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  1. Hi alehel, I too have visited hifiklubben (sweden) several times... I am considering the M50 but its too much cash to throw just on a streamer+Server. Have you done any listeneing tests between the blusound+NAS combo vs M50? I believe the blusound also has an internal server inside so you can just plug in a Harddrive directly and still manage to use the control app...
  2. I have trouble understanding this. USB signal is digital (ie 0's and 1's) or in electrical terms, a high signal and a low signal. The risk, if the signal has noise is that a 0 is mistakenly read as 1. But if this noise was really significant, copying files from a computer to an external HD should make the copied file different than the original. This rarely (if ever) happens...unless there is extra handshaking going on. Additionally, a converter with clean power, and galvanic isolation of outputs (ie electric separation of inputs from outputs) will generate its own data signal (with its own clock) to the DAC. This means complete isolation of computer noise to the hifi-equipment.
  3. But if the Converter has its own clean power, and its digital outputs are galvanically isolated from the inputs, how does noise generated by computer AC Supply get into the Hifi equipment?
  4. Hello fellow nerds, I am thinking about purchasing the ifi-audio iusb. This $200 unit sits between the computer server (Mac-mini or CAPS) and the DAC or "SPDIF converter". It electronically separates the hifi-equipment by injecting its own "clean" +5V USB power, instead of the "dirty" one accompanied by the server USB output. My question is this: Would this unit do a similar job (or produce the same results) as the more expensive option of upgrading the computer power supply to a linear one? Since the iusb is isolating the computer noise, and the SPDIF converter is taking care of jitter, seems kinda redundant to upgrade the power supply on the computer side. Thanks
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