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Originally Posted by Kyneo 
Hello Dynaudio Universe,
Slightly off topic of speakers directly, but I only use this blog for my audio discussion jonesing. ITs all about the music anyway.
I want to share something with you.
I have had this audio affliction since 1976. In the past 5 years I have completely upgraded and rebuilt my system. The last component added was my C-1's and I am very satisfied with them, I am sure you all are glad to know.
Over the years I've had vinyl and went away from it due to convenience, heresy...I know. But anyway, around 3 years ago my family gave me an ipod. I NEVER expected the audio enjoyment that I derived from this little device. All music is apple lossless files. Thanks Steve Jobs!! RIP. Of course it came with the factory head set, which was suprisingly good but definitely not audiofile quality. I very quickly purchased a set of westone three In ear monitors. I simply cannot believe that I am getting a true audifile experience with this setup, but it is VERY satisfying. This paved the way for what is next
Hang in there with me, I will get to the point...
A year ago I was given an apple TV as a gift. It does several things, but it was give to me to help me go where the audio world seems to be going...MUSIC Server. the old school in me resisted. I am a software tech, so I was not against change or the concept of new technoligy, I just didnt think I could reach audio Nirvana based on what I thought i knew.
About a week ago, my curiosity got the best of me and I downloaded a few cd's on to my plain old windows computer. Itunes existed on my computer as my music player. I opened it up, set sharing library on, turned on apple TV and clicked on music to my shared netword (it communicates wirelessly). I do have a DAC, so I had apple tv hooked up via a tos link to the DAC (wyred 4 sound dac2)
Much to my surprise, the sound is far superior to my cd player going through my DAC. I just didnt expect the difference, and of course I am truly shocked in how signficantly better it is!!. It is all across the musical spectrum. I have a pair of vandy 2wq subs, that were set on high volume and an high Q setting which was required before "music server" to acheive realistic bass. I have turned the Q to the lowest setting and may turn the volume down a bit but still tweaking.
MY point: Stop resisting!!! Increased convenience, and better sound quality!!! what more could we ask for.
The cost for going music server:
I already had the computer for other reasons: $0.00
apple TV $100 (a gift)
Dac ($1000, but already had it anyway. you do need a dac)
taaaa daaaaaa!!!!
I have not played any music on my cd player since I started downloading music to my computer.
Hello Dynaudio Universe,
Slightly off topic of speakers directly, but I only use this blog for my audio discussion jonesing. ITs all about the music anyway.
I want to share something with you.
I have had this audio affliction since 1976. In the past 5 years I have completely upgraded and rebuilt my system. The last component added was my C-1's and I am very satisfied with them, I am sure you all are glad to know.
Over the years I've had vinyl and went away from it due to convenience, heresy...I know. But anyway, around 3 years ago my family gave me an ipod. I NEVER expected the audio enjoyment that I derived from this little device. All music is apple lossless files. Thanks Steve Jobs!! RIP. Of course it came with the factory head set, which was suprisingly good but definitely not audiofile quality. I very quickly purchased a set of westone three In ear monitors. I simply cannot believe that I am getting a true audifile experience with this setup, but it is VERY satisfying. This paved the way for what is next
Hang in there with me, I will get to the point...
A year ago I was given an apple TV as a gift. It does several things, but it was give to me to help me go where the audio world seems to be going...MUSIC Server. the old school in me resisted. I am a software tech, so I was not against change or the concept of new technoligy, I just didnt think I could reach audio Nirvana based on what I thought i knew.
About a week ago, my curiosity got the best of me and I downloaded a few cd's on to my plain old windows computer. Itunes existed on my computer as my music player. I opened it up, set sharing library on, turned on apple TV and clicked on music to my shared netword (it communicates wirelessly). I do have a DAC, so I had apple tv hooked up via a tos link to the DAC (wyred 4 sound dac2)
Much to my surprise, the sound is far superior to my cd player going through my DAC. I just didnt expect the difference, and of course I am truly shocked in how signficantly better it is!!. It is all across the musical spectrum. I have a pair of vandy 2wq subs, that were set on high volume and an high Q setting which was required before "music server" to acheive realistic bass. I have turned the Q to the lowest setting and may turn the volume down a bit but still tweaking.
MY point: Stop resisting!!! Increased convenience, and better sound quality!!! what more could we ask for.
The cost for going music server:
I already had the computer for other reasons: $0.00
apple TV $100 (a gift)
Dac ($1000, but already had it anyway. you do need a dac)
taaaa daaaaaa!!!!
I have not played any music on my cd player since I started downloading music to my computer.
Have you tried a reclocker? I use Empirical Audio Synchro-mesh (toslink to SPDIF/BNC) between my AppleTV and the dac and the improvement is not subtle.
