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  1. Hi Chris, Thanks for your comment! You wil have to be a bit clearer here, I'm a french guy trying to get understood in english so you have to be a bit more to the point! :-) If I understand you correctly, the NAS/ALAC/DAC will sound better than the endorphin solution? My belief is that it will last longer that is for sure... Do the Berkeley DAC sound better than the MBL DAC that seems to be the reference in the field? Thanks
  2. Hi Bob, Well, I have an engineer background and specs are specs: on paper, the endorphin (no matter how good it looks) will produce music of lower quality than a 24/96 DAC. Now what you hear is another thing. But from what I hear, up to 25/192 DACs should sound equal if not better than the endorphin that is "stuck" to 16/44.1... I agree that it look better than any of the DACs on the market but fact of the matter is that I have 2 kids under 2 years old and all of this beauty (including my Pathos Logos amp) will be carefully lockes into a enclosed area: so nothing to show :-( So shortly, technically, I believe I will get better results with the NAS/ALAC/DAC solution than the CD solution, I just want to have people's opinion as my local Berkeley dealer always sells his DACs before they get in his shop... Cheers and thanks for your comment!
  3. Thanks Chris this helps a lot. I recall reading from you that it was possible that iTunes solve this problem shortly (this was back in 2008 comments) do you have an ETA on resolution as it stands? If I'm to use iTunes, I'm bonded to use ALAC format (or AIFF) are these file types supported by iTunes oris most of the stuff FLAC (as I'm starting, I don't want to make a file type mistake) The problem I have using a USB or firewire to a DAC is that it limits my DAC choices... All of them are using SPDIF and optical, I rather push information following this standard. As iTunes is free, I'll probably put it on the G4. Is there a difference with using a newer Mac Pro? I guess not... I have an old G4 sitting waiting to be used.. I raher use this. Finally, I read your rave review about the Berkeley DAC, as I wrote, I was going to buy a Pathos Endorphin - which is quite a CD player... how would this DAC compare to this player or to an audiophile type DAC (such as a MBL DAC that seems to be the audiophile refeence?) Thanks again!
  4. Hi guys, I'm new to this site and up to yesterday was going to replace my audiophile CD that dies on me by another one until I read some threads on this site explaining how to set-up an audiophilke music server. So thanks all. I have a question though. The set-up that seems to best suits my needs seems to be the following: NAS - Mac G4 - DAC - Amp using iTunes server on the NAS and an iPod Touch as a remote. Here are my questions: 1- I keep reading that Mac OS x seems to be the most transparent OS for audio files. Although there seems to be a problems for iTunes to automatically see if the file we are reading is 24/88, 24/192, 16/44.1, etc... What does this means in plain english? If I set iTunes to the highest possible rate, what will happen when it will read 16/44.1 files? Last thing I want to do is blast a speaker... 2- I also read that the only way to have a pure audiophile system is by putting a PCI card that allows 24/192 files to be read... As I understand it, ripping CDs will only provide me with 16/44.1. Are there any web sites that provides more quality versions of my music than my CD collection? Thanks a lot!
  5. Hi Chris,<br /> <br /> Thanks for your pompt response!<br /> <br /> So just to recap, a possible set-up would be to have a NAS containing all songs (I aleady have a Lynksis NAS which I believe would work wuite well), linked to a MAC that has iTunes. The Mac would be connected to the DAC through the PCI card able to produce 24bits/192htz quality and the DAC connected to my amp.<br /> <br /> I was in the process to buy a Pathos Endorphin (which I believe is one of the best CD payer I've heard...) I know CD is going down but I have a killer deal. I have a couple of questions:<br /> <br /> 1- My NAS is currently formatted to work with a windows PC, can I partition portions of it for my music server?<br /> <br /> 2- This Berkeley DAC, have you ever had the chance to compare it to a MBL DAC or the Endorphin? (my dealer keeps talking to me about the Berkeley but kees selling them before they are able to unpack them in the shop<br /> <br /> 3- Is it still true that the PC card that can produce 24/192 can only be plugged into a Mac Pro?<br /> <br /> 4- Has iTunes auto-sampling rate been solved (actually is this aproblem if I only use this for stereo Cds<br /> <br /> 5- How would this set-up compare to the audiophile music servers sold at crazy prices (such as the one sold by McIntosh?)<br /> <br /> Thanks again for your help!
  6. Hi guys,<br /> <br /> Really interesting post, I was on the verge of buying a cd player but this tread is changing my mind. Ideally, in my current set-up, I would need the PC to be in a different room than my audio system. Which is not a problem as far as connecting things goes.<br /> <br /> My question is in regards of the selection of songs in the Mac set-up? Do you have to have a computer screen? I'Ve also read the CA01 to CA04 set-up which I liked a lot - especially the fact that you could browse songs without requiring a monitor.<br /> <br /> Can anyone help me on this please?<br /> <br /> Thanks
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