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High Quality Music Server / CD player 6572 
Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. 6572 
Inconveniences of music servers 6571 
Am I missing something? 6571 
Data in = Data out 6570 
A perfect copy? 6570 
CDP vs HDD 6569 
Perhaps your hardware is different... 6569 
Get ripped & clocked 6568 
Quality & Quantity of Music...Oxymorons...Fibre Optics 6567 
Don't necessarily trust your soundcard/interface... 6559 
Bypass that sound card! 6557 
Look both ways 6557 
Is USB the solution? 6557 
Bypass that sound card? The Cosecant DAC? 6557 
The Cosecant correction. 6557 
Has anyone tried the 24/192 Benchmark DAC Pre? 6557 
Probably, maybe, yes 6556 
Benchmarking 6556 
USB or do not USB? 6556 
OK, some bobber really of USB. 6552 
An audiophile grade server: The Linux Solution 6486 
The Linux and a slightly misleading point of 6486 
The digital audio future... 6486 
Lynix vs. Windows files playing. 6485 
Timing is everything 6484 
The Asynchronously gifted Wavelength Audio DAC's 6484 
The problem that I have with idea of USB DACing. 6484 
The TDA1543 and the NOS sound 6484 
Of TDA DAC chips and such 6483 
Méfiez-vous... 6483 
Newer NOS DAC chips??? 6483 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6477 
Noise? Go optical... 6477 
Of the vaguest specifications but, of course, the best intentions... 6477 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6477 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6477 
The tongue was firmly planted in cheek. 6477 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6477 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6477 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6476 
Beyond the transport 6476 
The media is the bitch. 6476 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6476 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6476 
Idea... 6476 
Come on!!! 6476 
Idea... 6476 
MAC airport Express 6476 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6476 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6476 
How to slow the CD readers. 6474 
Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio 6474 
Putting the proper spin on it 6473 
Extracting data from a CD 6409 
Ten Questions about Computer Audio 6409 
I disagree with Charles Hansen 6409 
EAC, Mr. Hansen etc. 6409 
Ripping and playback software is important 6408 
External power supply for DAW 6372 
The sonically approved computer powers supply? 6372 
Commonality of power 6370 
Home brewed power supply for music server 6370 
I think it is different. 6370 
The people who have to do it must do it. 6370 
Best sounding version of iTunes 6297 
"Official Response" 6297 
A music player for iTunes 6296 
Dem in Munich 6296 
Amarra; I'll try it the day afta tomarra 6296 
Must have been convincing 6296 
Markus Hi 6296 
Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ 6296 
Jessie 6296 
Thanks for the reply 6296 
Computer transport 6295 
The interface is the culprit 6295 
Music servers pop like mushrooms 6295 
The main cause of the inferior performance... 6295 
PC grounding. 6294 
Interfaces, interfaces 6294 
Isolating a computer 6294 
HDD sound vs CDP sound & NOS DACs 6294 
NOS -> Acronym 6294 
Not vintage 6294 
NOS and filterless 6294 
The PC interface 6292 
The "custom-built" by dealers audio computers. 6286 
Weiss AFI1 joined the Interface Club 6274 
More about the AFI1 6274 
The power supply in DAWs 6274 
AFI1 now works 'properly' in dual-wire mode 6156 
Good for Weiss! 6156 
The sounds of silence; continued 6051 
What is ST? 3711 
Lavry Digital wiki 3711 
Optimal Sample Rate. 3711 
Perfect or good 3711 
CD ripping 3711 
Less is more 3710 
USB 2.0 3705 
Computer Audio 3695 
Who cares what they think? 3694 
This is objective not subjective 3693 
If we are Rating, what are we rating? 3693 
USB 3692 
Computer/usb, cd transport/spdif 3691 
CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha USB 3638 
Sure, but I doubt that anyone need to care about results besides you. 3638 
Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core -> Apple USB Driver -> Gordon USB Code (Berkeley) -> SPDIF -> DAC 3637 
CEC TL0X Berkeley USB to S/PDIF 3632 
Some updates 3554 
Computer vs TL0 3554 
Compress dynamic 3553 
My revision 3549 
BBB 3517 
Cd transport vs. computer 3495 
Very much opposite. 3493 
Re "The media is the bitch." 3493 
So many variables. 3493 
Custom MOBO. 3493 
Nope, it was not me. 3493 
A mistake then. 3493 
Musica Pristina. 3493 
Aurender N10 3492 
What is the problem with N10? 3492 
Musica Pristina 2. 3492 
N10 3492 
Please, elaborate. 3491 
N10 Review 3491 
Linux ALSA 3481 
OSS. 3481 
Alix2d2 3477 
Audiophile Linux. 3477 
Runeaudio 3477 
Rune Audio are just tweaks. 3477 
Runeaudio 3477 
Optimizations 3476 
NetBSD 3476 
The locus of intervention 3475 
There are other reasons. 3475 
Flac is not bit-perfect 3473 
Flac is just a contender. 3472 
Flac is bit-perfect 3439 
Anything add something to the total load of the pr... 3439 
Mpd config 3439 
The current mpd version is 0.20.6! 3439 
New MPD is written by C++ 3439 
Load. 3439 
Mpd config script 3439 
Is there any good digital designer? 3429 
More moronic blah blah? 3429 
Haha :-))) 3428 
Looking for a good external Power Supply 3425 
Simple and cheap 3425 
Purepower 3000 is on the way 3425 
Isolation is everything 3425 
PC Audio 3077 
Toslink might help 3055 
I dont think about it 3055 
AES67 3019 
Can you burn CD from Spotify? 2992 
Burn Spotify to CD 2963 
Dbpoweramp Ripping vary by different reading passes 2925 
Accuracy 2925 
EAC, CD/DVD drive 2925 
Computer audio does not sound good 1573 
"Correcting" Audio Problems 1573 
Digital recording/mixing/mastering 1572 
At What Point Does Corruption Occur? 1572 
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