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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1160 on: June 25, 2015, 09:44:08 PM »
Quote from: Thad E Ginathom on June 25, 2015, 09:40:17 PM
A computer.

Seriously. I've given up on hif-fi-component CD players.


This is the exact inverse of my problem! I don't need a computer where my primary listening happens (I kind of don't want to need one either). When I need digital music, I can hook up my laptop, but more and more I have been using CDs
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1161 on: June 25, 2015, 10:36:47 PM »
I'm having a novel problem and I'm hoping that someone here has encountered it before/knows what to do to fix it.

I replaced my Gustard U12 with a Ciunas Converter. This change in my chain sounds fantastic...with 16/44 or 16/48 files. Whenever I try to play a 24 bit file in JRMC or Audirvana Plus, it plays back incredibly slowly. Crazy slowly.

The Amanero board has way of changing the bit rate settings in the Apple MIDI settings - and it seems to be trying to output at 32 bit.

Any advice people have would be appreciated.  As far as pickles go, this one's a dilly.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1162 on: June 26, 2015, 03:40:55 AM »
what DAC are you using?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1163 on: June 26, 2015, 03:42:23 AM »
Quote from: zerodeefex on June 26, 2015, 03:40:55 AM
what DAC are you using?

Sonic Frontiers TransDAC :0
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1164 on: June 26, 2015, 06:25:57 PM »
Quote from: AustinValentine on June 26, 2015, 03:42:23 AM
Sonic Frontiers TransDAC :0

Taking advantage of the wonderful I-94 rest stop wi-fi to post this: Problem Solved! Bitrate wasn't the problem; changing the output sample rate to 44.1 from 48 seems to have done the trick. For some reason 48 didn't choke up the Gustard. So that's that! It works (and sounds) great.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1165 on: June 26, 2015, 06:43:58 PM »
Quote from: aufmerksam on June 25, 2015, 09:44:08 PM
This is the exact inverse of my problem! I don't need a computer where my primary listening happens (I kind of don't want to need one either). When I need digital music, I can hook up my laptop, but more and more I have been using CDs


OK. Well, this is what I did, on the advice of the aged electronics guru who told me that my CD player cannot be repaired: I put a spare DVD player in the stack.

Very, very affordable, if you can live with the zero audiophile points.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1166 on: June 28, 2015, 04:11:26 AM »
Quote from: aufmerksam on June 25, 2015, 07:51:13 PM
Any recommends for an affordable CD Player? Some form of digital out required. It will feed to my gungnir then whatever amp.

I snagged a cheap DVD player and it works fine, via coax out (Samsung DVD-C500, feeding a number of DAC's). It sounds better than another unit I had (a Marantz SACD-8004) as a transport. A tad noisy but for $20, it looks and sounds good.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1167 on: June 29, 2015, 03:53:07 PM »
Does anyone know a headphone stand in the market that has a hole for a typical 1/4" (6.3mm) TRS plug?
Fostex TH900's old headphone stand used to have that for protecting the plug, but it was too wobbly and impossible to use.
A good quality stand that has hole for protecting the headphone's TRS plug?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1168 on: June 29, 2015, 04:46:21 PM »
Quote from: GoldfishX on June 28, 2015, 04:11:26 AM
I snagged a cheap DVD player and it works fine, via coax out (Samsung DVD-C500, feeding a number of DAC's). It sounds better than another unit I had (a Marantz SACD-8004) as a transport. A tad noisy but for $20, it looks and sounds good.

Add the old Philips, Marantz and Sony CD-players with the solid transports and TDA15xx-series DAC chips. There are some very good ones that are very reliable, easy to maintain and can sound very good. Some 80ties and 90ties CD-players are still good value yet look like black boxes.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1169 on: June 29, 2015, 08:42:29 PM »
Quote from: aufmerksam on June 25, 2015, 09:44:08 PM
This is the exact inverse of my problem! I don't need a computer where my primary listening happens (I kind of don't want to need one either). When I need digital music, I can hook up my laptop, but more and more I have been using CDs


Old PS1. SCPH-1001. Trust me, it sounds good! Also you can replace the output stage to make it even MORE POWERFUL.
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