Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

[Oggy]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

Oggy,

Very close to vinyl and the sonic upgrade is incredible. When I play different components they all have the same level now. Very happy with the results.

Thanks

Excellent news!

Hopefully, this has massively reduced the risk of blown drive units, and you are hearing far more, of the capabilities, of your (very good), amp and speakers.

Happy days!

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

Very Happy, I get obsessed when it comes to my music. The beers are on me.

Thanks again

[mville]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

Very close to vinyl and the sonic upgrade is incredible. When I play different components they all have the same level now. Very happy with the results.

Great. That is what I expected. Sounds like you are very happy with the Rotel DACs.

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

Oggy,

Very close to vinyl and the sonic upgrade is incredible. When I play different components they all have the same level now. Very happy with the results.

Thanks

[Oggy]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

Update, Success, everything is sounding great. The optical sound card shows up as "ZxR DBpro". Now to check my music library to make sure it is all AIFF. When I ran perfect tunes it pulled up several MP3 files.

Thanks for everyone's input, very much appreciated. Great forum. Jriver not so much.

Hi MadFish,

Are your AIFF files, now more in line with the sound of your vinyl?

Hope you got a nice little, sonic upgrade.

Regards,

Oggy

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

Update, Success, everything is sounding great. The optical sound card shows up as "ZxR DBpro". Now to check my music library to make sure it is all AIFF. When I ran perfect tunes it pulled up several MP3 files.

Thanks for everyone's input, very much appreciated. Great forum. Jriver not so much.

[Oggy]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

This is the information I received today for Rotel tech.
Thank you for your email regarding the CM10&*8217;s and RB/RC 1590.
Based on the description of your setup it may be possible that if you have the volume on the computer (SB ZxR) turned up beyond the input sensitivity of the RC-1590 it could be enough to cause audio clipping at higher volumes which could be damaging the CM10 drivers.
In your current setup the RC1590 would not be doing the digital to analog conversion (DAC) &*8211; the SB ZxR would.
If you change the setup so you are outputting a digital optical signal from the SB ZxR to the RC-1590 it will ensure that the RC-1590 performs the digital-to-analog conversion and should ensure there is no clipping.. as long as the source material is not clipping or over-EQ&*8217;d.

Last night I added a optical output to the soundcard. Tonight hook up the optical cable.

Yes, that was mville's and my fears.

The good news, is that hopefully, you get an almost free, but big, sonic upgrade, with no blown drive units.

Win / win!

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

http://asia.creative.com/p/sound-car...nd-blaster-zxr, will explain the sound card setup instead of me trying to explain a field I am limited in. A mini mother board was installed through my ex-mentor so I added a larger one with more options and opportunities.

I have not looked yet to see if the device shows up

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

http://asia.creative.com/p/sound-car...nd-blaster-zxr, will explain the sound card setup instead of me trying to explain a field I am limited in. A mini mother board was installed through my ex-mentor so I added a larger one with more options and opportunities.

I have not looked yet to see if the device shows up

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

http://asia.creative.com/p/sound-car...nd-blaster-zxr, will explain the sound card setup instead of me trying to explain a field I am limited in. A mini mother board was installed through my ex-mentor so I added a larger one with more options and opportunities.

I have not looked yet to see if the device shows up

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

http://asia.creative.com/p/sound-car...nd-blaster-zxr, will explain the sound card setup instead of me trying to explain a field I am limited in. A mini mother board was installed through my ex-mentor so I added a larger one with more options and opportunities.

I have not looked yet to see if the device shows up

[mville]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

This is the information I received today for Rotel tech.
Thank you for your email regarding the CM10's and RB/RC 1590.
Based on the description of your setup it may be possible that if you have the volume on the computer (SB ZxR) turned up beyond the input sensitivity of the RC-1590 it could be enough to cause audio clipping at higher volumes which could be damaging the CM10 drivers.
In your current setup the RC1590 would not be doing the digital to analog conversion (DAC) - the SB ZxR would.
If you change the setup so you are outputting a digital optical signal from the to the RC-1590 it will ensure that the RC-1590 performs the digital-to-analog conversion and should ensure there is no clipping.. as long as the source material is not clipping or over-EQ'd.

Last night I added a optical output to the soundcard. Tonight hook up the optical cable.

This is pretty much what Oggy and I suspected. Good luck with the optical digital output setup.

... out of interest, can you explain:
I added a optical output to the soundcard

Does the SB ZxR optical output appear as a separate playback device in Control Panel >> Sound >> Playback tab and how have you configured the properties Advanced tab options?

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

This is the information I received today for Rotel tech.
Thank you for your email regarding the CM10&*8217;s and RB/RC 1590.
Based on the description of your setup it may be possible that if you have the volume on the computer (SB ZxR) turned up beyond the input sensitivity of the RC-1590 it could be enough to cause audio clipping at higher volumes which could be damaging the CM10 drivers.
In your current setup the RC1590 would not be doing the digital to analog conversion (DAC) &*8211; the SB ZxR would.
If you change the setup so you are outputting a digital optical signal from the SB ZxR to the RC-1590 it will ensure that the RC-1590 performs the digital-to-analog conversion and should ensure there is no clipping.. as long as the source material is not clipping or over-EQ&*8217;d.

Last night I added a optical output to the soundcard. Tonight hook up the optical cable.

[MadFish]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

I really want to thank everybody for their input. I am going to install the optical cable to the sound blaster sound card. I posted on the forum for Jriver and hopefully get some ideas. Hope to talk to yall by the end of the week.

Thanks again.
MadFish

[Oggy]

Re: Ripping/Quality of music HEEEELP

You may well hear better sound if you have a very high-end turntable, but I still suspect an issue with the JRiver and soundcard setup.

I am not a JRiver user, so right now, I think you would be wise to post on the JRiver forums and get some feedback on the optimum setup for your soundcard and JRiver.



Before you spend any cash, I would try connecting the soundcard optical digital outputs to the Rotel RC-1590 optical digital inputs.

Just seen your post, mville, couldn't agree more.