blackstonejd
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| Squeze Box Question Assuming you use uncompressed or lossless audio files and you use error correction (built into iTunes or other software) you will probably get as good if not better results out of the Squeezebox than most CD transports. I found it to be a suitable... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock It is possible there is some licensing related explanation for this upsampling firmware thing, but I'm not sure what that is exactly. I suppose it is possible there are intellectual property issues at work here beyond dCS desire to simply charge m... | |
| Most intriguing DAC? Ayre QB-9 | |
| High Rez download then burn SACD By the way to avoid confusion, the device the plays back high-resolution files is called Transporter. The Squeezebox only plays back redbook files. At one time this was the best, most cost effective way to set up a music server but asynchronous US... | |
| High Rez download then burn SACD There is no SACD hard drive based solution I am aware of. I think that is because the SACD format is proprietary and uses encryption that prevents the files from being created from the discs.In my view there is not much indication that anything ot... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock Well I only know about from this thread. My reading of it above was that it is enabled through firmware. "License" means software, in my mind. Unit specific license means software.When I first heard about Puccinni/Paganini, the very first thing th... | |
| Ayre's new Minimum Phase filter I think their new USB QB-9 DAC with MP filter is the most exciting new product of 2009, although I haven't heard it yet. | |
| dCS Puccini Clock I think dCS is sort of a joke, at this point. I mean the prices for their products, as good as they are, are so disgustingly inflated now that they are basically the exclusive playthings for oil sheiks and other greedy corporate types. At a certai... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock It is gouging. | |
| dCS Puccini Clock What a bunch of nonsense. | |
| Exact Audio Copy Software See my thread. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1230454626&read&keyw&zzeacI was never able to confirm, audibly or through bit comparing, that EAC does a better job than say, iTunes with error correction. At one point I... | |
| ps audio perfect wave transport The defacto standard for all external DACs is going to be USB. Specifically, the asynchronous USB developed by Wavelength. In theory, this method of transfer introduces no more jitter than a single one box CD player design because the transport (c... | |
| Thinking of moving to a Headphone system, thoughts The new Sennheiser HD800 would probably fit the bill nicely, but they are expensive.I think the best budget system would be Computer/Laptop-->Asynchronous USB DAC-->Headphone Amp-->Sennheiser HD650 or HD 800. | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- your neighbors think Dire Straits actually rehearses in your apartment nightly. | |
| David Steven of dCS Has Passed Away : Very sad. According to his son, who has been the director of marketing for about a year, dCS will go on to release two new products in 2009 and at least one new product in 2010. |