I meant the audio interface to your stereo, I was assuming that your computer is also connected to your stereo, but maybe I'm wrong.

What about adding isolation to the audio interface instead of the HDMI?

+1 on the Sony MDR-V6's. They sound great and are extremely durable. You can find them on ebay for around 70 bucks.

It sounds like a ground-loop problem. The EMU 0404 has it's own power-supply so it's probably not a power-noise issue. You could try getting an audio isolation transformer, like this one: The Source By Circuit City : Cables - RCA Audio - GROUND LOOP ISOLATOR ADAPTER But it will distort the...

I've had some success eliminating clicking and popping by connecting my USB DAC through a 2-port hub like this one: The Source By Circuit City : USB Hubs - NEXXTECH USB 2.0 2-PORT USB HUB Assuming you're using a USB 1.1 DAC Connected to a USB 2.0 port the hub's Transaction Translator (TT)...

Ah, yes, from the Dunn article I got the impression that Figure 9 was based on testing, but it's essentially a plot of Equation 1. I should have read it more closely. Thanks!

I haven't tried it so I'm not sure if it works, but if you're using Ubuntu you could try this: HOWTO Compile MPD With AAC/M4A Support on Ubuntu - James Andres's Tips & How-To's

Maybe the experiment in the Banjamin and Gannon paper you mentioned had jitter injected into a DAC pre-PLL, i.e. on the line and not the sampling clock?

Interesting stuff, one thing doesn't seem to add up though (or maybe I'm just missing something). Figure 9 of this AES article: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=re...A_DAC-swN1Id-g Seems to indicate that Deterministic Jitter (sinusoidal) above 3kHz is audible at amplitudes of less than 100ps...

You're absolutely right, if you can't hear the difference then it doesn't make a difference. I wasn't able to find the AES Study you (bigshot) mentioned, do you have a link for it? I did find this one which comes to a similar conclusion: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/26/1/50/_pdf...

Interesting topic heading, I thought I'd throw in my 2cents. Random jitter on the clock driving a DAC (or ADC) will raise noise floor by: (1) SNR = 20*log10(1/(2*pi*freq_signal*tjitter_rms)) The derivation for this equation is here: Analog Devices: Analog to Digital Converters: Tutorial...

I especially like the way it will run even without the GUI loaded. I'm not sure why more players don't use this model. I guess it takes some effort to setup, but that could be all automated. Sonata has the ability to do searches through your entire library based on Artists, Album, etc... I...

I use Ubuntu, it may be different on different distros but after I installed mpd I edited /etc/mpd.conf with: sudo nano /etc/mpd.conf to select an alternate output. There are a lot of helpful notes in the config file, but if you're using your default audio output you shouldn't have to change...

I've also bought some car audio stuff from them, they have great customer service.

I've had the same problem, my problem was because the files were encoded at different base volume levels. I don't have an iPod, but the player I do have (Creative Zen) has an automatic gain control (called automatic volume adjust or something like that). When I activated it it seemed to fix that...

Other -> Zunior.com No DRM, $8.88 per CD for 192kbit MP3 and $10.88 for FLAC, but they only offer music from Independent Canadian Artists so if you're not living in Canada there's a good chance you haven't heard many of them.

Thanks guys, I was cycling through all of the various Linux Players and had settled on Audacious but wasn't that happy with it (it's a real memory hog). After reading this thread I gave mpd with gimmix a look and haven't looked back.