Beresford DAC
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Upgrade output from Virgin Cable TV Box, and to experiment with CDs ripped to flac.
I have a Quad 77 stack driving a pair of German tower loudspeakers Quart 980s. An ageing setup, but still very good. The Virgin Box as-is matched the Quad 77 FM sound, although that might not be entirely fair, as the Quad tuner is taking ist sRF input from the cable. I have moved to a marginal reception area - so its cable sat or nowt.
Does anyone know how Virgin code their radio output?
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Now that looks like a techies dream - I would have to hide that behind the Telly!
Was looking at one of these but went for this instead, to go straight into the digital in on my amp
And how does the Roland compare to the M-Audio Transit?
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Transit-main.html
I have a Quad 77 Cd player (15 years old) and integrated amp driving some pretty expensive loudspeakers.
When I bought an Audigy card 4 or 5 years ago I copied a CD and did an A-B test between the Quad Cd player and the PC+Aidigy drive the Quad amp.
I thought the Audigy better than the Quad CD player - 10 years between them, but the Quad costing 10 times as much.
I think ripping to flac gives an even clearer performance through the Audigy.
So now I want to see how much better I can get it without spending £1000 on a DAC.
If I was starting from scratch I might easily take the AVI Digital Speaker route, but my Quad amplification and expensive loudspeakers still perform extremely well.
When I bought an Audigy card 4 or 5 years ago I copied a CD and did an A-B test between the Quad Cd player and the PC+Aidigy drive the Quad amp.
I thought the Audigy better than the Quad CD player - 10 years between them, but the Quad costing 10 times as much.
I think ripping to flac gives an even clearer performance through the Audigy.
So now I want to see how much better I can get it without spending £1000 on a DAC.
If I was starting from scratch I might easily take the AVI Digital Speaker route, but my Quad amplification and expensive loudspeakers still perform extremely well.
The triumph of RCA Phono plugs in the HiFi world is a mystery. A plug that connects the signal before the screen is seriously flawed. A jack (1/4 inch or miniature does it the right way round, and can cope with a stereo signal. The 3 and 5 pin DIN plugs had their advantages, but none of these won over the phono plug.
And a balanced signal lead is always to be preferred. The phono won through an accident of history - RCA (Radio Corporation of America) with the Japanese selling hard into the US market. Nothing else stood a chance.