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Curt

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  1. Matt - the Off-Ramp I2S isn't a DAC. It allows you to take your digital output from a USB port and converts it to an I2S format to feed the DAC. According to Steve Nugent of Empirical Audio this provides the lowest jitter. Curt
  2. I had this same setup myself some time back. It looked like iTunes but sounded like Foobar. The best of both worlds. Then I 'upgraded' to a newer version of iTunes. Poof - the multi-plugin would no longer work, and even reverting back to the previous version of iTunes did no good. Gone forever. Plus, the guy who wrote the program seems to have disappeared. I'm still looking for a way to get it back. Last night I did a blind A/B/C test using the same playlists in Foobar 0.8.3 using DirectSound 2 and Secret Rabbit Coder set to 24/96, iTunes 8, and J River Media Jukebox 12. All on a PC with Vista, running 24/96 through an Empirical Audio Off-Ramp I2S, into a DAC. I kept my eyes closed while my wife played samples from each, but I didn't know which was which. It took me about 5 seconds to pick out iTunes from the other two. There's kind of a harshness and glare to it. The other two were awfully close to each other, although I think Foobar wins by just a little bit. Anyway, I really like the look and functionality of iTunes, but prefer the sound of Foobar. Hopefully someone will write another program to bridge the two. Or write a new version of Foobar that is user friendly to someone like me.
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