The AVR250 is significantly better than the 200 (I'm told), so I'll buy
a digital coax connector and try it.
By the way, it's always seemed odd to me that the quality of a DIGITAL
connector can possibly have any bearing on sound quality. Analog yes,
but digital?
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ilancas
Andrew L.Weekes said the following on 02/01/2006 00:16:
Interesting. What is the equations that describe this?
If it is too long to post, got an URL?
SNR (DBC)=#8211;20 LOG10(2#960;.FIN.TJITTER), WHERE FIN IS THE
ANALOG-INPUT FREQUENCY, TJITTER IS THE TOTAL SYSTEM JITTER IN SECONDS.
ilancas Wrote:
By the way, it's always seemed odd to me that the quality of a DIGITAL
connector can possibly have any bearing on sound quality. Analog yes,
but digital?
Careful, big can of worms here !
Just have a search on this forum for discussions on jitter...
Ceejay
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ceejay
I've been curious about jitter for a while, and had a few thoughts, but I
don't know if they make sense.
First some observations:
1) jitter is not an issue in the digital connection over ethernet sending
FLAC/WAV data to the SB (here I mean that if it occurs and causes errors
these are detected
mwphoto Wrote:
would the audiophiles agree that jitter would no longer be an issue? Or
are there other effects at work?
The results prob wouldn't be spectacular or anything. Since your're
getting a DAC, just get the benchmark that reclocks instead of
modifying anything.
In a recent post
sgraphics Wrote:
Can't go higher in price, can go lower in price :)
Higher than what? The receiver? You never mentioned needing
amplification too! Maybe that's what you meant by radio...
All I wanted to say is you don't need the radio. Internet radio is fun,
and the SB streams it
Skunk Wrote:
Sometimes you just have to leave well-enough alone :) Benchmark has some
great reading linked from their site.
Regarding the Benchmark, I just read a review by Peter Aczel of The
Audio Critic (which for $12 gives you a lifetime subscription to the
webzine). This guy performs
Alas, I use an iMac G5. No lights going off and on. Bummer. Why?
Because when you're rescanning the entire library, at least on my
machine, the server turns off. To get web access, you have to turn the
server on. However, turn it on too soon...and it seems to mess up the
process.
There
highdudgeon Wrote:
Alas, I use an iMac G5. No lights going off and on. Bummer. Why?
OK, I'm sure there's some piece of software which will indicate disk
usage.
Because when you're rescanning the entire library, at least on my
machine, the server turns off. To get web access, you have
Skunk Wrote:
If the DVD player has exceptional jitter performance, the sound would
probably be indistinguishable from HDUSBDAC- unless you consider
things like external connections and power supplies...
In your case its probably because your DVD player sucks :)
:-)
It's definitely not
Kyle Wrote:
I've hooked up the m22i's and love the high end, but they seem a little
weak on the lower midrange and midbass. The midrange drivers are
smaller than I expected. They sound much better coupled with my Boston
Acoustics CR8's than when I disconnect the CR-8's and listen to the
Just put my SB3 on a linear power supply here in Switzerland. It's a
2.0Amp 2ppm supply and subjectively listening (too lazy to compare
objectively to the original supply, had it going for 2-3 weeks though)
to it, I would say, it's a clear improvement albeit not breath-taking.
The top is more
SB3 - Tact 2.0 - Odyssey MonoBlocks - Axioms 80
highly recommended, throwing out my CD transport out now except for
some HDCD listening (which does not sound significantly better than
normal CDs unfortunately). SB3 with linear supply is more musical.
I use also a good NAD tuner for radio, that
mauidan Wrote:
Even if the circuit were a lot less perfect, that would still be the
case. News Flash- the DAC-1's circuit is not perfect.
If I needed a DAC, for the same money, I'd rather have a Lavry Black.
Aren't you being kind of a wordsmith? I think less perfect is
supposed to be taken
Agree on the short 5v cable - I used two core mains (pain to solder into
the plug) and kept the length to 12. Worth the trouble though.
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w/ a Accoustic Zen MC2 digital cable. Sounds very nice.
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Thanks for all the replies, but I'm afraid that I still don't understand
why the SB doesn't have a higher profile in the hi-fi press or why in
many cases it isn't reviewed at all. Here are a few potential reasons:
The SB is too cheap. But this can't be because why then did John
Atkinson choose
sprev Wrote:
Thanks for all the replies, but I'm afraid that I still don't understand
why the SB doesn't have a higher profile in the hi-fi press or why in
many cases it isn't reviewed at all. Here are a few potential reasons:
The SB is too cheap. But this can't be because why then did
Markhh2 Wrote:
w/ a Accoustic Zen MC2 digital cable. Sounds very nice.
It would sound even better with an Acoustic Zen Silver Byte digital
cable. :-) The MC2 is a 110ohm cable designed for an AES/EBU digital
interface, whereas the Silver Byte is 75ohms designed for use with
SPDIF, which is
P, no need to get so technical. Yes, I meant M$. I realize they didn't
invent the idea behind DOS, but hey, they did trademark it, right? I
don't think we have to worry about SD becoming $D, but I was trying to
make a point!
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ezkcdude
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:07 -0800, ezkcdude wrote:
P, no need to get so technical. Yes, I meant M$. I realize they didn't
invent the idea behind DOS, but hey, they did trademark it, right?
Trademark DOS? No. Disk Operating System was a common term
long before the IBM PC was invented. They
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:39 -0800, konut wrote:
Edit #2: Looks like I should throw in the Apogee Mini-DAC, as well.
It's $850 without the USB, which I assume most of us don't need,
because we have the SqueezeBox, afterall. FYI, all three of these DAC's
can be found at Mercenary Audio's online
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:46 -0800, ezkcdude wrote:
Now, you're just being a dork.
Name calling makes your argument stronger?
Who cares about the acronym? Microsoft
popularized DOS and made it a commercial venture. MS-DOS wasn't such a
bad thing. In fact, isn't it still being used in the
Sorry, about the name-calling. That was out of line.
As for the other stuff, I'm not sure how much easier they can make this
stuff. There's a lot of technology to wrangle to make the SB work,
right? I think we'll see this year whether Apple can do it themselves.
The only reason I think Apple
ezkcdude Wrote:
Which forums? I'd be interested to check those out, too!
Those would be Rec. Audio Pro on the Google newsgroups,
http://gearslutz.com/board/ , http://www.prosoundweb.com/ and
http://www.bigbluelounge.com/ which used to be called OSXAudio.com.
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konut
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:42 -0800, konut wrote:
ezkcdude Wrote:
Which forums? I'd be interested to check those out, too!
Those would be Rec. Audio Pro on the Google newsgroups,
http://gearslutz.com/board/ , http://www.prosoundweb.com/ and
http://www.bigbluelounge.com/ which used to be
The complexity will work itself out eventually. I remember the early
days of PCs when I had to juggle interrupts everytime I made a hardware
change to the machine. That all got sorted out, and the difficulties in
setting up networks will do the same.
What won't sort itself out is the library
mauidan Wrote:
You have that rare gift of restating the obvious.
Have you ever done any electronic work inside the box or do you
just quote what others say?
Nothing like stating the obvious to rile some people.
The point was that high-end companies rely on silicon designed for
larger
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