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TWEAKS for PC USB DAC SETUP

I’m wondering what others have done with their personal confusers & DACs using an USB interface.

I recently added more Bright Star iso nodes, small & large to see if some betterment could be had. I used the small ones under my USB HDD… and the large ones under the desktop…. MUCH IMPROVED!

Cleaner, clearer, and more discernable range articulation became evident.

I also use a PS Audio UPC 200 & Duet, for the desktop and some peripherals. That helps two ways… it makes the FILE playback better, and seems to aid the maind systems sonics too by helping to eliminate the influx of wall wart, printer, etc., from introducing artifacts to it.

Has anyone yet confirmed or dispelled the USB cable controversy?

With which USB cable are you running?

Anything you’ve done which has proven to exhibit audible enhancements to the overall sound waulity would be greatly appreciated to be disclosed here.
hdd format... ntfs, fat 32, Which RAID, etc.

Thanks very much.
blindjim
seekburk
126 posts
 
Ok i just went ahead and downloaded the J River Media Jukebox 12. It prompted me through some things and i think i made the right decisions but time will tell. But just imported all of the music files on my computer into it and am listening to it now and it sounds fantastic. I went into the drop down menu and selected 24 bit since my sound card is 24 bit so i hope that was the right decision? Sounds just fine and when i did hit the 24 bit it did seem to open up a bit for sure. And heck i am just listening to an Mp3 file and i never heard this file sound so good!

I'm sure i will have more to follow down the road and probably more questions..... hah!

thanks again Blindjim!
blindjim OP
3,092 posts
 
it does provide a startling sonic improvement for sure, and it doesn't seem to matter which file format either... mp3, WAVE, AAC, etc.
seekburk
126 posts
 
And also i am really liking the very USABLE effects section for some added ambience to live shows i have downloaded that are a tad dry.
The eq section is also very nice and usable as well for the same application (live downloaded shows) that seem to lack that certain something.
Very nice.

And the skins and visualizations are really great fun as well.

I am very pleased thus far for sure!

next step is for me to rip a cd and see how that works and to try and do all of that organizing.

A question though:

I am going to be looking into an external hard drive for more storage space as i want to put a substantial amount of my collection on there at somepoint. Will i just have to hook that up via the computers usb out and media jukebox will just recognize that or do i need to configure that somehow so that it will do so?
A little ignorant about that for sure as I have never attempted anything like that.

Things are definitely moving in the direction that i was hoping!

A big THANKS again!
mr_bill
347 posts
 
Jim,
Are you going straight USB out of your computer to the BC Dac 3?
I wonder if it is better to have JRiver upsample or just pass straight 16/44 to BC Dac 3 for the upsampling?
blindjim OP
3,092 posts
 
well Bill there's a catch with the BC D3 using USB... OR any of the other interfaces as well... It all has to be PCM info. via USB it has to be 16/44.1K. Period.

... and it's only 24/96 at best anyhow. No matter what.

So I use the ASIO for All driver as it does add to the overall.

Feeding the BC D3 24/96 would necessitate a PCI or USB SOUND CARD... kind of defeating the USB slot/aspect entirely.

In spite of the limitations, it's a mighty close call between the pc + D3 via USB, and the D3 + xa777 es. Mighty close. Definitely distictive diffs, one to the other, but I can sure live with things either way. CDP or PC.
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