Bill_Janssen
(Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)
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I’ve watched a few of Mr. Beekhuyzen’s videos, and came away dazed and confused. He seems to be right about some things, wrong about others, and incoherent about still a third group. I wonder if he’s reading a script someone else wrote?
Kind of reminds me of the ads Wilford Brimley used to do for oatmeal. I always wondered if he actually ate oatmeal, or if after he finished filming the ad, he went back to licking caviar off the back of a chorus girl and quaffing champagne to wash it down, while watching a horse race.
for (ii) you must watch more of these movies and join the youtube channel. In the beginning some of these are very complex to understand, especially when you missed/ forgot basic background from previous videos. But when continuing watching these you will more and more understand the basic fundaments and you will quickly understand the new ones.
for (i) who believe sound quality is determined by the speakers and acoustics only, and ones and zeros are all the same, Enjoy your speakers.
Not sure why people are bringing up usb when he uses Ethernet. Never use usb going to a dac, always use Ethernet or i2s. Just like a few people pointed out, Ethernet cable is isolated but there are things you can do to make sure you are getting the best sound:
Get a good cat7 or better cable with the better connections. I use audioquest top of the line but there are others.
Once you buy the cable, have somebody hook it up to a fluke meter to make sure it’s built properly. Not sure if all cables are ‘signature’ tested at the factory, but we (not me but my fellow teammates in networking) used to build our own cables and you wouldn’t believe how many they had to reterminate.
You could try using an Ethernet to fiber adopter, with a short run fiber cable, then go thru a fiber back to Ethernet adopter between the wall and your dac. You will need 2 good Ethernet cables then.
How many reclockers can you get for Ethernet or i2s? How many cables can you buy that isolate the power and data using usb? How many for Ethernet or i2s? How many femto clocks for Ethernet or i2s?
Sure, there are audio switches that claim if it’s an improvement or not for your Ethernet network.
All inputs to a dac have differences: why don’t you use toslink? Coax?
Problem is the master clock: for USB, the clock is on the DAC, for I2S/Coax, it’s the wrong way round, the clock is at the source.
Toslink is limited up to 96 kHz/24, some claim it can go up to 192kHz, USB has virtually no limit as far as audio is concerned.
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Bill_Janssen
(Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)
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See
which thanks to the all-seeing moderators combines several different discussions held at various times into one over-arching mega-thread. My conclusion after suffering through this is that there’s no real point to trying to use i2s, and I can ignore it.
