Jitter's not relevant whilst the signal is in the digital domain
(providing it's not so large as to cause data transmission errors),
it's only relevant at the points where Analogue to Digital and Digital
to Analogue conversion takes place.
Using an external DAC (Benchmark or any other), usually
seanadams Wrote:
We do what we can (wrt power regulation and signal routing) to not make
it any worse once the signal is received, but obviously it can never be
as good as a local clock source.
Sean, I meant to ask if you employ anything ASRC or PLL based... This
is important to understand
ModMike Wrote:
I'm curious to know how this stacks against Patrick Dixon's SB2+, which
at least at a high level, seems similar in concept. As I know of it,
the SB2+ essentially replaces the major modules in the SB2 (power, DAC,
SPDIF), with some improved separate modules (the Jung/ALW super
Would there be an audible improvement??? If I wanted to re-rip my
collection using FLAC, what exactly would I need to do?
Thanks for the help.
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No, lossless is lossless so all else being equal no difference of audio
quality.
Things with slimserver you gain with FLAC is that the SB2/3 will
benefit from FLAC by allowing the decoding to happen on the SB thereby
reducing bandwidth by ~1/2 and allows you to FF and REW within a track.
Since
And no need to rerip - you should be able to transcode with something
like Foobar2000 or dbPowerAmp.
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radish
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JohnSwenson Wrote:
A number of people like to put damping material or little sand bags over
the crystal on their DACs, supposedly for vibration damping. I found
they primarily work by thermally insullating the parts, they get hot
faster and ultimately reach a higher temperature. Of course at
Anyone mentioned cable upgrades yet.
(Digi Coax, IC's, Speaker cable)
I've not tried playing with mains cables yet.
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Deaf Cat
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I was wondering what the status of this feature request was (see bug
1105). I know it's not really important, but it's been over a year
since we last posted about HDCD, and I was just curious if it is even
remotely on anyone's radar at the moment.
N
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Nikhil
Patrick Dixon Wrote:
IMO you should choose your DAC based on how it sounds in your system
rather than by its specification and marketing blurb: some people love
the Benchmark DAC, others prefer something different.
Quite agree, hadn't originally considered buying a CD player but the
Quad
I too voted for this feature request. Like others, this is not a big
deal but would certainly be the icing on my Squeezebox cake. I would
really like to hear all my King Crimson remasters in their full HDCD
glory! The thought of shelling out for a new HDCD amp or player for
half a dozen or so
This subject is something that I have been thinking about recently. The
reason is that I opwn an Arcam CD player that has the capability of
playing HDCD's. When a HDCD is playing in it an extra light comes on
to indicate the 20 bit sampling. Unfortunately to date I have only
found that I own
RalphO Wrote:
The interesting thing for this thread is that I prefer to play my SB3
through the DAC of the Arcam. When I play a HDCD that I have ripped,
the Arcam still detacts the 20 bit code and on comes the light. I
really did not expect that a ripped CD through the SB3 would do this.
Hello,
I'm new to this forum and this is my 1st post so forgive me if this has
been discussed before. I recently set up a ReadyNAS/SB3 wireless network
and uploaded my library (AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF). I'm hearing a
tick everytime a track begins EXCEPT with AIFF-formatted tracks. This
occurs
The problem is that Microsoft now owns the rights to HDCD and charges a
humongous fee to license it. They seem to have setup their fee
structure asuming its going to chip makers who would sell the decoding
chips to many different companies rather than as a software decoder to
one company.
If
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