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To what format did you rip using iTunes? iTunes is no better than any other consumer ripper, which skips errors for sake of speed. Further compressing the rip to 128k mp3 or whatever consumer quality compression algorithm can make things sound bad, depending on your system transparency and hearing ability, and sensitivity to compression artifacts. If you didn't change the default settings on iTunes, you probably used 128kbps compression. But that's OK because it is "CD quality." Maybe iTunes compression settings can be set to lossless? I don't know, but plenty of peeps on AC know...For hifi listening you need lossless, like flac, wav, or Apple's own lossless codec. You can rip to Apple lossless to play lossless files in iTunes or iPods. Technically as good as flac. More universal than flac if you consider iPods rule the world. Less universal if you are not an iPod head. You can use dbpoweramp to rip to Apple Lossless. You can also use dbpoweramp converter to change your flacs to apple lossless fairly painlessly. Another consideration is rip to flac and use a Logitech Duet or Sonos wifi remote to access music collection. But your daughter may not already own sonos or duet heheI don't know what remote options there are to control foobar or other media players but that's something to look into. Most foobar users enjoy the interface, easier than most other control scenarios, but it's not handheld.Rich
Did you check these options in the preferences:http://www.usbdacs.com/Macintosh/Macintosh.htmlhttp://www.usbdacs.com/Windows/Windows.html-Matt
Quote from: richidoo on 8 Sep 2008, 08:50 pmTo what format did you rip using iTunes? iTunes is no better than any other consumer ripper, which skips errors for sake of speed. Further compressing the rip to 128k mp3 or whatever consumer quality compression algorithm can make things sound bad, depending on your system transparency and hearing ability, and sensitivity to compression artifacts. If you didn't change the default settings on iTunes, you probably used 128kbps compression. But that's OK because it is "CD quality." Maybe iTunes compression settings can be set to lossless? I don't know, but plenty of peeps on AC know...For hifi listening you need lossless, like flac, wav, or Apple's own lossless codec. You can rip to Apple lossless to play lossless files in iTunes or iPods. Technically as good as flac. More universal than flac if you consider iPods rule the world. Less universal if you are not an iPod head. You can use dbpoweramp to rip to Apple Lossless. You can also use dbpoweramp converter to change your flacs to apple lossless fairly painlessly. Another consideration is rip to flac and use a Logitech Duet or Sonos wifi remote to access music collection. But your daughter may not already own sonos or duet heheI don't know what remote options there are to control foobar or other media players but that's something to look into. Most foobar users enjoy the interface, easier than most other control scenarios, but it's not handheld.RichI ripped with itunes 7.7 using AIFF (lossless) with error correction enabled. CD's still ripped at 7.5 to 12.5x - seemed WAY too fast.Frankly, my Musical Fidelity XDAC-V8's USB input may be part of the issue. Identical music played through my CDP/DAC sounds a lot better than through itunes and the DAC's USB input.ETA - When Ferrari delivered my daughter's new car they gave her an itouch.Just kidding she saved baby sitting money for a long while in order to buy the itouch.
EDS_I'll go for the obvious just in case it was overlooked.In iTunes Preferences >Playback tab, make sure that....CrossFade Playback: UncheckedSound Enhancer: UncheckedSound Check: UncheckedI am not a PC guy but check to make sure you don't have any thing changing USB output to a different bitrate. Where ever that would be on a PCed
Quote from: EDS_ on 8 Sep 2008, 09:19 pmQuote from: richidoo on 8 Sep 2008, 08:50 pmTo what format did you rip using iTunes? iTunes is no better than any other consumer ripper, which skips errors for sake of speed. Further compressing the rip to 128k mp3 or whatever consumer quality compression algorithm can make things sound bad, depending on your system transparency and hearing ability, and sensitivity to compression artifacts. If you didn't change the default settings on iTunes, you probably used 128kbps compression. But that's OK because it is "CD quality." Maybe iTunes compression settings can be set to lossless? I don't know, but plenty of peeps on AC know...For hifi listening you need lossless, like flac, wav, or Apple's own lossless codec. You can rip to Apple lossless to play lossless files in iTunes or iPods. Technically as good as flac. More universal than flac if you consider iPods rule the world. Less universal if you are not an iPod head. You can use dbpoweramp to rip to Apple Lossless. You can also use dbpoweramp converter to change your flacs to apple lossless fairly painlessly. Another consideration is rip to flac and use a Logitech Duet or Sonos wifi remote to access music collection. But your daughter may not already own sonos or duet heheI don't know what remote options there are to control foobar or other media players but that's something to look into. Most foobar users enjoy the interface, easier than most other control scenarios, but it's not handheld.RichI ripped with itunes 7.7 using AIFF (lossless) with error correction enabled. CD's still ripped at 7.5 to 12.5x - seemed WAY too fast.Frankly, my Musical Fidelity XDAC-V8's USB input may be part of the issue. Identical music played through my CDP/DAC sounds a lot better than through itunes and the DAC's USB input.ETA - When Ferrari delivered my daughter's new car they gave her an itouch.Just kidding she saved baby sitting money for a long while in order to buy the itouch. Have you tried ripping the same tracks using a different ripper? I'd rip some tracks to wav in both iTunes and something else (maybe EAC or WM) and then see whether the issue lies with iTunes or your dac. Does the MF's USB input convert to SPDIF or I2S?
