Jitter is a rather complex phenomenon. To make matters worse, there are different types. To mention 2 important ones: Intrinsic jitter. This is about the quality of the clock inside the DAC. Today there are DACs with Femto clocks. They do measure the intrinsic jitter in Femto because it is below 1 p...

Hearing differences is one thing, explaining what might be the cause is another. Personally I don’t believe it has anything to do with the bits. The “bits” are the only part of our audio that are truly digital. The signal rises or falls fast and even if this process is a bit garbled, we can always r...

try this one: http://www.allmusic.com/composition/con ... 0002377286

Maybe this link is of use: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthrea ... ss-Saracon

An obvious first is to check the audio settings, disable all DSP http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/OSX/iTunes.htm Using an iMac/Win7 I obtained very good results with Toslink. I tried a Music Fidelity 192. I can hear the difference between Toslink and adaptive mode USB of my DAC easily. The Tosl...

IMHO it is by and large a matter of using technical words in a sloppy way. One has a PC used for audio only and e.g. a USB DAC as an audio device. All of a sudden, this PC is called a music server and playing the audio is called streaming to the DAC. If you use a PC for word processing only and prin...

Earthloop?

Try Mac and Dac in the same AC outlet

Probably the first horn loaded active

http://www.avantgarde-acoustic.de/zero1/tech-specs.html

As the server is Win, have a look at peer to peer networking. Win supports it. If it makes sense, (Sinn) is very questionable. I don’t think it does. Networking is pretty much about transporting data, be it a document, a spreadsheet or audio. For the network it is simply a chunk of data. Switches, r...

It is Win7 indeed.
If I remember correctly all versions of RDP offer this option.
If you can’t get it to work, have a look at VNC eg TightVNC or TeamViewer

Probably this one:

The major reason the pro’s use XLR instead of RCA is noise canceling (balanced) and driving long lines (voltage is the double of RCA). 6,70 m Länge? That is short for XLR. As you probably have 2x 6,70: make a mono setup and run with one cable and then with the 2 cables (2x 6.7=13,4 m). Would be high...

Leider habe ich mittlerweile schon so viele CDs auf FLAC gerippt, dass ein Umstieg auf WAV aus Zeitgründen nur meinen musikalischen Favoriten vorbehalten bleiben wird. Have you tried memory playback? If the decoding of FLAC to PCM induces more jitter than the decoding of WAV, reading and decoding a...

There are 2 types of converters. UAC1/2 compliant. UAC is USB Audio Class, the standard as defined by USB. UAC1 is limited to 24/96, UAC2 goes up to 24/192. UAC1 is supported by Win,OSX and Linux. UAC2 OSX and Linux. You need a driver for Win Converters like the M2Tech use a proprietary protocol. Ei...

Traditional audio protocols like SPDIF, AES/EBU, Toslink etc are clock driven. By design the sender is in control. Adaptive mode USB works likewise. As we have 2 timed events, the clock of the sender and the clock driving the DAC and the DAC is not in control of the sender, the DAC has to do the buf...