Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Why Reclock If Using Low Jitter DAC
Happy to toss in my 2 cents. I'm no audio engineer, but I'm a music lover, trained musician across quite a few instruments, and have played/orchestrated/arranged and listened to live music in a variety of venue types (which I recognize in an audiophile community is very common of course! I'm always humbled reading these forums!). What I can say is that to my ears (and a few others who have heard it) and in my particular audio setup the PaceCar2 reclocker has had a surprisingly positive impact. I've had it for almost 2 weeks as has been breaking in nicely. I use the Transporter, feed the PaceCar, SPDIF to a Meridian 568.2 (which I recognize isn't as good as today's 2 ch DACs of equivalent price or even lower as it's a few years old now, but very musical and impressive for a multi-channel processor when paired with quality cabling/power/etc.). I have it set up to do A/B comparisons between (1) Transporter's analog output (using it's internal DAC), (2) T's digital coax output using Meridian's DAC, and (3) Toslink out to PaceCar to Meridian. Frankly the comparison is almost silly to the point that it's a tad depressing switching back to (1) or (2). Listening to 24/96 music is truly a treat with this system. I don't have any personal experience with the Benchmark DAC or some of the top DAC's in the market today to know if the relative impact on performance would be the same or not, so just giving you all one data point. -- silverlight silverlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63796 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Empirical Audio Pace Car Reclocker Observations
Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. I just received a Pace Car 2 and Bitmeister SPDIF cable today from Steve @ Empirical. For the skeptics in this thread, I will say unequivocally, hands down, this device has added tremendously to my system in very, very noticeable ways. I'm sitting here writing this while I listen to some music I know well (i.e., Seal Best of Acoustic 24bit recording ripped from DVD-A, Rebecca Pidgeon Retrospective 24/96, Blue Coast Records tracks in 24/96, Norah Jones, Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, even a popular CD like Taylor Swift Fearless, etc.), and am finding myself reguarly having to lift my falling jaw... and this is in it's first hour or two of duty and so not broken in yet. Music has more detail, meaningfully more extension in the highs and lows, more musical and analog sounding (without any compromise in detail), better separation between instruments / voices, bigger soundstage (and far better imaging of the instruments within the soundstage). Setup for context is Transporter-PaceCar2-Meridian568.2-Krell amp. (the PaceCar2 uses it's word clock output with the Transporter as slave) Kudo's to Steve for such a great product. -- silverlight silverlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57107 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Transporter Review in TAS
Looks like they allow the download of the current issue in pdf format, however on the website they're still on the May/June issue. hopefully will be posted soon. they also clearly provide a subset of their reviews open-access online as well, so the Transporter may be in the category as well. in the meantime, I have no idea how to get physical magazines as a one-off from a store... haven't done that in 10+ years... -- silverlight silverlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63161 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
