Hi mg2c! The noise which you are refering to - and which is clearly visible in your FFT graphs - IS indeed the DSD (noise-shaped) noise inherent in every DSD recording (the level may be vary a bit, depending on how loud the DSD master was transfered). So, this is nothing unusual, and that is...

Hi shamu144! Jitter isn`t a problem as long you keep the data in the (original - speek no SRC`d) form. The only problem could arise if the jitter gets too high, so that the receiver (soundcard) couldn`t cope with it. Then you will have glitches, which might be audibly. I also use a vanity...

Congrats to wavoman, that you finally made it happen ... (and to emmodad of course - for his contributions on that case) Now, would it be possible to record a snippet from one of your SACDs to a FLAV or WavPack file and post it for download, so that we could listen and see for ourselfes how...

Hmmm, interesting product. But this "DSD" logo leaves me puzzled too. Maybe they are refering to a PCM to DSD conversion, letting the DAC chips work in DSD mode? As it is used by dCS and Esoteric ... ? We will see ... Greetz Harald

Great! The link has still worked. THX!

Hi Wavoman! Do you own a (good quality) "soundcard/audiointerface" and some dedicated software (i.e. audacity)? you then might be able to use the meters in the software to adjust the analogue levels of your DAC1. This might not be 100% perfect (as it would be with a multimeter and the...

@ BigTony: You would need something like this: Gefen Inc. - HDMI to DVI Audio Adapter Mayby there is a source in the UK where you could get one for testing? If I only knew if this would really work ... Cheers Harald

Hi! Good idea to go for it and check if this would really work. There seems no evidence that these splitters really allow Highrez stripped off the HDMI stream. just to add ..., you might need be a display with HDMI/HDCP compliancy, so that there really is a HDCP handshake going on ...

Quote: Originally Posted by wavoman This is very smart IMHO ... I hear no diff between the 88.2 LPCM version on the hard drive and the original SACD (as I said earlier in this thread). Therefore, rip everything! Yepp. To me it is also "good enough" for my purpose. I don`t own a...

Hi! Quote: Originally Posted by wavoman It's a Wadia 781i. I should do the FFT ... haven't yet. I'll wait until I get my Denon/AudioPraise CDP from the modder (Kyle, hurry up already!) and then will really do a serious comparison between the two downsamplers. OK, seems that I...

Quote: Originally Posted by wavoman My Wadia CDP is one of the few that will downsample SACD 2-channel DSD and output an LPCM bitstream on an S/PDIF (coax) connection. It is at 88.2. Ahhhh.. Would you mind telling what Wadia player that is? I use (also) a modiefied Pioneer...

Quote: Originally Posted by moo Thanks for all your replies, I really do appreciate it. Synfreak, I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to when you mention "ASIO drivers in your playersoftware" how would I go about getting these drivers? Hi! What software are you using...

Hi! If you want to use the digital in/outs of the 0404USB, you need to use the ASIO drivers in your playersoftware. There is no other way to access the digital in/outs. Cheers Harald

Hi! I´ve had the same problem as I started to rip my CD collection using EAC. Everytime I tried to edit the Tags with MP3TAG and then loaded the files in Foobar, the Tags seemed to have gone lost ... I tooked some time (and googling) to find out what might had been the failure. Since...

Hi! This, and the HDCD decoding probs, are the most bothering things you might come across when you start to archieve/rip a big CD collection ... I really hope that spoon is implementing a good de-emphasis plugin into dbpoweramp soon (as he did with the HDCD decoder). That would help to...