Improving PC streaming?

Posted by: Hermanh on 27 February 2013

Hi all,

I'm currently a very happy owner of a PC streamingsystem with following components:

 

Pc running JC River Media software with the M-audio Delta 192 Audiophile soundcard.
The SPDIF out from the soundcard connected with a chord Indigo Digital plus to the nDac + psu.
ARsound Lunar Din-Din interconnect to the Supernait + psu.

 

Would switching the soundcard for a Stello U3 (USB to SPDIF)

bring any further improvement in sound quality?

 

Any other suggestions would be welcome.

 

Many thanks for your reply's

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by PinkHamster

The soundcard in your PC is only necessary in order to produce a SPDIF out signal, because the nDAC does not support USB in from a PC. Therefore I doubt that an upgarde of the soundcard will do anthing at all to SQ in this case.

 

By the way, what you are doing is not streaming. Streaming involves that a renderer receives data over a network.

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by Hermanh

Thanks for the reply.

 

I forgot to mention a NAS that stores my music files and feeds the PC over my home network.

 

 

 

 

 

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by PinkHamster
Originally Posted by Hermanh:

Thanks for the reply.

 

I forgot to mention a NAS that stores my music files and feeds the PC over my home network.

 

Ah,

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by likesmusic

Naim themselves are using audiophilleo's method of asynchronous USB to s/pdif conversion, so there may be merit in considering audiphilleo's audiophilleo 1 and audiophilleo 2 usb to s/pdif convertors. They are available on 30 day free trial, so you've nothing much to lose, and in the true naim spirit have power supply upgrades available.

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by Aleg

Get a better Software Player and go for a top quality external usb-spdif converter

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by Hermanh
Originally Posted by Aleg:

Get a better Software Player and go for a top quality external usb-spdif converter

What software player would be better? I tried Itunes, Foobar and JC River.

Foobar and JC River sounded better than Itunes, but I heard no noticeable difference between Foobar and JC River.

JC River is more user friendly and is the player I use now with the ASIO driver.

 

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by Aleg
Originally Posted by Hermanh:
Originally Posted by Aleg:

Get a better Software Player and go for a top quality external usb-spdif converter

What software player would be better? I tried Itunes, Foobar and JC River.

Foobar and JC River sounded better than Itunes, but I heard no noticeable difference between Foobar and JC River.

JC River is more user friendly and is the player I use now with the ASIO driver.

 

 

 

JPlay will be the better software player, it can also be used with Jriver, but optimal would be using it with its own mini-player in dual pc setup in hibernate mode.

 

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Aleg

Posted on: 27 February 2013 by pcstockton
Originally Posted by Aleg:
 

JPlay will be the better software player, it can also be used with Jriver, but optimal would be using it with its own mini-player in dual pc setup in hibernate mode.

 

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Aleg

whatever.......

Posted on: 28 February 2013 by Hermanh
Originally Posted by Aleg:
Originally Posted by Hermanh:
Originally Posted by Aleg:

Get a better Software Player and go for a top quality external usb-spdif converter

What software player would be better? I tried Itunes, Foobar and JC River.

Foobar and JC River sounded better than Itunes, but I heard no noticeable difference between Foobar and JC River.

JC River is more user friendly and is the player I use now with the ASIO driver.

 

 

 

JPlay will be the better software player, it can also be used with Jriver, but optimal would be using it with its own mini-player in dual pc setup in hibernate mode.

 

-

Aleg

I did not know JPLAY.

Thanks for the tip, I will certainly give it a try.