Rink111
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I have thought of two cards but cable switching and multiple amps sounds like a pain to me.. What is the advantage of having ur music on your computer?
Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer Well you should be with a nice rig like that. I like that you're using the rarely discussed but intriguing Delta DIO. 'bout the only upgrade for you is a lower-jitter soundcard for digital output, though I bet the M-Audio can't be too bad in that regard. |
Originally Posted by halcyon I don't think DAC1 necessarily even needs a lower jitter digital source. If you've read the Stereophile measurements, that cards jitter rejection capabilities are superior to anything I've seen on the market. John Atkinson seems to think so too. With that DAC1 one could even use EMU for digital output and not let the 1000ps jitter be a problem ![]() |
Originally Posted by Rink111 I have thought of two cards but cable switching and multiple amps sounds like a pain to me.. What is the advantage of having ur music on your computer? |
Originally Posted by Rink111 I have thought of two cards but cable switching and multiple amps sounds like a pain to me.. What is the advantage of having ur music on your computer? |
Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer Interesting, I thought once jitter had polluted the datastream that it was there to stay. |
Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer Isn't the EMU supposed to have very good digital outputs compared to other cards (not that I use the digital outputs anyways)? What are the jitter amounts for cards like the Lynx, RME, M-Audio, etc.? |
Originally Posted by halcyon However, if you can only have one, then, IMHO, rather take the DAC unit, because then you can be sure that most of the jitter is eliminated as close to the actual DAC chip as possible. |
Originally Posted by Rink111 So would you suggest level 8 flac for encoding? First you rip them from the cd as a wav file and then you convert those to flac to save about 10mb per song right? Will you get the same quality if you leave them in wav form? I could just get a huge hard drive and save a step. Thanks |