re bars tilted up -   fat old men need bikes too. :-)

you can always buy a low cost cd or dvd player with a SPDIF out and run that to a dac.  I just think the RoMs in computers are surrounded by noisy electrons and such.

Bike Porn - Classic 2007 trek frame, dura ace. I love the classic lines. No bent carbon for me.

Koora looks like one happy pup

SRV

So I have a pioneer elite DVD,cd,sacd player hooked to my sumo preamp and Martin Logan's. it outputs two channel analog only from a SACD, hence the analog connection. I also have a micro mega mydac using the USB for the Mac and coax digital for the pioneer. I realized I could play a cd and...

Martin logan purity. Powered, run them right from the dac if you've got a volume control. It's all in the imaging and 'space' sound great low, but get loud if you need it with 200wpc. They were recently discontinued. Found a pair new for 1100usd

Oh, and my Mac is three years old as has the optical output

I've used the MacBook pro with both the toslink and the USB out to either a hrt musicstreamerII or a mydac. From there, either to my preamp, amp, and Martin Logans or to a matrix m stage headphone amp and my akg 701s. The optical connection couldn't handle the high speed output at 196k, but at...

Thanks you guys, this makes a lot of sense.   So unless Ive got a source of higher quality material (e.g. HDtracks), I can assume streaming audio or old crappy MP3 files can be done at the 44K rate.

and this is the source of a lot of my confusion.... does anyone really change settings in MIDI when they switch between files?   from micromega   To setup the computer go to Finder / Utilities / Audio MIDI setup. On the above example after selecting the appropriate peripheral «...

Ah yes units.... something a molecular biologist ought to remember...   I suppose what is confusing me is   a) what is the 'normal' bit depth and sampling frequency of internet streamed music? Does it matter if I listen through web browser or the spotify or mog app? For that matter, am I...

OK   Macbook Pro mydac, USB preamp, amp, ML speakers     Switch on back of mydac set to 2   at 192 set on the mac midi, I am hearing the occasional crackle. I believe it's because neither itunes nor MOG lets me do this.   at 96, everytihng seems fine.   In general, what...

I had mine at work plugged into the dock for my laptop, so it was powered at all times. It worked perfectly in terms of maintaining the connection. Recently moved it to a port on the laptop. Now when the computer restarts, the dac is often forgotten.     At home I had a MSII hooked up to...

Www.mog.com. Great fidelity with an outboard dac.