAC chips??? 6496 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6490 
Noise? Go optical... 6490 
Of the vaguest specifications but, of course, the best intentions... 6490 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6490 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6490 
The tongue was firmly planted in cheek. 6490 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6490 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6490 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6489 
Beyond the transport 6489 
The media is the bitch. 6489 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6489 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6489 
Idea... 6489 
Come on!!! 6489 
Idea... 6489 
MAC airport Express 6489 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6489 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6489 
How to slow the CD readers. 6487 
Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio 6487 
Putting the proper spin on it 6486 
Extracting data from a CD 6422 
Ten Questions about Computer Audio 6422 
I disagree with Charles Hansen 6422 
EAC, Mr. Hansen etc. 6422 
Ripping and playback software is important 6421 
External power supply for DAW 6385 
The sonically approved computer powers supply? 6385 
Commonality of power 6383 
Home brewed power supply for music server 6383 
I think it is different. 6383 
The people who have to do it must do it. 6383 
Best sounding version of iTunes 6310 
"Official Response" 6310 
A music player for iTunes 6309 
Dem in Munich 6309 
Amarra; I'll try it the day afta tomarra 6309 
Must have been convincing 6309 
Markus Hi 6309 
Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ 6309 
Jessie 6309 
Thanks for the reply 6309 
Computer transport 6308 
The interface is the culprit 6308 
Music servers pop like mushrooms 6308 
The main cause of the inferior performance... 6308 
PC grounding. 6307 
Interfaces, interfaces 6307 
Isolating a computer 6307 
HDD sound vs CDP sound & NOS DACs 6307 
NOS -> Acronym 6307 
Not vintage 6307 
NOS and filterless 6307 
The PC interface 6305 
The "custom-built" by dealers audio computers. 6299 
Weiss AFI1 joined the Interface Club 6287 
More about the AFI1 6287 
The power supply in DAWs 6287 
AFI1 now works 'properly' in dual-wire mode 6169 
Good for Weiss! 6169 
The sounds of silence; continued 6064 
What is ST? 3724 
Lavry Digital wiki 3724 
Optimal Sample Rate. 3724 
Perfect or good 3724 
CD ripping 3724 
Less is more 3723 
USB 2.0 3718 
Computer Audio 3708 
Who cares what they think? 3707 
This is objective not subjective 3706 
If we are Rating, what are we rating? 3706 
USB 3705 
Computer/usb, cd transport/spdif 3704 
CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha USB 3651 
Sure, but I doubt that anyone need to care about results besides you. 3651 
Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core -> Apple USB Driver -> Gordon USB Code (Berkeley) -> SPDIF -> DAC 3650 
CEC TL0X Berkeley USB to S/PDIF 3645 
Some updates 3567 
Computer vs TL0 3567 
Compress dynamic 3566 
My revision 3562 
BBB 3530 
Cd transport vs. computer 3508 
Very much opposite. 3506 
Re "The media is the bitch." 3506 
So many variables. 3506 
Custom MOBO. 3506 
Nope, it was not me. 3506 
A mistake then. 3506 
Musica Pristina. 3506 
Aurender N10 3505 
What is the problem with N10? 3505 
Musica Pristina 2. 3505 
N10 3505 
Please, elaborate. 3504 
N10 Review 3504 
Linux ALSA 3494 
OSS. 3494 
Alix2d2 3490 
Audiophile Linux. 3490 
Runeaudio 3490 
Rune Audio are just tweaks. 3490 
Runeaudio 3490 
Optimizations 3489 
NetBSD 3489 
The locus of intervention 3488 
There are other reasons. 3488 
Flac is not bit-perfect 3486 
Flac is just a contender. 3485 
Flac is bit-perfect 3452 
Anything add something to the total load of the pr... 3452 
Mpd config 3452 
The current mpd version is 0.20.6! 3452 
New MPD is written by C++ 3452 
Load. 3452 
Mpd config script 3452 
Is there any good digital designer? 3442 
More moronic blah blah? 3442 
Haha :-))) 3441 
Looking for a good external Power Supply 3438 
Simple and cheap 3438 
Purepower 3000 is on the way 3438 
Isolation is everything 3438 
PC Audio 3090 
Toslink might help 3068 
I dont think about it 3068 
AES67 3032 
Can you burn CD from Spotify? 3005 
Burn Spotify to CD 2976 
Dbpoweramp Ripping vary by different reading passes 2938 
Accuracy 2938 
EAC, CD/DVD drive 2938 
Computer audio does not sound good 1586 
"Correcting" Audio Problems 1586 
Digital recording/mixing/mastering 1585 
At What Point Does Corruption Occur? 1585 
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