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  1. Thks David. The music is all apple lossless. Am currently using iTunes but am open to trying something like audivarna. I am just wary of going down this path spending lots of money only to find that the cdp sounds better.
  2. Hi, Am just starting out with this so go easy on me!! I want to ditch my cdp (meridian which I use as a transport at the mo) and use my iMac which already has all my cd's on. Question: - my nos dac is non USB so am thinking about a hiface2? Will this sound as good as my cdp? (I went down this route a while ago with a squeezebox touch but could never get it to sound as good as using my cdp as a transport so went back to the old fashioned way - very frustrating!!) Any advice appreciated - what I don't want is a backward step!
  3. Sorted !!!!! I was previously ripping using Apple lossless I have now ripped a few test cd's instead using AIFF / 48.000khz / 16 bit Now I can't tell the difference, a definate improvement, i'm happy now.
  4. Yep, exactly the same. In fact I'm just swapping the cable from the dac between the cd player and the touch to check for differences.
  5. Thks for the reply. I have now bought a wireless router so the airport express problem is redundant. However, the cd player played into the same dac sounds better. Is there anything else to check? Maybe the itunes or touch server settings?
  6. Thks for the reply. I don't have a wireless modem but have an airport express set up in the kitchen to stream itunes to a smaller system. The mac therefore streams via the airport express and then onto the touch (as i understand it). Would a decent wireless modem improve things? The touch does not sound quite as good as the cd player and I am a little frustrated!!
  7. I have a touch AND a cd player (acting as a transport) playing into the same dac, they both sound different, why is this? The touch is streamed from my mac and does not sound as good as the cd transport - same cable, etc, apple lossless, etc. I expected them to sound exactly the same. The touch is streamed through an apple express could this be affecting the sound quality? I want to move over to the touch but am having trouble accepting the loss of sound quality. Any help much appreciated. It's the same DAC with two digital sources that should be the same, but sound different. Plus, the dac is non-oversampling and non-filtering.
  8. Thanks for the response! I use the cd player as a transport into the dac (the dac improved the cd player (it's an old meridian 206b and makes a great transport)). The dac is a nos dac and is a good one - it's made by a guy called peter daniels in canada. Unfortunately the dac is SPDIF only (no optical) so no choice there. I was hoping that effectively using the squeezebox as a streamed transport it would sound the same as the cdp (used as a transport). Why isn't this the case?
  9. Hi, am playing about with one of these with the idea of losing my cd player. At the moment it is running wirelessly off an imac (in the kitchen), all the cd's are on apple lossless. The touch is streaming in the main system next door and is playing into an audiosector dac. It sounds good, very good. However, it is not as good as my cd player and I was hoping it would be. It is pretty close but sounds a little more rounded and slightly flatter, less differentiation of instruments maybe and perhaps a little more digital (I can't explain better than that!) The question is, am I expecting too much of a streaming device (it's too far away from the mac to hardwire it)?? I get the impression most people who use these are not streaming so is it unreasonable of me to expect it to at last match my cd player (it's a meridian btw). Any advice, very much appreciated - i'm kinda new to computer based music!
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