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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="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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Telstar wrote: I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD. I disagree. The main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD is not the soundcard/interfac...
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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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[quote user="manisandher"]I am convinced that the soundcard/interface is the main cause of the inferior performance of HDD vs. CD.[/quote]It is....
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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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I tend to agree with them. The ideal sampling rate to do NOS conversion would be 24/384k, but that is not yet available and wont be for a few years....
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Anybody has listened to it?...
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[quote user="coops"]Telstar, sadly i couldn't make it ti the show, did you attend, it must have been more interesting than the Heathrow, london show, 'Six moons' have posted some photographs.http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/industryfeatures.htm...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy Hi, I just mean that instruments sound more real, through the Stahl-tek whether is is the decay of a high hat or the weight of a piano, 'presence' is the same I guess when the instrment just sounds more real, re the selling p...
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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="Antonio J."]WaveLab won't play them either, which is very strange since they were "created" with that software. The only software playing those files, are they .w64 or .wav, is Sony's Sound Forge.Funnily enough I more "saw" the differenc...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yep, Telstar. The 1547 was use in Sony and Teac CD players and believe the first CD-SACD machines used that chip. I know very little about those chips and have none of my personal experience to deal with all of it. The reas...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Antonio, the .w64 are the same as .wav file only it allows windows do not have 2G limitation. If you “can’t” play the .w64 files then juts change the extension to .wav. The difference between those files does exists and it ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Bidat uses TDA1547 chip but I think the iDAT 44 and iDAT-M uses something else. [/quote]Interesting, very interesting.My Teac vrds 10se uses this dac. I have been proposed to mod it to improve the output stage, but i wa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]2) Very smartly rolled off HF. Bidat is not the most advanced HF performer but any other DAC that I heard (you can put here a long list of the best DACs you know off) are too bright for my taste. I do feel ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Weiss new "Minerva" DAC supports firewire and it look like the dealers do promote firewire. This new Weiss might be an interesting new little machine.[/quote]Oh, this seems a very interesting product.Weiss is also known...
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http://www.iar-80.com/page48.htmlThat made me change my mind about getting one.It's a very long and technical read, but it is a must-read.I'm not sure that all double format CDs are horrible on the redbook side, but i may be wrong, as my chain is not...
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...But they are poorly implemented. Something to do with the 24/192 conversion. AFAIK nowadays most recordings are done 24/96, but it will eventually go up when higher resolution devices becomes the standard (I think about Prism, but theres more).Out...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]OK, I will look in that firewire thing sometimes, I know little about it as now. Is quality of firewire controller important? Can I use my on-board firewire? Regarding the onboard audio disabled in bios – nope, I did not do...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
You are not exactly correct about Lynx. First of all my card had no DACs aboard it is just a digital I/O, channels re-mapper and the card’s software. Before I got the card I interviewed quite many technical people about t...
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Never heard of them. Funny how many many many interesting DACs exist and you (the buyer) have not the slightest idea on how they may sound....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have heard 2 positive comments from a people who used the Berkeley Alfa DAC. One of them is in sales and obviously off any credentials. Another person is just a user who used reportedly the DAC at CES (prototype version),...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is always surprised me why audio people never did what FM people did. FM people crated a site: http://www.FmTunerInfo.com where they enumerated in very consistent format all available FM tuners (with exemption of so...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Dima for instance (and he has quite high expertise in the subject) claims that there no true 24bit converters available anyhow. BTW, with all advances of HDCD, that I fully appreciate, it makes send only on 16 bit. At 20...
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Telstar wrote: Not really: it is not true 24 bit. But it should be quite good, exp for the HDCD decode. I have always had a like for hdcds, they sounded better in my old rotel and they sound better even without a hdcd-capable dac.
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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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[quote user="coops"]Romy Hi sorry to have wandered off topic, I am listening at the moment to an MSB Platinum Dac III, hoiping to get the lavry back for comparison, I believe the MSB is multi bit based on a ladder resistor , with 4 24 bit DAc m...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yes, the enclosure something like this, thanks for tip, miab, but it opens a door for desire more. A good box with fanless operation, 1920 x 1200 pixels touch-screen, 6 hard-drives, remoter control, $650 price tag is...
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I also find it quite interesting. Considering their pedigree alone, it's worth a listening.Less is MoreTelstar...
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