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Edoardo

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  1. Sorry for having been away for a few days. 1audio, thank you very much, I'm going to try your configuration as soon as possible! Cheers
  2. Sorry for having been away for a few days. 1audio, thank you very much, I'm going to try your configuration as soon as possible! Cheers
  3. The plug plugin will take care of all necessary conversions wait... I would not like the stream to be converted, but to be sent to the DAC in the original sample rate. so shall I substitute: ---------------------------------------------------- audio_output { format "44100:16:2" # optional ---------------------------------------------------- with ---------------------------------------------------- audio_output { format "*:24:2" # optional ---------------------------------------------------- ?
  4. Hi, how shall I do this? Shall I just delete the sample rates - the numbers specified - or the whole line?
  5. Thank you very much... I've been looking for tutorials, but I haven't found any clue about it yet...!
  6. Hi, again, this may be a silly question but is it possible to make MPD switch AUTOMATICALLY between sample rates (between 44.1, 48, 88.2 KHz) or do I have to edit the conf file each time?
  7. Hello, I would like to build a music server that... ...Runs Linux MPD ...fits in a library ...feeds my DAC through coax. SPDIF ...supports even 88.2 and 176.4 KHz, plug&play (possible?) ...can be "cliented" through wi-fi - like, with a netbook or an iPod as remotes. I have found that tiny server in the Voyage MPD store, but it would work only with USB as I/O, whereas I would like to get an SPDIF out also if I upgraded from my netbook... All the solutions I've found up to know are either too big or too expensive. Can anyone suggest a small motherboard in which I could put an ESI Juli@ and a wi-fi card, in a small case?
  8. If I am going for a music server, I'd like it to have an SPDIF out like through an ESI Juli@ or something like that. I would like to spend less than 200 EUR + the internal soundcard. All the solutions I have seen up to now are either by far too expensive or by far too big. I need the device to fit in my library somehow. Can anyone suggest a motherboard that can feature a wifi card and an ESI Juli@ and a case smaller than the average HTPC?
  9. Thank you again for the feedbacks. I guess I'm going to build some kind of little music server on my own then...
  10. thank you for sharing your impressions, one thing: how is the MacBook connected to the DAC?
  11. Good evening everyone, I have a question for you guys, As digital sources, I currently own a NetBook (running Linux), an iPod Classic and an Arcam rDAC. Since my listening files are mostly CD rips (few Hi-Res albums in storage) I'd like to know whether getting an iPod Dock featuring an SPDIF coax. out such as the Onkyo ND-S1 for listening just to those rips would be an upgrade, a downgrade or neither. my current chain is just like this: FLAC files on ext.HDD |---USB---> NetBook |---USB(dCS)---> DAC instead of... ALAC files on iPod |---USB---> Dock |---coax SPDIF---> DAC Would something change in better or worse? Does ALAC and FLAC files give the same playbacking quality? Can that tiny iPod CPU do the job? Can that tiny USB/SPDIF converter to the job (or was it meant to be fed with lossy files, indeed?) My headphone amplifier is really a very very revealing one, I'm afraid of all that tiny stuff before it to make some kind of noise... On one hand, I know I could invest that money on starting to build a music server (would that be such a cost-effective improvement instead?); on the other hand, the idea of "going back" into listening to music without having to switch the computer on, especially after having spent a day working on it, attracts me. Also, I've read around that connecting two such devices to the same USB hub of a Netbook is far from being the best solution, because of their power management issues, and I was wondering if this implementation could give better results, at least with CD rips, even though my rDAC features that "famous" dCS asynch USB receiver I would stop exploiting...
  12. Hello, Having given this a read from here. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/comment/reply/601/3789#comment-3789 ----- QUOTE "Look there are 2 cables inside a USB cable. There is the DATA differential pair that must be designed for traffic up to at least 12Mhz and the POWER cable which is VBUS 5V's and Ground. [...] It would be nice if you could switch the VBUS signal on the computer side from VBUS to Ground if your device doesn't use it. Anyways another thing about the POWER side of the cable is that noise from the computer can end up on the device. The cable should do all it can to make sure that doesn't happen. ----- END QUOTE I would like to ask you a couple of things. It'd be great if you could reply. I currently own an Arcam rDAC, which implements the dCS USB audio class 2.0 asynch input. I would like to know: - whether it would work without the USB VBUS signal - if so, whether they sell "audiophile" USB cables without the VBUS section. - or either how to switch off the "power" from one USB out in Linux Ubuntu OS.
  13. Clear... And what about balanced design, I mean... I wasn't speaking only about cabling, but also about balanced circuitry... Is it only a matter of noise? nothing to do with fidelity, dynamics, etc?
  14. Hi man, thank you very much! in the sense that the quality gap from unbalanced to balanced is smaller than the quality gap from 16/44.1 to 24/96 ... Or is there something more you can explain me?
  15. Hello everybody, newbie here, I was just wondering whether when it comes to HD files it is desirable or indeed necessary to have a balanced DAC, and/or a balanced amp or if unbalanced design is enough to tell the difference... Any experiences in that?
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