Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
fsmithjack - If you are still using Jriver 19 to play local files, you can do a lot better. I use the free combination of Linn Kinsky/Minimserver/BubbleUPnP and it beats Roon, Twonky and Jriver by a mile. If you want to give this a try, I can give you more details. First download all three apps. I use it with my UPnP Ethernet renderer, the Interchange: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=156409.0 This renderer delivers 10psec of jitter at the end of a 4 foot coax cable. BTW, the Interchange outputs I2S on HDMI connector, compatible with PSAudio. Also, you are correct that USB is fundamentally flawed, however if you add this device, it is very close to the best Ethernet renderer (assuming that you are using good USB cables like Wireworld Platinum and a good quality XMOS isolated USB interface): https://sotm-usa.com/collections/sotm-ultra/products/copy-of-tx-usbultra-regenerator-1 Steve N. Empirical Audio |
Yes I agree the SOtM Ultra is a fantastic unit. I loved it and used it for a while. I was going to add their new clock but it’s expensive and I ended up selling it when I upgraded my Bricasti M1SE with the new built in Bricasti Ethernet Network Player and the great Linear Technology OCXO Ethernet Switch and their matching LPS. I do use Roon though as I love their EQ to tailor exact to my room. I use a super low power requirement server - the cheap but great sounding Small Green Computer sonicTransporter just to feed the Music files to my Bricasti controlled my Roon on my iPhone. I power it with the excellent Uptone Audio JS-2 LPS - it powers both my server and my modem. It has 2 rails. I had a purpose built, window based, low power fanless mini PC to serve up Roon and also powered by the JS-3 but this little low powered (10watt) sonicTransport is much better w s it only needs to send the music files nice and quit with a purpose built Linx based software set it is smoother and quieter then my windows solution. I tested a ZENeth server which was great but my little sonicTransporter unit out performed it. With the media player now being built in my Bricasti I just need to quietly serve it media files as simply and quietly as possible and this solution works as good as anything with the great Uptone JS-2 LPS. I would be interested in trying new software but if I had to go back to a windows based server to do I’m not sure it be an improvement. Incidentally, both my mini PC and the sonicTransporter and the ZENeth all use the same super low power required Celeron J1800 processor which has all the power needed for these Audio serving tasks but with nice low power, low noise. The lower the power better as long as it can perform it’s Music file serving task. My windows based mini PC would run hot - real hot and amazingly the sonicTransporter runs unreal cool. Almost can’t tell it on. The ZENith was sort of a waste as your paying for a really good media player and with my Bricasti handling those chores all I needed was to serve up the files and let the Bricasti do the rest. So the great media player in ZENinth went unused and why I didn’t buy it after testing it. Does this software you speak of need to be run of a PC in a set up like mine? Thanks for the info. |
