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Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it. Computer playback has no unified standard and no reference in virtual world. If a person uses some...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it.[/quote] Agreed.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... there are zillion valuabl...
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Yes Romy, this is exactly my finding. Take an a to d transfer, vinyl rip, if you will, and listen to it on the computer via usb to dac. Then, take the same, preferably wav file, transfer it to disc and listen on cd transport. My experience is fil...
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it seems the computer audio problem is not bit errors and even correct bit-perfect digital data (from computer) does not give us good sound.
the wadax new server (computer) does not use digital processing and it onl...
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I have a standalone duplicator and the copies almost always outperform the originals -- and they are never worse.But I have heard computer-made copies that are okay, so...cj...
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Playing back music by streaming signal from computer has become super fashionable among audio people. Everyone seems do it nowadays but the more they do the more I do not appreciate what theses audio people do. I have quite well documented record to ...
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My journey with computer audio offers me reason to be optimistic. I think it is like everything else in the audio chain. Everything counts. Keep it as simple as possible. The power for every consumer is important. Keep the number of parts and transfo...
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Recently I tested the waters of computer audio. I've been using a Sony SCD-1 transport / Museatex Bidat DAC combo for digital playback. It has been a source of enjoyment for years. My goals for trying network-based music files were:- reduce physic...
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https://www.audialonline.com/topics/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/wavelength2/brick_2.html
both J Gordon Rankin and Pedja RogicBelieve the properly implemented USB is better than SPDIF. ...
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I think the comparison of usb and spdif is usually, although we don't seem to acknowledge it, actually means computer/usb, cd transport/spdif. In which case, in my experience, the latter seems to win out. Even implementing the wasapi or asio there ...
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Hi Romy, IMO, the reason for you to get that feeling is that from the beginning they were made to read data and not audio, thus some jitter was (and is) not considered an issue, as soon as it can be corrected.The internal CD drive audio o...
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[quote user="jp"]I was looking into the power supply situation with my DAW and was wondering what viable options exist out there. Currently, I am using an internal 600w pc power and cooling unit. Apparently there arent many out there.&nbs...
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Hi Currawong, thanks for sharing your experiences.My own computer playback journey goes back some 9-10 years ago when I started using a MOTU 896HD to interface a PC to my then Esoteric D70 DAC. And in the passing time the one thing I've learned about...
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New review by the computer audiophile at http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/599-berkeley-audio-design-alpha-dac-reference-series-review/The review is what it is. There is a lot of history behind the company and it appears to be a site sponsor....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yes, the enclosure something like this, thanks for tip, miab, but it opens a door for desire more. A good box with fanless operation, 1920 x 1200 pixels touch-screen, 6 hard-drives, remoter control, $650 price tag is...
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A few years ago, hearing Romy's amazing FM recordings, the computer seemed a necessity. So now it is here, and it blesses and seduces.Jumping around playlists is sometimes a lot of fun. Quick comparisons and sudden thrills, and newness. Along with...
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Amir wrote:I bet you hear good sound even better than over 50k$ transports. our last test was CEC TL0-X vs my Berkeley , they sounded very similar.
This idea was not shared among everybody pr...
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Romy,
I've been storing all my digital music on a computer located fairly far
from the audio system for quite some time now. You've brought up a few
issues that are worth discussing.
1) Storing the digital stream - I assume you mean either (...
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Telstar wrote: Not really: it is not true 24 bit. But it should be quite good, exp for the HDCD decode. I have always had a like for hdcds, they sounded better in my old rotel and they sound better even without a hdcd-capable dac.
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Oh I was thinking about FLAC, such as the ones from Linn Records, not raw WAVE files.
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Might be the new Berkley DAC would do it for you.http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=6382[/quote]Not really: it is ...
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Here is an excellent article in Positive Feedback by Dave Clark about the current options in the fields of Computer Audio
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue41/ca_intro.htm
Dave interviewed 13 designers with surprisingly reasonable questions. I ...
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[quote user="scooter"]* Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audiophile CD player w...
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[quote user="tuga"]Telstar, what do you think would be the most efficient way to ground a computer? Would this affect performance as much as it does any other audio component? Cheers, Tuga[/quote] Not grounding it? ;) Seriously, there's people that f...
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Heres an interesting take on RIAA http://www.channld.com/pure-vinyl.html...
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Playing back music by streaming signal from computer has become super fashionable among audio people. Everyone seems do it nowadays but the more they do the more I do not appreciate what theses audio people do. I have quite well documented record to ...
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I think the comparison of usb and spdif is usually, although we don't seem to acknowledge it, actually means computer/usb, cd transport/spdif. In which case, in my experience, the latter seems to win out. Even implementing the wasapi or asio there ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Be advised that any pro-computer playback in this there will be objected...[/quote]OK, I'll bear this in mind...I think computer playback is fraught with issues. Even a simple thing like the type of hard-drive used affects ...
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it seems even Thorsten do not believe computer source could be perfect and he just guide us to reach max from computer."
The computer is a great music server but also a source of jitter ...
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[quote user="manisandher"]fiogf49gjkf0dHere's a computer playback approach that I though people might be interested in. In many ways, it's pretty much the leading edge of computer playback as far as I know.The idea here is to isolate the DAC as much ...
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[quote user="alexd"]As far as Music Server goes, the single board computer with linear power supply or battery supply is correct approach, I was talking about MAC or PC.[/quote]As long as you isolate the signal that goes to the dac from the noise of ...
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