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High Quality Music Server / CD player 6558 
Let keep eyes on the ball. Define what the ball is. 6558 
Inconveniences of music servers 6557 
Am I missing something? 6557 
Data in = Data out 6556 
A perfect copy? 6556 
CDP vs HDD 6555 
Perhaps your hardware is different... 6555 
Get ripped & clocked 6554 
Quality & Quantity of Music...Oxymorons...Fibre Optics 6553 
Don't necessarily trust your soundcard/interface... 6545 
Bypass that sound card! 6543 
Look both ways 6543 
Is USB the solution? 6543 
Bypass that sound card? The Cosecant DAC? 6543 
The Cosecant correction. 6543 
Has anyone tried the 24/192 Benchmark DAC Pre? 6543 
Probably, maybe, yes 6542 
Benchmarking 6542 
USB or do not USB? 6542 
OK, some bobber really of USB. 6538 
An audiophile grade server: The Linux Solution 6472 
The Linux and a slightly misleading point of 6472 
The digital audio future... 6472 
Lynix vs. Windows files playing. 6471 
Timing is everything 6470 
The Asynchronously gifted Wavelength Audio DAC's 6470 
The problem that I have with idea of USB DACing. 6470 
The TDA1543 and the NOS sound 6470 
Of TDA DAC chips and such 6469 
Méfiez-vous... 6469 
Newer NOS DAC chips??? 6469 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6463 
Noise? Go optical... 6463 
Of the vaguest specifications but, of course, the best intentions... 6463 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6463 
High Quality Music Server / CD player 6463 
The tongue was firmly planted in cheek. 6463 
The problems in the DAW's switching PS? 6463 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6463 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6462 
Beyond the transport 6462 
The media is the bitch. 6462 
NOS and the highest quality Red Book reproduction 6462 
Yes and no. Still, it does not answer the question and PS. 6462 
Idea... 6462 
Come on!!! 6462 
Idea... 6462 
MAC airport Express 6462 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6462 
Saying it, I do aknowledge and understand... 6462 
How to slow the CD readers. 6460 
Computer CD readers were made to read data and not audio 6460 
Putting the proper spin on it 6459 
Extracting data from a CD 6395 
Ten Questions about Computer Audio 6395 
I disagree with Charles Hansen 6395 
EAC, Mr. Hansen etc. 6395 
Ripping and playback software is important 6394 
External power supply for DAW 6358 
The sonically approved computer powers supply? 6358 
Commonality of power 6356 
Home brewed power supply for music server 6356 
I think it is different. 6356 
The people who have to do it must do it. 6356 
Best sounding version of iTunes 6283 
"Official Response" 6283 
A music player for iTunes 6282 
Dem in Munich 6282 
Amarra; I'll try it the day afta tomarra 6282 
Must have been convincing 6282 
Markus Hi 6282 
Amarra : Supported Audio Formats and $ 6282 
Jessie 6282 
Thanks for the reply 6282 
Computer transport 6281 
The interface is the culprit 6281 
Music servers pop like mushrooms 6281 
The main cause of the inferior performance... 6281 
PC grounding. 6280 
Interfaces, interfaces 6280 
Isolating a computer 6280 
HDD sound vs CDP sound & NOS DACs 6280 
NOS -> Acronym 6280 
Not vintage 6280 
NOS and filterless 6280 
The PC interface 6278 
The "custom-built" by dealers audio computers. 6272 
Weiss AFI1 joined the Interface Club 6260 
More about the AFI1 6260 
The power supply in DAWs 6260 
AFI1 now works 'properly' in dual-wire mode 6142 
Good for Weiss! 6142 
The sounds of silence; continued 6037 
What is ST? 3697 
Lavry Digital wiki 3697 
Optimal Sample Rate. 3697 
Perfect or good 3697 
CD ripping 3697 
Less is more 3696 
USB 2.0 3691 
Computer Audio 3681 
Who cares what they think? 3680 
This is objective not subjective 3679 
If we are Rating, what are we rating? 3679 
USB 3678 
Computer/usb, cd transport/spdif 3677 
CEC TL0X vs Berkeley Alpha USB 3624 
Sure, but I doubt that anyone need to care about results besides you. 3624 
Audio CD -> Rip PCM (AIFF) -> Roon Player -> Apple Core -> Apple USB Driver -> Gordon USB Code (Berkeley) -> SPDIF -> DAC 3623 
CEC TL0X Berkeley USB to S/PDIF 3618 
Some updates 3540 
Computer vs TL0 3540 
Compress dynamic 3539 
My revision 3535 
BBB 3503 
Cd transport vs. computer 3481 
Very much opposite. 3479 
Re "The media is the bitch." 3479 
So many variables. 3479 
Custom MOBO. 3479 
Nope, it was not me. 3479 
A mistake then. 3479 
Musica Pristina. 3479 
Aurender N10 3478 
What is the problem with N10? 3478 
Musica Pristina 2. 3478 
N10 3478 
Please, elaborate. 3477 
N10 Review 3477 
Linux ALSA 3467 
OSS. 3467 
Alix2d2 3463 
Audiophile Linux. 3463 
Runeaudio 3463 
Rune Audio are just tweaks. 3463 
Runeaudio 3463 
Optimizations 3462 
NetBSD 3462 
The locus of intervention 3461 
There are other reasons. 3461 
Flac is not bit-perfect 3459 
Flac is just a contender. 3458 
Flac is bit-perfect 3425 
Anything add something to the total load of the pr... 3425 
Mpd config 3425 
The current mpd version is 0.20.6! 3425 
New MPD is written by C++ 3425 
Load. 3425 
Mpd config script 3425 
Is there any good digital designer? 3415 
More moronic blah blah? 3415 
Haha :-))) 3414 
Looking for a good external Power Supply 3411 
Simple and cheap 3411 
Purepower 3000 is on the way 3411 
Isolation is everything 3411 
PC Audio 3063 
Toslink might help 3041 
I dont think about it 3041 
AES67 3005 
Can you burn CD from Spotify? 2978 
Burn Spotify to CD 2949 
Dbpoweramp Ripping vary by different reading passes 2911 
Accuracy 2911 
EAC, CD/DVD drive 2911 
Computer audio does not sound good 1559 
"Correcting" Audio Problems 1559 
Digital recording/mixing/mastering 1558 
At What Point Does Corruption Occur? 1558 
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