JRiver vs CAPS on W2012

George....Very cool. Please start another thread for this! :superbanana:

I have a collection of vintage Apple (pre 1990) that I would be happy to post.

So you are still running a Novell network at home? :roflmao:
 
Steve said:
George....Very cool. Please start another thread for this! :superbanana:

I have a collection of vintage Apple (pre 1990) that I would be happy to post.

So you are still running a Novell network at home? :roflmao:
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Not since the early 90s. Now it's just a simple peer to peer LAN with a private firewall. I remember a simple LAN for the DOS environment was a product called Lantastic which allow you to share both files and printers. It was not very difficult to set up and it was cost effective for very small offices.

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I remember it George. :congrats: Nice to see you are keeping it alive. And who said you need a NAS!
 
Steve said:
Chris...the CAPs I have built has an i7 3770T with 32GB RAM. OK as a general purpose quiet Home PC/server, but would likely go into an office headphone/bookshelf system if I tired of it in the main rig.
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Wow, really? See...that kinda runs counterintuitive, to my design philosophy. In fact...if I were to stay with a streamer solution, I'm with AO.

A 2-box solution...with the player, being sooo bare bones; it can't even sustain an OS, lol.
 
Steve said:
And that's also the problem with digital. The "DAC of the month".

The adaptation of digital often makes me want to wait it out longer like an old chameleon!

The other driver for me is ADC for my vinyl collection. An Ayre QA-9 would compliment that digital loop.

Or should I just buy some blank tape for the Studer...for the time being....
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Steve, you may find this an interesting read: Analog to Digital Converter Shootout: Which Sounds Best? (All Files Now Corrected and Available) | Analog Planet
 
Jim (Jriver owner) is a very complex personality. His ego seems to be bigger than Large Magellanic Cloud.

And if you see how he treats his customers online ...

I have already started looking for an alternative. I'm using HQ Player now, which sounds much better when upsampling stuff than Jriver, although it is not as easy to use.
 
There is something on the horizon which will blow minds... Not from JRiver.

And I'm not sure about the Jim-bashing. I've dealt with him quite a lot over the years and have had nothing but positive experiences.
 
CDLehner said:
Wow, really? See...that kinda runs counterintuitive, to my design philosophy. In fact...if I were to stay with a streamer solution, I'm with AO.

A 2-box solution...with the player, being sooo bare bones; it can't even sustain an OS, lol.
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Chris....It is AO but also with enough grunt to up sample on the fly. Also would like it to process ADC.
 
Mike said:
What about an Aurender N100 (from NAS) to a Lampi - if that's what you want. I will caution you about the Lampi. There have been more technical problems and sonic inconsistencies told to me than I can count. That being said, I would still like to try one personally.
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Wow Mike, I don't want to set off a fire storm form Lampi lovers but can you provide some context as to whether these problems were on recent Lampi models, pcm version, dsd, etc....???
 
FlexibleAudio said:
Wow Mike, I don't want to set off a fire storm form Lampi lovers but can you provide some context as to whether these problems were on recent Lampi models, pcm version, dsd, etc....???
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FlexibleAudio said:
Wow Mike, I don't want to set off a fire storm form Lampi lovers but can you provide some context as to whether these problems were on recent Lampi models, pcm version, dsd, etc....???
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I had two units (Leampi DSD gen 5 level 5 and Big 7) and zero problems.

My units are current production though (with PCBs) - not sure how were the older ones.

One things is certain - just looking at the pics, the introducion of the PCBs have improved the build quality (and consistency) quite substantially.
 
Do the latest Lampizators have transformers or SMPS?
 
Adam, the reason i ask is I haven't seen inside a Lampi for 2 years. I thought maybe with their change to pcb they may have gone to smps too.
 
Thanks Adam, that sure does look different from the last time I lifted the hood on one.
 
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