I have a Beresford TC-7520 DAC and the headamp in it drives my AKG K701
pretty good. Might be something to try.
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Daverz;500974 Wrote:
Why are you taking the time to yell at us? We are only audiophiles, for
FSM sake!
The thread has gone on for nearly 2 months now, and just keeps going
round in circles. And it goes round in circles for the same reason -
someone makes a claim and then fails to provide any
Stratmangler;501026 Wrote:
The thread has gone on for nearly 2 months now, and just keeps going
round in circles. And it goes round in circles for the same reason -
someone makes a claim and then fails to provide any proof. Any evidence
provided by other forum members that is contrary to the
For what it's worth, I don't even find it that distracting, unless the
noise level is really high. Analog noise is generally easy to ignore.
Maybe that's because I'm so used to vinyl, which is what I listen to
most of the time. I'd MUCH rather listen to an original pressing of some
old jazz
deadushka;500764 Wrote:
To Marco
I'll describe the whole chain of upgrades.
1) SqueezeBox (the one that looks like the bedside clock) - analogue
output directly into Parasound A21 power amp + a pair of NHT 2.5i.
Can't recall what version of server was running.
The sound - racey,
Stratmangler;501026 Wrote:
I also cannot hear any differences between wav and flac files. I have
played around unpacking flacs to wavs and packing wavs up to flacs and
listening to them - I'm buggered if I can detect any differences.
I haven't tried any such test, but I am puzzled why
If you want to hear incredible LPs, try to find some Direct-To-Disc
recordings. These are recorded live in the studio IN ONE TAKE, and the
microphone feed is sent directly to the cutting head of the LP master.
I had lots of D2D jazz LPs. Even had one released by Radio Shack on
red vinyl that
Yeah, those can sound great. But the selection of music is pretty
limited!
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rgheck
Transporter -- Pass Labs D1 -- Pass Labs Aleph 2s -- Thiel CS 1.6s
Transporter -- Adcom GDA-600 -- Pass Labs B1 (DIY) -- Adcom GFA-5800
-- Thiel CS 1.6s
Receiver -- T-Amp -- Monitor Audio Radius 90s
Receiver
If I have created a 24 bit aiff or wav file from a 24/96 flac file, will
Transporter play them at full resolution. I have this problem because I
use itunes on a Mac to manage my music and I have over time created
duplicate lossy compressed files for use on ipods. Therefore, if I just
tell Slim
darthkringle;499867 Wrote:
The CI AUDIO Dac was receiving the Optical, and the Arcam was receiving
the Spdif.
Thanks for any further thoughts.
Optical is S/PDIF as well as coax. Try listening a different way:
give yourself an entire week with the CIAudio using it's coax input.
Get a
rgheck;501235 Wrote:
More processing has to be done to decode the FLAC file than to play the
WAV, and it's easy to see in principle how that could lead to higher
jitter, even to signal-correlated jitter (the worst), or to various
sorts of nasties getting into the power supply, or who knows
rgheck;501235 Wrote:
it's easy to see in principle how that could lead to higher jitter, even
to signal-correlated jitter (the worst),
Since its easy, could you explain exactly how?
(Bear in mind that decoding of flac to wav is not at all related to
timing)
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bhaagensen
As a Grado headphone enthusiast myself, I found the SB3 headphone out
*very* underwhelming, as in, unacceptable. I got a Creek OBH-21 and even
got the upgraded power supply, which made it a hefty upgrade. They also
offer the OBH-11 and I am sure the regular power supply is entirely
sufficient to
bhaagensen;501405 Wrote:
Since its easy, could you explain exactly how?
(Bear in mind that decoding of flac to wav is not at all related to
timing.)
I wasn't talking about the decoding. I was talking about the digital
signal that is eventually passed to the DAC. There's jitter there, of
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