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High Quality Music Server / CD player 6402 
Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. 6402 
Inconveniences of music servers 6401 
Am I missing something? 6401 
Data in = Data out 6400 
A perfect copy? 6400 
CDP vs HDD 6399 
Perhaps your hardware is different... 6399 
Get ripped & clocked 6398 
Quality & Quantity of Music...Oxymorons...Fibre Optics 6397 
Don't necessarily trust your soundcard/interface... 6389 
Bypass that sound card! 6387 
Look both ways 6387 
Is USB the solution? 6387 
Bypass that sound card? The Cosecant DAC? 6387 
The Cosecant correction. 6387 
Has anyone tried the 24/192 Benchmark DAC Pre? 6387 
Probably, maybe, yes 6386 
Benchmarking 6386 
USB or do not USB? 6386 
OK, some bobber really of USB. 6382 
An audiophile grade server: The Linux Solution 6316 
The Linux and a slightly misleading point of 6316 
The digital audio future... 6316 
Lynix vs. Windows files playing. 6315 
Timing is everything 6314 
The Asynchronously gifted Wavelength Audio DAC's 6314 
The problem that I have with idea of USB DACing. 6314 
The TDA1543 and the NOS sound 6314 
Of TDA DAC chips and such 6313 
Méfiez-vous... 6313 
Newer NOS DAC chips??? 6313 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6307 
Noise? Go optical... 6307 
Of the vaguest specifications but, of course, the best intentions... 6307 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6307 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6307 
The tongue was firmly planted in cheek. 6307 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6307 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6307 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6306 
Beyond the transport 6306 
The media is the bitch. 6306 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6306 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6306 
Idea... 6306 
Come on!!! 6306 
Idea... 6306 
MAC airport Express 6306 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6306 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6306 
How to slow the CD readers. 6304 
Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio 6304 
Putting the proper spin on it 6303 
Extracting data from a CD 6239 
Ten Questions about Computer Audio 6239 
I disagree with Charles Hansen 6239 
EAC, Mr. Hansen etc. 6239 
Ripping and playback software is important 6238 
External power supply for DAW 6202 
The sonically approved computer powers supply? 6202 
Commonality of power 6200 
Home brewed power supply for music server 6200 
I think it is different. 6200 
The people who have to do it must do it. 6200 
Best sounding version of iTunes 6127 
"Official Response" 6127 
A music player for iTunes 6126 
Dem in Munich 6126 
Amarra; I'll try it the day afta tomarra 6126 
Must have been convincing 6126 
Markus Hi 6126 
Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ 6126 
Jessie 6126 
Thanks for the reply 6126 
Computer transport 6125 
The interface is the culprit 6125 
Music servers pop like mushrooms 6125 
The main cause of the inferior performance... 6125 
PC grounding. 6124 
Interfaces, interfaces 6124 
Isolating a computer 6124 
HDD sound vs CDP sound & NOS DACs 6124 
NOS -> Acronym 6124 
Not vintage 6124 
NOS and filterless 6124 
The PC interface 6122 
The "custom-built" by dealers audio computers. 6116 
Weiss AFI1 joined the Interface Club 6104 
More about the AFI1 6104 
The power supply in DAWs 6104 
AFI1 now works 'properly' in dual-wire mode 5986 
Good for Weiss! 5986 
The sounds of silence; continued 5881 
What is ST? 3541 
Lavry Digital wiki 3541 
Optimal Sample Rate. 3541 
Perfect or good 3541 
CD ripping 3541 
Less is more 3540 
USB 2.0 3535 
Computer Audio 3525 
Who cares what they think? 3524 
This is objective not subjective 3523 
If we are Rating, what are we rating? 3523 
USB 3522 
Computer/usb, cd transport/spdif 3521 
CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha USB 3468 
Sure, but I doubt that anyone need to care about results besides you. 3468 
Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core -> Apple USB Driver -> Gordon USB Code (Berkeley) -> SPDIF -> DAC 3467 
CEC TL0X Berkeley USB to S/PDIF 3462 
Some updates 3384 
Computer vs TL0 3384 
Compress dynamic 3383 
My revision 3379 
BBB 3347 
Cd transport vs. computer 3325 
Very much opposite. 3323 
Re "The media is the bitch." 3323 
So many variables. 3323 
Custom MOBO. 3323 
Nope, it was not me. 3323 
A mistake then. 3323 
Musica Pristina. 3323 
Aurender N10 3322 
What is the problem with N10? 3322 
Musica Pristina 2. 3322 
N10 3322 
Please, elaborate. 3321 
N10 Review 3321 
Linux ALSA 3311 
OSS. 3311 
Alix2d2 3307 
Audiophile Linux. 3307 
Runeaudio 3307 
Rune Audio are just tweaks. 3307 
Runeaudio 3307 
Optimizations 3306 
NetBSD 3306 
The locus of intervention 3305 
There are other reasons. 3305 
Flac is not bit-perfect 3303 
Flac is just a contender. 3302 
Flac is bit-perfect 3269 
Anything add something to the total load of the pr... 3269 
Mpd config 3269 
The current mpd version is 0.20.6! 3269 
New MPD is written by C++ 3269 
Load. 3269 
Mpd config script 3269 
Is there any good digital designer? 3259 
More moronic blah blah? 3259 
Haha :-))) 3258 
Looking for a good external Power Supply 3255 
Simple and cheap 3255 
Purepower 3000 is on the way 3255 
Isolation is everything 3255 
PC Audio 2907 
Toslink might help 2885 
I dont think about it 2885 
AES67 2849 
Can you burn CD from Spotify? 2822 
Burn Spotify to CD 2793 
Dbpoweramp Ripping vary by different reading passes 2755 
Accuracy 2755 
EAC, CD/DVD drive 2755 
Computer audio does not sound good 1403 
"Correcting" Audio Problems 1403 
Digital recording/mixing/mastering 1402 
At What Point Does Corruption Occur? 1402 
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