I know its very, very new, but curious if anyone has had a listen yet. Wondering how it compares to the Traveler, and also the likes of Clearaudio Concept...
Hello everyone. Below is a copy and paste of my review from another site. iFi, a division of Abbingdon Music Research, has created a feature packed, great sounding bargain bombshell, the iDSD Micro.
What kind of company do you get when one of the 'legends' of the DIY audio community decides...
Yeah, I do. Briefly owned a pair back in 2006, purchased from the now defunct and slimy as hell Sound and Cinema in Knoxville TN... ( the owner, that is. His employees were good as gold, putting up with daily police and collection visits, and the more than occassional bounced payroll check)...
Just downloaded from HDTracks the new Hiromi Alive album.
l love Hiromi. And this one was engineered by Michael Bishop, who was responsible for Hiromi's excellent native DSD SACD's back when Telarc was making some of the best sounding DSD recordings you could get.
Michael Bishop used...
Any one have information on this new offering from Lampizator? I am VERY interested in the DSD only option.
Am I right to assume that its DSD engine is the same design as the original, the differences being PCB rather than point to point, and less exotic tubes?
If so, sounds like a...
A question for those of you in the know.
In PCM to DSD upsampling, whether in software or in a sigma-delta DAC chip, a reconstruction fitler is typically used for PCM.
For instance, in the case of Jriver Media Center's PCM to DSD conversion, measurements show it uses a typical linear phase...
Are all Asynchronous USB chips/implementations created equal??
Or not? In theory, Asynchronous USB should eliminate ALL interface jitter. On paper, it should be the end all cure of interface jitter. The Master clock is in control of flow from the computer. Data is downloaded into a buffer...