NewBuyer;564344 Wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Just wondering please, for any examples regarding your statements:
>
> - What are some sensitivity-decreasing techniques that also negatively
> impact sound quality?
> - What are some DACs have you modified to "turn off" such techniques
> and achieved bette
JohnSwenson;564328 Wrote:
> ...There are a number of techniques that can be used to decrease
> sensitivity to different sources which also negatively impact sound
> quality... I personally have modified several DACs using these
> techniques and sure enough, when the special techniques are turned
There is a feeling floating around the net that a DAC that is immune to
input variations is automatically the best there is. Unfortunately this
is not true. There are a number of techniques that can be used to
decrease sensitivity to different sources which also negatively impact
sound quality.
I found this thread while looking for an answer to my problem - I have a
Transported with no output signal, Analog or Digital. At one point I had
analog, but digital was dead. Tried the xilinx reset, and now both are
quiet.
The display says music is playing, but there is no activity on the
meter
This christmas I got a Caiman+ for my main setup
--
slate
Main: Duet -> Beresford Caiman -> Carver A-500x -> B&W 704
Office: Duet -> Technics SU-V50 -> Stax SR84 Pro
Server: Zotac IONITX-A, 4 GB, 1 TB WD EADS, Win7 w. 7.6 (SQLite)
Tied together by D-Link DIR-655, DGS-1008D
I have been using the transporter digital output into a Weiss Medea D/A
with superb results, very pleasing indeed.
The current money seems to be on the Alpha D/A, although it's such a
shame that the Levinson 390S couldn't handle the higher bitrates, I
loved that player!
Now experimenting with t
jbc;490836 Wrote:
> I'm currently feeding my Linn Unidisk SC a steady stream of flac files
> via toslink, and it works fine. The performance is - to my ears - on
> par with playing the original disks in the Unidisk. As an aside, a
> second squeezebox feeds an analog signal to an older Rotel/B&W
