JohnSwenson;579864 Wrote:
The C-media USB receivers are some of the worst ones ever made, their
sole redeeming feature is that they are dirt cheap. No wonder you like
the S/PDIF better.
John S.
Hi John, do you think the CM6631 would be a better choice?
I am now thinking of getting the
iPhone;577838 Wrote:
Do you already own one? If the answer is NO, stay away from USB DACs.
Use the Coax Digital out on the Touch!
If one just has to use a DAC with the Touch, use a DAC with Coax S/PDIF
input with the Touch.
With both Toslink and COAX S/PDIF output available on all late
The C-media USB receivers are some of the worst ones ever made, their
sole redeeming feature is that they are dirt cheap. No wonder you like
the S/PDIF better.
John S.
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This trick might work with the new Arcam RDac.
Also has asyncronous USB.
Any thoughts?
Just a thought as its a helluva lot cheaper than the Ayre!
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Gazjam;577810 Wrote:
This trick might work with the new Arcam RDac.
Also has asyncronous USB.
Any thoughts?
Just a thought as its a helluva lot cheaper than the Ayre!
Do you already own one? If the answer is NO, stay away from USB DACs.
Use the Coax Digital out on the Touch!
If one
iPhone;577838 Wrote:
Do you already own one? If the answer is NO, stay away from USB DACs.
Use the Coax Digital out on the Touch!
If one just has to use a DAC with the Touch, use a DAC with Coax S/PDIF
input with the Touch.
With both Toslink and COAX S/PDIF output available on all late
ralphpnj;577429 Wrote:
Using a Tact for room correction is definitely not an audiophile
approved configuration but since this is not the Audiophiles section
I guess that it is allowable and forgivable:)
Bull.
:-)
IF you've seen and heard what goes on in a recording/mastering studio
you'd
Phil Leigh;577596 Wrote:
Bull.
:-)
IF you've seen and heard what goes on in a recording/mastering studio
you'd appreciate just how crazy that statement is :-)
By your definition (?) , audiophiles are folks who masochistically
like listening to crap sound because their room messes up
Phil Leigh;577596 Wrote:
Bull.
:-)
IF you've seen and heard what goes on in a recording/mastering studio
you'd appreciate just how crazy that statement is :-)
By your definition (?) , audiophiles are folks who masochistically
like listening to crap sound because their room messes up
Kal Rubinson;577626 Wrote:
Amen. Many audiophiles are stuck with outdated assumptions and even the
definition of purist needs to be updated for the digital age.
Kal
Kal,
You are getting dangerously close to be outcast from the audiophile
community for heresy.
If the cable manufacturers
ralphpnj;577650 Wrote:
Kal,
You are getting dangerously close to be outcast from the audiophile
community for heresy.
If the cable manufacturers can't sell outrageously priced USB, CAT 5
and other digital cables what will happen to Stereophile's advertising
revenue stream?I might worry
Kal Rubinson;577671 Wrote:
I might worry if I believed my comments have a significant influence.
Kal
Okay Kal that does it - by not thinking that every audiophile hangs on
each of your written words you have violated one the of the most basic
of all audiophile laws - the infallibility of
ralphpnj;577275 Wrote:
I agree with iPhone. Maybe I somehow missed it but when did a USB
connection become the most desirable one? Last thing I recall was
reading about what big pain in the neck USB connections where and how
much better it was to transmit the data via a network connection,
adamdea;577296 Wrote:
..and KR saying in his touch review that via the USB out to
the ayre it gave the best digital 2 channel sound he had heard, I'm
guessing.But I didn't say that USB was the critical element. Some of it has
to
be due to the quality of the Ayre DAC. ;-)
Kal
ralphpnj;577384 Wrote:
However now I guess we're going a long round of posts claiming that
using the Touch with a USB connection is superior to using the SPDIF
connection. Oh well, have fun.
No, not from me.
I am using Touch with S/PDIF coax to my Tact, sounds very nice. I also
have a
OGS;577426 Wrote:
No, not from me.
I am using Touch with S/PDIF coax to my Tact, sounds very nice. I also
have a Music Streamer II+. This is a much better DAC than the one in
the Tact. When I get the Touch USB output to work with the Music
Streamer I'll have much better sound, with all the
ralphpnj;577429 Wrote:
Using a Tact for room correction is definitely not an audiophile
approved configuration but since this is not the Audiophiles section
I guess that it is allowable and forgivable:)
Oh I could just as well posted it in Audiophiles. I have not read any
definitive
OGS;577431 Wrote:
Oh I could just as well posted it in Audiophiles. I have not read any
definitive definitions of audiophile, but I doubt yours would
qualify. If you like to talk rubbish I'll leave you to it...
Funny I wasn't trying to talk rubbish rather I was trying to be
funny. Many
Kal Rubinson;577410 Wrote:
But I didn't say that USB was the critical element. Some of it has to
be due to the quality of the Ayre DAC. ;-)
Kal
Well quite. But then there is a reason why the ayre dac has a USB input
and a USB input only.
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adamdea;577465 Wrote:
Well quite. But then equally there is (as I recall) a reason why the
ayre dac has a USB input and a USB input only.
Sure there is:
To sell to all the audiophiles who have been led to believe that only
way to get music form their computer is via iTunes and a USB
Give me a day or two and I'll post the instructions. There are some
caveats, its NOT plug ang and play, if you make the file modification
to use a USB DAC you can't get output from any other output, it will
JUST play to the USB DAC. You also loose the UI sounds (beeps etc when
you touch the
iPhone;577089 Wrote:
I believe that John S has been able to get USB output. IIRC he said it
was going to take a hardware hack though if one wanted to disable the
Analog and Digital outputs though.
I still don't think it will be better then Coax Digital out though.
There are so many issues
JohnSwenson;577270 Wrote:
If you can live with these it works well.
John S.
Yes, certainly! I've tried to make this work with my Touch, but no
sucess... Does this include support for async USB mode?
ralphpnj and iPhone, have you actually listened to a Music
Streamer USB DAC, the
ralphpnj;577275 Wrote:
I agree with iPhone. Maybe I somehow missed it but when did a USB
connection become the most desirable one? Last thing I recall was
reading about what big pain in the neck USB connections where and how
much better it was to transmit the data via a network connection,
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