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High Quality Music Server / CD player 6573 
Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. 6573 
Inconveniences of music servers 6572 
Am I missing something? 6572 
Data in = Data out 6571 
A perfect copy? 6571 
CDP vs HDD 6570 
Perhaps your hardware is different... 6570 
Get ripped & clocked 6569 
Quality & Quantity of Music...Oxymorons...Fibre Optics 6568 
Don't necessarily trust your soundcard/interface... 6560 
Bypass that sound card! 6558 
Look both ways 6558 
Is USB the solution? 6558 
Bypass that sound card? The Cosecant DAC? 6558 
The Cosecant correction. 6558 
Has anyone tried the 24/192 Benchmark DAC Pre? 6558 
Probably, maybe, yes 6557 
Benchmarking 6557 
USB or do not USB? 6557 
OK, some bobber really of USB. 6553 
An audiophile grade server: The Linux Solution 6487 
The Linux and a slightly misleading point of 6487 
The digital audio future... 6487 
Lynix vs. Windows files playing. 6486 
Timing is everything 6485 
The Asynchronously gifted Wavelength Audio DAC's 6485 
The problem that I have with idea of USB DACing. 6485 
The TDA1543 and the NOS sound 6485 
Of TDA DAC chips and such 6484 
Méfiez-vous... 6484 
Newer NOS DAC chips??? 6484 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6478 
Noise? Go optical... 6478 
Of the vaguest specifications but, of course, the best intentions... 6478 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6478 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6478 
The tongue was firmly planted in cheek. 6478 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6478 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6478 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6477 
Beyond the transport 6477 
The media is the bitch. 6477 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6477 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6477 
Idea... 6477 
Come on!!! 6477 
Idea... 6477 
MAC airport Express 6477 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6477 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6477 
How to slow the CD readers. 6475 
Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio 6475 
Putting the proper spin on it 6474 
Extracting data from a CD 6410 
Ten Questions about Computer Audio 6410 
I disagree with Charles Hansen 6410 
EAC, Mr. Hansen etc. 6410 
Ripping and playback software is important 6409 
External power supply for DAW 6373 
The sonically approved computer powers supply? 6373 
Commonality of power 6371 
Home brewed power supply for music server 6371 
I think it is different. 6371 
The people who have to do it must do it. 6371 
Best sounding version of iTunes 6298 
"Official Response" 6298 
A music player for iTunes 6297 
Dem in Munich 6297 
Amarra; I'll try it the day afta tomarra 6297 
Must have been convincing 6297 
Markus Hi 6297 
Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ 6297 
Jessie 6297 
Thanks for the reply 6297 
Computer transport 6296 
The interface is the culprit 6296 
Music servers pop like mushrooms 6296 
The main cause of the inferior performance... 6296 
PC grounding. 6295 
Interfaces, interfaces 6295 
Isolating a computer 6295 
HDD sound vs CDP sound & NOS DACs 6295 
NOS -> Acronym 6295 
Not vintage 6295 
NOS and filterless 6295 
The PC interface 6293 
The "custom-built" by dealers audio computers. 6287 
Weiss AFI1 joined the Interface Club 6275 
More about the AFI1 6275 
The power supply in DAWs 6275 
AFI1 now works 'properly' in dual-wire mode 6157 
Good for Weiss! 6157 
The sounds of silence; continued 6052 
What is ST? 3712 
Lavry Digital wiki 3712 
Optimal Sample Rate. 3712 
Perfect or good 3712 
CD ripping 3712 
Less is more 3711 
USB 2.0 3706 
Computer Audio 3696 
Who cares what they think? 3695 
This is objective not subjective 3694 
If we are Rating, what are we rating? 3694 
USB 3693 
Computer/usb, cd transport/spdif 3692 
CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha USB 3639 
Sure, but I doubt that anyone need to care about results besides you. 3639 
Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core -> Apple USB Driver -> Gordon USB Code (Berkeley) -> SPDIF -> DAC 3638 
CEC TL0X Berkeley USB to S/PDIF 3633 
Some updates 3555 
Computer vs TL0 3555 
Compress dynamic 3554 
My revision 3550 
BBB 3518 
Cd transport vs. computer 3496 
Very much opposite. 3494 
Re "The media is the bitch." 3494 
So many variables. 3494 
Custom MOBO. 3494 
Nope, it was not me. 3494 
A mistake then. 3494 
Musica Pristina. 3494 
Aurender N10 3493 
What is the problem with N10? 3493 
Musica Pristina 2. 3493 
N10 3493 
Please, elaborate. 3492 
N10 Review 3492 
Linux ALSA 3482 
OSS. 3482 
Alix2d2 3478 
Audiophile Linux. 3478 
Runeaudio 3478 
Rune Audio are just tweaks. 3478 
Runeaudio 3478 
Optimizations 3477 
NetBSD 3477 
The locus of intervention 3476 
There are other reasons. 3476 
Flac is not bit-perfect 3474 
Flac is just a contender. 3473 
Flac is bit-perfect 3440 
Anything add something to the total load of the pr... 3440 
Mpd config 3440 
The current mpd version is 0.20.6! 3440 
New MPD is written by C++ 3440 
Load. 3440 
Mpd config script 3440 
Is there any good digital designer? 3430 
More moronic blah blah? 3430 
Haha :-))) 3429 
Looking for a good external Power Supply 3426 
Simple and cheap 3426 
Purepower 3000 is on the way 3426 
Isolation is everything 3426 
PC Audio 3078 
Toslink might help 3056 
I dont think about it 3056 
AES67 3020 
Can you burn CD from Spotify? 2993 
Burn Spotify to CD 2964 
Dbpoweramp Ripping vary by different reading passes 2926 
Accuracy 2926 
EAC, CD/DVD drive 2926 
Computer audio does not sound good 1574 
"Correcting" Audio Problems 1574 
Digital recording/mixing/mastering 1573 
At What Point Does Corruption Occur? 1573 
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