Best PC Audio at home yet

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Last night, I downloaded my upgrade to JPLAY 4.3 and decided to try it using the JPLAYmini minimalist approach (no GUI), rather than as a plugin to Foobar 2000 as I had with the earlier JPLAY versions. I have no way of telling whether it was the new release, skipping Foobar as a GUI, both, or something else, but it was the first time I felt content with PC Audio v. CD's v. vinyl. As the inmates like to say, the improvement was not subtle. Everything sounded more natural, at ease, coherent, naturally detailed, louder/tighter bass, and magical mids. Simply musical. The tracks played were Flecktones: "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo," Madeleine Peyroux "Standing on the Rooftop," Prince "Purple Rain," and Bette LaVette "Interpretations, The British Songbook." All CD's were ripped to Wave or uncompressed FLAC on Toshiba Portege R700 using dBpowereamp. The complete system last night was Toshiba Protege R700 (Intel Core i5, Windows 7) using JPLAYmini v. 4.3 > DH Labs USB cable > ART Legato USB to S/PDIF converter > ART BNC cable > AudioNote Kits DAC 4.1 Limited Edition > TRS Audio Silver Litz IC's > Emotive Sira preamp > Purenote Enhanced Paragon IC's > DIY VT25 Mono's > Purenote Alluvion speaker cables > DIY TQWT w/ Fertin 8" Ceramic Drivers.
"Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it." - Yogi Berra.

Cpwill

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Topic - Best PC Audio at home yet - Cpwill 11:15:55 09/23/12 (6)

RE: Best PC Audio at home yet - Pat O'B 07:16:21 10/27/12 (0)

Try Foobar GUI - Jon L 12:18:36 09/23/12 (4)

RE: Try Foobar GUI - Cpwill 13:04:16 09/23/12 (3)

RE: Try Foobar GUI - SBGK 11:55:10 09/24/12 (1)

RE: Try Foobar GUI - Cpwill 18:37:28 09/24/12 (0)

This makes perfect sense. GUI creates a lot of overhead. - carcass93 11:10:03 09/24/12 (0)

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