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  1. i think it is all coming together now. recently after we had this discussion on here, the main digital circuit board had to be replaced on my rotel receiver ($500 ouch), but now it sounds so much more alive than it used to before. i hear instruments that i didnt before, and i dont have to turn up the volume as much anymore either, for the same amount of loudness. so it seems like the board was already having issues, and sounding slightly muffled and then finally died completely after that. in a way i am glad it finally died, and i was able to get this resolution with the new board. now it all seems to make sense. thank you all for your input, all your suggestions made a difference as well!
  2. thanks Egon, lot of useful info. thats a very good point, i should try to find a way to make the Rotel do the mp3 decoding, i looked around but have not found a way to do that so far. i dont know if the cd player is sending it a raw mp3 stream or decoding it itself, and then sending pcm. the display on the Rotel shows the same as when playing pcm through the computer "44.1k", so not sure. it does seem like the bits are getting tinkered a number of times before finally ending up at the receiver - between the computer itself and the transit, and getting the mp3 stream from the file straight to the rotel, it seems, would surely bring about at least some improvement, if i can find a way to do that, if one exists. thanks for looking up the rotel manual, and for all the helpful suggetsions!
  3. i am running XP too i ran through the setup list for xp and winamp that you had pointed me to, and it seems to have made a good bit of difference, i also switched to direct sound instead of waveout. i tried to get ASIO to work with winamp, but was not able to, the meters would move but there would be no sound, and the play time would jump around much faster than normal i also tried to get kernel streaming plugin to work, but was not able to. winamp just freezes when i try to play anything using that plugin in the m-audio control panel, i selected 2-in, 2-out 24 bit, 8000hz to 48000hz, instead of 16bit if i put it to dts/pass through, and then try to play a file in winamp, it gives me an error saying bad direct sound driver or unsupported format or something like that another strange phenomenon is when i select the operating mode as 0 in 2 out 24bit, 88200 to 96000 Hz, and play a file, the rotel shows 9.6 Khz, and it automatically switches from all channel stereo to 2 ch PCM (still plays the woofer). and i am not able to switch it to all channel. when i go back to 2 in 2 out 8000 to 48000, it shows 48k on the display and is able to work fine in 7ch stereo. i thought that was a bit strange, and am not able to explain why this is. so thats one question. the other question is - do you think i would see any improvement by going to the audiophile 2496 or some such instead of the transit? i will run some more experiments with loss less compression, to verify that aspect. thanks!
  4. thanks for the input folks. i will run some experiments. those are some good points Egon, yes the woofer sure is woofing. it does not sound "bad" at all per say, even sounds pretty good actually, but it is hard to describe it, it just doest seem to have the dynamic nature of sound (which most people might not notice), i guess i am not very fluent with the audiophile lingo. it sounds a lot better when i listen to a cd through my up-converting CD player but mp3s sound like they are missing a particular dynamic/deep quality of the sound other than that it sounds very clear, awesome bass etc. when i play mp3s from the cd player they sound better than when played from the computer which is what led me to believe that the problem lies in the PC-Rotel link someplace wow, i didnt know it was possible to unmap from the windows mixer, i will definitely give that a shot, and post the results. no, this M-Audio software does not come up with a mixer, just a control panel that lets me select from 5 different operating modes, and 5 different latency levels, and mic boost. thanks!
  5. I have a dedicated computer as the main audio front end, here is the configuration of my system: Computer running Windows XP USB M-Audio Transit to S/PDIF (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Transit.html ) S/PDIF input to Rotel RSX-1067 7 Mission speakers M35i floor standing fronts M32i surrounds and rears M3c1i center 1 SVS 4ft cylindrical sub (don't remember the model#, it is a discontinued one) I mostly play MP3s in Winamp (using MAD input plug-in, have not been able to get k-stream to work with this setup) or stream audio online via Pandora or some such. Mostly 2 channel, I use the "All Channel Stereo" mode on the Rotel to listen to the stereo sound through all speakers. The current performance of the system is just not satisfactory considering the quality of the components. I am looking at improving the PC to Rotel link, what would be the best way for me to do this while staying reasonably priced? (>$500) Would I be better off getting something like the Juli@ PCI card and going S/PDIF straight to the Rotel? Or would I be better off getting a "nicer" USB-S/PDIF link like this one: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Bel-Canto-USB-Link-Review Or would I be better off getting an external USB DAC in a similar price range? I feel like I am not getting the best out of my Rotel. Are my speakers at par with the Receiver in terms of quality? Thanks! Ankush http://ankush.vimawala.com http://photoblog.vimawala.com
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