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I've found a few, just wondered if anyone has any experience. Its for a clients Bose Lifestyle turd so audiophile audio quality isn't the big issue, reliability and read error free is. Thanks in advance!
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So far my fav is at the link
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I recommend replacing the stock switching power supply that comes with a unit like that with a basic regulated linear power supply wall-wart priced around 6 bucks via eBay. I did such for a digital optical splitter/repeater and found it definitely sounded better than the stock switch mode PSU.
Cool, reliability and no read errors is most important. Its for a clients Bose Lifestyle.
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Ambery is the company I bought the digital optical splitter/repeater from. It's been a reliable and trouble-free device.
Here's the same product or similar to the coax to optical converter you pointed to, and the Ambery product costs several bucks less.
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I have a Grace Digital internet radio that is hooked up to my preamp. It has rca only outputs on the back of the radio. Would I get any sound benefit running the rca cables to an analog to digital converter and then run the coax or toslink output into my preamp?
I decided to go ahead and purchase an analog to digital converter box from J- Tech to see if it might improve the sound of the radio. I used a toslink cable to input into my McIntosh C2500 digital inputs. The total cost was around $35 so it was no great loss if it didn't pan out. When I fired everything up I did hear an improvement, so did my wife.
I listen to Classic FM from the UK. One of the female presenters always sounded like she was mumbling when she spoke. Now I can understand her. Not bad for a $35 investment.
I hooked up my turntable into an analogue to digital converter, then into my DAC, it sounded better too. Maybe the digital masked the unpleasantness. pretty cool, glad it worked for you.
what you propose is a waste. You can't make a low sampling rate station sound good. As you may have noticed the sampling rate and therefore the sound quality varies a lot between stations.
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My thought was to convert the analog to digital and then run it through the dac in my McIntosh preamp in order to get some change in sound quality. It was the only way I saw to get an improvement.
It won't improve.
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Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong. It wasn't like listening to high rez but there was an improvement I could hear. It only cost $35 to try it and I'm glad I did.
the signal will just be what is piped out of the rca outputs, I doubt it.
how's the Grace? sounds like a cool device.
I had my doubts that using an ADC might improve things but I thought I might ask.
I like the Grace radio. For $150 I get the benefit of tuning into thousands of stations I would normally never get. Sound quality varies, of course. The interface to setting up the radio is a bit funky but once you are sunk up to your dsl you are good to go.
I have had luck with J-Tech digital products, found also on Amazon.
I've used their HDMI to Digital audio out converter, very good.
Hi could you kindly provide the link for this product ?
Is there a HDMI pass-through ?
Do you mean that the spdif out of it is very good quality ?
I am really interested
Thanks a lot.
Kind regards,
bg
I have an older model of this one... this seems to be their newest product.
it does have an HDMI pass-through
Hi and thank you very much indeed for the kind and valuable reply
I will try one immediately.
Kind regards,
bg
cool, good luck with it. I was initially using it to get my Google Chromecast hooked up to my DAC so I can listen to Goolge Music services, now that I got a Sonos Connect it supports the same service, so I have to figure out what to do with it. I'm sure I'll find something to use it for, :)
Hi my idea is to try it with different sources with hdmi out.
I have several media players at hand and i am not sure that they are complete garbage ... maybe i will have a surprise.
I understand that hdmi outs can be quite jittery but the experiment is so cheap. Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
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