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In Reply to: RE: Server to DAC interface is a total CLUSTER-F**K posted by Jay Buridan on November 07, 2015 at 14:06:38
"Server to DAC interface is a total CLUSTER-F**K" Doesn't have to be. The easiest way is simply a usb cable from server to dac. All the other stuff are just tweaks to improve the sound but you don't have to do that. Running a program like Tidal from computer to dac gives you huge amounts of music in really excellent sound.
Alan
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Simply running a USB cable from the Antipodes to my DAC provides very good sound. I am just trying stuff and was curious what others have experienced with these relatively inexpensive tweeks. Ok, the Totaldac USB cable cost a few bucks but the REGEN at $175 and two Jitterbugs at $100 for the pair is not too much. I had the ifi filter from when I was using a full ifi power + filter + cable set-up.
My experience is that the REGEN is the star here. The Totaldac USB cable is nice too. The jitterbugs may be doing something but nowhere near the improvement of the REGEN. I added the ifi filter for kicks. Throwing it all together and getting the best sound I have heard from computer audio was a very pleasant surprise. All in all, I am quite pleased with the computer source set-up. Sonically, it has come a long way from my first Mac mini to a DAC.
Regenerating an inconsistent and noisey signal from varying quality USB buses is a good idea IMO. I think that it wouldn't be unfair to say that there could be a big difference between the USB audio signal/CODEC and it's practical implementation of the computer/source's USB bus.
To me, it also makes sense that the specially built USB audio PCI card from SoTM that's available, and OEM in the Auriliti PK70, - would perhaps reduce the need for the Jitterbug or the Regen.
There are a lot of great ideas going around right now. IMO, - the Regen has been so great for high end audio playback, - to me, - it's blatant proof that one way or another, a more specialized and single purpose network enabled player is the best way to go.
Cheers,
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
I also use 2 Jitterbugs , a Regen and a Lightspeed 10g USB cable. The biggest improvement in sound was going from my Metrum Hex to The Audio-GD Master 7 Dac
Alan
I went from the Hex to the Pavane and found that to be an improvement. What do you hear with the Audio-GD that you like more than the Hex?
The Hex was great but the Audio-GD presents music in a way that it is easy to forget you are listening to a recording. It has more resolution then the Hex and greater dynamics both micro and macro. I could have easily made the Hex my last dac but the Master 7 is at another level
Alan
You just described what I heard going from the Hex to the Pavane.
I would like to hear the Audio-GD sometime.
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