James1776

200+ views but not a single recommendation. That is depressing. Either the issue is so old no one cares to address it or there is simply no solution and no one wants to tell me.... Sigh! I could have asked something hard, like why does Netflix play movies in french without English subtitles in France while I can get the subtitles in the USA...

What is a good app/program/work around to get decent sound out of a chromebook. I have a Lenovo 13.3 in G20 and the sound is limited to MP3 dross. I can use external speakers but the actual music files still suck.

I am using a Windows 7 PC, J-River 20, a Music Fidelity VLINK 192, to a Benchmark DAC1. With this setup, the PC does not see the DAC BUT does see the Music Fidelity converter and plays music without effort. I plug the AQ Jitter bug into the PC USB out slot and connect the USB cable to the rest of my system and I am getting the best sound I have ever had in my home system.

I cannot speak for this generation of Media Monkey but when I transitioned to J-River 3 or 4 years ago, I went because the user interface was far easier and understandable to me.

I relied on Toslink for a good while but found it harsh and edgie. The more I spent on cables the more annoyed I became about its shortcomings. My DAC is elderly, a Benchmark DAC1. The biggest improvement I have made to its performance was adding a Music Fidelity VLINK 192...simply no going back.

My device arrived late last week and I found its performance varied with my rig. It tamed a bit of grittiness in my portable system (phone, jitterbug, dragonfly, earbuds). The change was more subtle in my best rig (laptop to jitterbug to benchmark DAC1 to PrimaLuna Dialogue II) more open and a softer but more extended top end. Where I had issues was on the laptop I am typing on. Laptop, jitterbug, iDac...I was getting crackles and pops. I E-mailed AudioQuest and they recommended trying another USB cable. When I did 99% of the noise went away, but the 'new' cable was a very cheap junker. I have a better one on order which I expect to remove the noise completely...hopefully. The sound had been gritty/edgy at the highs. With the device in the system the edge goes away. I tried the device in an unused USB port as well but could not hear any real change. I also inserted the device between a music flash drive and my Oppo BDP103...any change was so subtle I was not sure I was really hearing anything.

Another great reason to keep to Win7

I want to try t with my portable rig, a HTC One (M8) running USB Audio player into a AudioQuest Dragonfly....I'll try it tomorrow if it shows up as scheduled.

For info...amazon is also selling the devices...I ordered mine Friday and will have it tomorrow...

Because so much 'science' has become simply political rhetoric...or religion

My phone came with 16gb of storage so I promptly added a 32GB sd card...problem solved.

Try a decent android phone, the USB audio player pro app, a few high rez files and any DAC...I use the Dragonfly... Takes up far less space than the pono and plays the same resolution bypassing the phone DAC entirely.

I buy CD's simply because the downloaded CD quality 16/44.1 file costs more than 99% of the CD's out there so ripping is far cheaper than downloading.

Their store is a great idea...the need for a stand alone music only player is yet to be demonstrated...a good phone with a good music app does much the same thing.

in my experience nearly every time I have had any crackling in my playback its because I have a dirty connector somewhere...Clean your connections and see if it goes away.