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| Music streamer with no DAC and no storage? Top notch streamer without a DAC is simply a renderer like the Interchange:https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=156409.0 The Interchange interfaces with Ethernet and delivers data with 10psec of jitter at the end of a 4 foot S/PDIF cable, l... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Steve, what means "HDMI is not hi-res"? HDMI 1.3 by its spec is a Dolby TrueHD / DTS-HD Master Audio bitstream compatible if devices support it. And even if we suggest that HDMI doesn't pass a bitstream hi-res signal, but using it instead of ATV's... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Since adding the Benchmark Dac, I really enjoy the added detail but it seems to be a little brash in my system or at least to what I’m used to. Would the synchro mesh mellow it out a little? Or am I better off getting a more laid back dac? If so... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Why do you say FLAC will never sound as good as WAV? My understanding is FLAC is 100% lossless. If a device were to decompress the FLAC input and place into a memory buffer which then feeds a DAC, shouldn't FLAC sound as good?FLAC and wav contain ... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming My question is do the streaming companies buy the tracks from the record companies directly, and if they do is it via hard drive transfer or software?Or is there a distributor (middle man?)It probably depends on the company, but I would bet that 9... | |
| Sonos and iTunes Why don't you stream from Amazon Prime? SQ is excellent and no DRM. | |
| Sonos and iTunes Sonos Connect has very high jitter to be feeding to a DAC:https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154310.0 Synchro-Mesh can reduce this to 7psec, lower than ANY CD transport. You want Sonos to sound better than a CD player? The Synchro-Mesh c... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming You can stream them from the site and then purchase in most forms, CD, SACD, DSD and downloads from Bluecoastrecords.comFrom HDTracks, it depends on the artist. All downloads and some 24/96, others 24/192 and you can select .wav or FLAC or DSD and... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Edit DeleteJust to get back to the original post of this thread for a moment.Does anyone know what source is being used for streaming tracks?Do record companies allow their master tapes to be used?The source used depends on the streaming service.... | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? And the only way that I may try is a Synrcho-Mesh for low jitter, but nothing will make it as good as HDMI/optical, because the lower a bandwidth/upsampling still be presented.HDMI is not hi-res, but Toslink can be depending on the source. Not su... | |
| USB to SPIDIF converter for MAC To do native DSD with a converter, you need to feed the DAC with I2S and it needs to know what to do with DSD on I2S.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I am not a fan of software solutions for room correction other than maybe minimizing unwanted bass resonances. There is no substitute for good speaker selection based on polar response and then optimized placement of those speakers in the room, as... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming An excellent selling point for headphones.I would listen to headphones more, but they just don't deliver on the imaging and 3-D space of real audio. Having the performer in your head instead of in front of you is just not natural and most cross-fi... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I agree that practically every device on the market can benefit from mods. Empirical Audio modded 40 different components for about 10 years. Very lucrative business and lots of happy customers. However, I got to the point that I could not get ... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming My streamed movies from VUDU are identical to the same played from a Blu-Ray disk. VUDU is better.Steve N. |