Weakest link sound file

Who is too slow to stay? Sign in with Facebook. Membership is free, secure and easy. You will require an account to build your own soundboard or buy sound tracks.! Just fill out the account information below. All unverified accounts are deleted within 72 hours. Cart 0. My Account. Home Television Weakest Link. Weakest Link. Television Game Show. Its time to reveal who you think is the weakest li. Let's Play, The Weakest Link. So start strong, then finish strong and lastly work the in-between to shore up any weakness in your sound chain.

A couple of months ago I migrated Roon core and database to a new Mac mini. In my basement, I use Sense and Roon for my first and second floors. I stream Tidal, Qobuz, and JazzRadio. In my "old school", the belief was that the most critical components were the transducers - speakers, phono cartridges, mics While a DAC might not technically be a transduceer, I'm satisfied that converting data into music qualifies as converting energy from one form to another!

These are the worst things you can do when setting up a digital playback system: use usb into a dac and have a server in the same room as your audio equipment. Most of your better dacs use Ethernet and i2s. Using Ethernet, you can put your server in a different room. As for bit perfect streaming: how many times have you dealt with a remote company anywhere in the world and the data you sent to that company turned up not what you sent?

If you purchased 10 shares of stock, did the remote computer interpret that 10 shares to be or ? Packets of data are guaranteed to be sent in the order it was sent and the data had to be bit perfect or the packet is resent. If the data we send to banks or stock exchanges could not be guaranteed to be identical as the source, we would have major issues. I was previously considering the Holo Audio May DAC as my next purchase, but the positive feedback for Mustetec on the other thread has me wondering if I should save my money and go with DA instead.

Hopefully you will share your impressions once you get the Phoenix USB reclocker. There are folks who believe that it might result in more improvements compared to the USB reclocker. Jason Bourne I think you're quite wrong about that, anything under four figures won't sound very good at all and you're also wrong about transports they do sound different, that's why esoteric makes the best ones and everybody else is second and third.

There are 4 elements to an excellent streaming setup. The network, streamer and DAC are the most important in equal measure. The music server is a convenience device in my view. Pay more to get easy ripping and nice user interface and easy library management. I hadn't looked into the network switcher yet, but will absolutely report back on the Phoenix.

As for the , I was shocked at how good it is. Holographic sound and microdynamics galore! Two great affordable products, one for streaming, the other for bluetooth Use the DAC of your choice.

Now I will turn up Dire Straits and get another glass of wine. I have recently been asking myself the same question regarding source and chain of hardware and software to achieve the best results with streaming. The one thing I've learned for sure is it for me it has been a nebulous topic, although I feel as though I'm gaining clarity. On the issue of network I found this video really informative.

At first I used a win10 pro laptop with wifi on battery running the tidal app via USB to a Peachtree nova pre. Not bad, but thought I could do better. I streamed via tidal connect, which allows the Zen Stream to receive data directly from Tidal's servers using a phone as the remote - now that was a massive improvement! This yielded another big improvement.

Further research courtesy of PS audio forums led me to understand that a critical issue with a DAC is how it handles the input. Man, that is the real deal!

And seems to me like the best topology to get the best streaming sound. Essentially it is the shortest path to the DAC and utilizes the best input protocol.

If you plan to stream tidal, then be sure to find one that utilizes tidal connect and not their app. I read that in an attempt to gain control of the user interface, tidal is holding out on sending them all the bits. If I had to pick one, it'd be the DAC as the weakest link. But in fact it's hard to generalize. It really comes down to how these functions are implemented, integrated, and set up within the context of a complete sound system. Basic computer technology allows you to transmit bit-perfect data from an Internet source to a buffer in the computer to a buffer in a device over USB.

If that was not true, the world would shut down immediately. Perhaps there is noise that can leak into audio, but the bits are fine Yes, there may be pauses in the feed, but the bits remain perfect. There can be a mental disconnect in projecting audiophile nervosa onto basic computer technology.. I do it, even knowing how extraordinarily robust the transmission technology is. I buy the better and best cables and add some tweaks because that's what audiophiles do. I agree with electroslacker , except about buying the best cables.

Especially a digital cable. In the past, some unscrupulous manufacturers have manipulated the standardized analog conversion formulas for their DACs. Basically adding internal EQ to them to make them stand out. I used to be a programmer and have written other types of conversion formulas. Theoretically, all DACs should output the same, with noise, including jitter, being below audible thresholds.

I worry about the speakers and the room, not the digital components. Jitter being below audible thresholds? Today, for most digital USB in audio, i. USB and Ethernet, no, timing does not matter, not even a little. Jitter stopped being an issue a long time ago in most setups. I am sure there are some low volume DAC's that don't have the necessary circuitry to eliminate jitter. Insulting someone's hearing is not going to make your point when you are unable to prove that your's is any better.

Those are the two that will affect what your hear more than digital cables and such. Get the features you like at the price you're comfortable with. A lot of people use amplifiers, tube, many low feedback designs, etc. Those will definitely sound different from amplifiers designed to be a straight wire with gain. Some speaker cables may be tone controls. I guess an interconnect could be too.

Some MIT seemed to be. No, the speaker tends to interfere with that, but many come very close. I encourage you to take some amplifiers that identified as such and see if you can tell them apart without looking. As it played over the intercom thankfully the service was already over , the predominant phrase was "There's a damn elephant in the living room! This file , the shortest of the "Elephant" remixes, is approximately 35 seconds long.

This file , the second of four "Elephant" remixes, is just over and is a bit different from the others. This file , "Elephant" cut 3, has Dad sounding like he's on some sort of drugs. Lasts about