I spent a year trying to tweek out the best sound from my audio dedicated Mac mini but always felt there was a layer of "hash" separating me from the music. Bought an Aurender N100H with a Nordost USB cable and aaaaahhhhhh... Nirvana! Rest of my system is Classe Sigma SSP, Amp5, ProAc Response 5, MIT cables, LP12/Benz. In retrospect, I feel like I just wasted a year. It is that much better.
Getting good sound from MacBook via DAC.
Hello everyone,
I decided to go down the digital path and picked up a Bryston BDA-2. I hooked up an Audioquest USB 2 cable from my MacBook to the BDA-2 to play music from my Itunes and it sounds awful. What am I doing wrong? I tried playing with the sampling rates thru the MacBooks Audio Midi set-up but no help there. it sounds compressed, over extended bass, lack of detail and soundstage, just plain awful.
Ive been using the DAC with my Simaudio CD player with excellent results. I also have a WADIA 177 hooked thru the DAC for my IPod which sounds surprising good. I like the idea of using the MacBook and was thinking about getting a dedicated Mac Mini for music files.
I decided to go down the digital path and picked up a Bryston BDA-2. I hooked up an Audioquest USB 2 cable from my MacBook to the BDA-2 to play music from my Itunes and it sounds awful. What am I doing wrong? I tried playing with the sampling rates thru the MacBooks Audio Midi set-up but no help there. it sounds compressed, over extended bass, lack of detail and soundstage, just plain awful.
Ive been using the DAC with my Simaudio CD player with excellent results. I also have a WADIA 177 hooked thru the DAC for my IPod which sounds surprising good. I like the idea of using the MacBook and was thinking about getting a dedicated Mac Mini for music files.