Yep, "sparkle ... and lean bass..." are the mark of an unbroken-in piece of audio equipment.
Improving on the stream of a combined streamer dac
I recently (foolishly) compared the streamed sound of my Electrocompanient
ECM 1 Mk II to internally stored digital downloads on the same ( ie not stored in my Small Green Computer server). I was surprised how much better the downloaded files sounded. Perhaps, I was naive to think otherwise. So, I started looking at old audiogon threads to see if I could figure a quick and easy fix to up the sound of the streamer but found little that made sense or was affordable. My question is whether I should continue to search, or if I should take it for what its worth and just listen to the music. The rest of my digital front end: Small Green computer server, a Trendnet unmanaged switch and the ECM. I use a Luna Orange ethernet cable from switch to ECM and a Purist Audio cable to the SGC. Thanks for your advice and happy holidays to all.
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Your post was interesting. Now forgive me if this sounds like an inexact analogy. When USB became a popular interface it was quickly noticed that the asynchronous delivery-the music arriving in packets- was adversely affecting the sound due to timing errors. Essentially this was solved by machines storing the packets and then reclocking them. In fact there were CD players that would put about 10 seconds of music in a buffer before playing it, even before streaming dominated the landscape. Essentially what I see in your post is the buffering of streaming content. Am I off base here? |
@rivinyl what are your conclusions on the Boomslang? Any other changes since? |
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