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reading over the halide bridge site it sounds like Streamlength works only up to 96 kHz whereas the MD 'always' operates at at 192... im not sure the significance of this...?

(i posted this in general discussion, but thought it might be better placed here...) Anyone have thoughts about whether a halide bridge would benefit the DAC in my receiver... here's the description (I can find out whether it is asynchronous or not)... ".....the front end of the board driven by the CS8416 192kHz Digital Audio Receiver from CIRRUS Logic, capable of incredibly high performance standards... Further, we have taken special care to feed the I2S signal through only state of the art components, first through the PCM 2707 DAC chip, then the OPA 827 OP AMP, recognized by many in the field as the best available. And when combined with the Texas Instruments PCM1794, 200kHz current output Delta-Sigma over-sampling DAC for audio rendering and the SRC 4192 full-time upconverting/upsampling DSP, the signal is ALWAYS operating at 24 bit/192kHz, ensuring a perfectly clocked, incredibly accurate output that is virtually jitter-free."

Anyone have thoughts about whether a halide bridge would benefit the DAC in my receiver... here's the description (I can find out whether it is asynchronous or not)... ".....the front end of the board driven by the CS8416 192kHz Digital Audio Receiver from CIRRUS Logic, capable of incredibly high performance standards... Further, we have taken special care to feed the I2S signal through only state of the art components, first through the PCM 2707 DAC chip, then the OPA 827 OP AMP, recognized by many in the field as the best available. And when combined with the Texas Instruments PCM1794, 200kHz current output Delta-Sigma over-sampling DAC for audio rendering and the SRC 4192 full-time upconverting/upsampling DSP, the signal is ALWAYS operating at 24 bit/192kHz, ensuring a perfectly clocked, incredibly accurate output that is virtually jitter-free."

thanks for you input - much appreciated... what do you use to amp your jb3's and assume that this is your mail computer/nearfield listening speaker? also - what are the more expensive speakers that you DO hear a significant difference from?

thanks for everyones comments on the bel canto c5i and +/- of the halide bridge to go with my johnblue jb3's at an imac... much appreciated - it apears to be unneeded from what i can gather... so i am sitting down to listen to my main system, which is an apple airport express running via toslink to a magnum dynalab md209 receiver to a pair of (obscure) guru pro audio qm60's... i am currently streaming from my MBP... and as is typically i suddenly have some drop-out issues despite my computer being 20 feet from the AE and not having anything particularly intensive running in the background. from what i have read on this issue, few people have successful fully eliminated drop-outs from the AE... i had resigned myself to just wait for the rumored audiophile streaming future of AE to move up to 24 bit, if it happens, but i cannot deal with these drop outs... - has anyone successfully eliminated dropouts with the AE? - is the squeezebox more effective in eliminating this? i had read of various glitches on either amazon or on the logitech forum... anyone have such problems? i am wondering if i should just go with a squeezebox for now...

also... take note that this isnt 802.11n

although I prefer wheat beer. Im just learning about how these systems work with USB, but it sounds like the c5i is functionally asynchronous rather than adaptive... So that's good news. I do have a general question though... it's a mystery to me why the optical out would be any less jitter-prone than the USB output, although that appears to be implied in remarks above and in the primer... Isnt it just as influence by probelms with the computer being the master clock or is the signal handled in a substantially different way? Also - thanks for the note on the iMac... nice to hear that it has the toslink output - they dont describe it as an analog/digital output as they do on the MBP (I hope it didnt change for the latest iMac)...

Just looking for a few opinions... I am in the process of putting a nearfield system together - all new... a new iMac + johnblue jb3's + Bel Canto c5i... Everything is in the mail on its way. I am curious if it would be recommended to add a halide bridge with coaxial temination to this set-up? The Bel Canto states that it has a the "Two-Stage Master Reference Ultra-Clock™ circuitry" - however, I assume it is still an Adaptive mode USB connection, which from reading the primer still produces jitter. Any thoughts on this? I assume I can only go through the USB output on the iMac (the audio out does not appear to have an optical connection like on the MBP - or at least there no mention of one on the Apple webpage). Thanks HW

the switch from AIFF to ALAC create a new file? I am trying to copy all of my AIFFs to ALAC's in a separate library to be used with my iPod touch since it has a relatively small amount of storage (32 gig). Any rec's on going this as well as creating a different library? thanks

I just got a new Macbook Pro and an iPod touch and am planning on building my digital library. i am also planning on buying a wadai tranport for the ipod touch as well as a DAC for use with apple tv and iarport express and my stereo, which inclues merlin speakers and a magnum dynalab receiver. so my main question is: i am encoding my cd's in AIFF as i have a 500 gig HD on the laptop - plenty of room i would guess for my cd collection. Since i have the ipod touch (selected it b/c it can be a remote) the capacity is a bit low (32 gig), so i figured i would have a separate library of ALAC files. Is there any recommendations on this strategy - ie. how to have two libraries and how to go about switching all the AIFF files to ALAC. Or any other rec's for sorting this out??? Whatever input would be great. Also - I was planning on just buying a DAC magic to start, especially since it has two optical inputs and I was planning on using both a wadia transport and the apple tv or airport express. I know this is redundant - i just dont want to always have to fire up my computer to play songs. I know there are some mixed feelings about using the DACmagic... anybody doing using this? thanks