Severs and re clockers

Alrainbow

Alrainbow

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lwww.LucasAudioLab.com
the link above makes in my world the most musical severs on the planet. He can do mad drives and multi server boards completely supportable over the internet. I have worked with him for two years
he writes his own soft ware and scrips too. Very important for making a sever best for music alone.
Email him I'll vouch for him anytime
 
His website sucks
If he can't do a good website how can he write good software?....
 
Mike a few questions reg your inssue
have you tried a non audiograde Ethernet cable
does it happen on pcm or dsd or both
have you tried dop and native in Roon output for dsd
 
Ok then. There is a micro sds card on the network input modual it may be loose. It can be programmed remotely of need be. It's a shame the two i had were ok and the three I know who have them were ok too.
 
wisnon said:
Time limited?
Tradeoff...pretty website of cutting edge performance software...what do you want to pay for?
Click to expand...

I just want to view the facts, options and be able to place an order

Is that asking too much?
 
He has a form to fill out and email. Even a tel number show interest and ask. I can truly vouch for him in every way a pro and designer that can make your build for you based on your needs
as for sound nothing near it. It's tens of thousands of this is your thights cheap really.
He has many build levels and can be upgraded at any time. Based in Europe but has USA support as well. If anyone is thinking email him
feel free to ask questions here or pm me. I don't sell any products period but did have a hand in his servers so as I have built my own I know what his can deliver. He writes cust scripts to put him way ahead of others and has many other internal concepts that no one does.
Digital audio starts at the source so while very expensive dacs do use internal methods to help
having a great source matters to all no matter the price and on less than top shelf dacs you would be surprised how close to the heavens you could fly using a great sever.
 
Can sign on everything what Al wrote down. Top notch stuff...running the shop, being an exhibitor here iz Zurich than Warsaw and now Athens makes him a quite busy guy so guess something has to suffer (web page). But I also told him about this one...
 
I can also vouch for Lucas - he is a one-man-band but with an outstanding product and and a personal service to match. Even before I'd placed an order for one of his servers he was happy remotely logging into my demo server in the evening / weekends to make changes to match my system. Whilst his website lacks the polish of a big corporate entity, his product outperforms them at a lower cost as a result.
 
I wrote your buddy Lucas and asked about a reclocker. My server has a Jcat usb card and the dac galvanically isolates the signal from the power. Not sure if a reclocker will provide any benefit.
 
I felt it would not but it did in a big way.
Even my offramp 5 using spidif cOax output into my dac beats my usb input. A lower blacker back ground or lowers the noise floor no doubt
 
Jitter is loss of data correct. I looked at that offramp 5. It has 2 clocks so its oscillation is correct to the sample rate. That is part of their jitter reduction. Is the original usb signal from my jcat, or just a regular MB output already loosing or altering data due to the clock not being designed to optimally clock the sample rate. In other words, has jitter already damaged the digital signal.

My DAC does have coax in. It looks like single ended connector. Are you USB to the offramp, then coax out to the DAC.
 
Always trying new concepts lol. So far usb is below spidif but no dsd
The Re clocker pits usb back on top. Getting a new super amanaro usb Board to use and it has both usb and network inputs
 
Yes it was way ahead of the times 4 or 5 years ago I think. It pre dates my building of severs
Jitter is not loss it's basically noise imbedded in the data stream. There really are many facets to jitter
Electrical
Data packets that delay on the stream
Time delay that is not in time with clocks.
Too complex for here and besides according to some here I don't get understood hahahaha
If your dac has a spidif try it. Your server should have a coax output too. Most all main boards do.
Use a short RCA se interconnect to try. If it's bad try another jitter is touchy in spidif But you will know when it's a good for the purpose. Spidif bypasses usb this makes it go direct to the dac engine of it has an imput direct
 
Emperical audio said my JCat Femto USB card has a master clock in it. Reclocking probably wont do much. Especially if I'm not trying to convert to coax.
 
I have owned and still own gear from Steve Nugent at Empirical Audio. Just a TOP NOTCH guy. Great digital gear. His DACS are the best value for high end DAC's to many of us. Love Steve and know him well. He stands behind his gear. I have heard many servers, but not this one yet. The only server that I've heard sound better than the Aurender N10 and W20 is the Memory Player for Laufer Technique that I purchased recently. They have the lowest jitter I've seen so far for all three types of jitter (maybe there are more timing errors that we can't measure yet, I'm not sure). Mark, the designer is from Melos, but Sam bought the company and they fixed any issues iRT breakdowns. Most of us who have one swear by it, but again, digital is a funny beast. I also bought their prototype DAC that is as good as any DAC I've heard under 30k so far and we don't evne have the StealthCaps in it yet and it will have a ton oof other changes for the better. The way they set up the clocking, means you don't need an external one when using his sever and DAC together. I like fewer connections especially IRT digital. That's just me and they do the remote upgrades constantly etc...

There are. a lot of great companies out there for digital right now. I personally won't buy anything that isn't in my country (USA) as service is so important when talking digital. That's just me. Thanks for sharing. Would love to get one in to audition vs www.thememoryplayer.net lol
 
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