Just to make sure

Harald

I like the nuance and the emphasizes on the subjective part.
Most of this types of reviews are phrased in absolute terms.

Reference quality!

Thanks

2 way active from Germany:



http://www.digitalaudioblog.com/2012/03 ... rbo-8.html

Ad 1: There are. As file based audio is gaining popularity, all that is common in analog audio is coming to file based audio as well. You can buy e.g. Locus Design Nucleus as $ 1149,- Personally I would advise to squander your money on something different. http://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/HW/U...

http://www.headphone.com/headphone-amps ... ithead.php

http://www.ibasso.com/en/home/

http://www.fiio.com.cn/product/index.aspx

No problems here using JRiver/WASAPI on Win7
Nice test
Thanks Uli

Have a look: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/blogs ... al-Results

WASAPI is part of the new audio stack as introduced in Vista. Win 7 audio is to a large extend the same. WASAPI in exclusive mode bypasses the Win mixer. The Win mixer converts all audio to float, do if needed some processing and converts back to integer. When converting dither is applied. As a mixe...

There are claims that the amount of electrical activity inside a PC affects sound quality. This assumes that CPU, I/O or simply ripples on the power rails affect the clock driving the DA conversion. JRiver/FLAC from HD. There is the I/O needed to read the file and some CPU to decode the FLAC to lpcm...

A Spanish company making active 2 and 3 way systems: http://www.wadax.eu/

http://www.genelectube.com/6000A_features.html

You might wonder if there is much difference at all between A/B/C. A streamer is a small computer (most of the time running Linux like the Squeezebox Touch) so it has an onboard soundcard, a DAC. The sound quality will vary with the models. Personally I wonder what all this very expensive boxes ($50...

A couple of these audiophile players use integer mode. Basically bypassing the audio engine of OSX. The story is that one of these developers turned to Apple for advice. By doing so Apple realize that there are possibilities to circumvent their audio engione. So in Lion they disabled this option mak...

Amati hat geschrieben:Abgespielt werden soll über JRiver, ist dort ASIO auszuwählen?

Yes, Options > Audio > Audio Output
http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/P ... ayback.htm

Maybe these links are of use:
http://www.beis.de/Elektronik/DeltaSigm ... Sigma.html
http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/641