I did play around quite extensively with the various settings changing the bit rates etc on the audio output of the sound card. I decided to go with the recorded format for the music I have which was 44khz 16bit, the reason for this is purely that the Mac can transmit the audio through the digital output without performing any up-sampling. I don't

I am sceptical about anything that advertises the possibility of enhancing the quality of MP3s. You can't get something out of nothing and unfortunately MP3 is a lossy format when it is compressed some data is disposed this can't be replaced. Encoding at 320kbps will help as will looking closely at your computers sound card, these are more often

Hi, I'm currently using a combination of BM-Link and Linkplayer on the Mac, generally I use BM-Link 95% of the time but occasionally I will use Linkplayer to pick up the record player source which is connected to my Overture (audio master, however not N-Music compatible) downstairs. I'm not 100% convinced about the quality of sound when it comes

To bore you more I now have the definitive answer from the people at Cambridge regarding the best way to get a quality signal out of your mac. This is pretty much what my ears told me last night but its nice to hear it from the horses mouth. "Optical is the preferred output if compared to USB, as it suffers from less jitter. You should not need

Latest update, I ditched the USB cable for the toslink as an experiment, the sound changed and initially i preferred this. After playing around a while it seems that the default output for digital output is 24bit 48k. In this setting the bass is much warmer however after playing around for a while I found that the for me the most natural sound was the

Update: From trawling the forums it seems that using a toslink cable with the DACMagic is the preferential way to go. I have read reports of muddy bass using the USB and this is certainly something I have experienced. I shall give it a go this evening. Regarding the bit rate, I'm still not much clearer on which setting to choose, 24bit 88k or 16

I have made a little Faux Pas. The Digital output on the DACMagic is pass through so it does not up-sample like the unbalanced phono. Even still the quality is better than direct connection from analog out on the Mac to the BeoVision. I am going to replace the digital / analog converter with a gold played y splitter to split the unbalanced out on the

Hello, After numerous complaints at the state of the wiring behind my TV upstairs I decided to get busy and integrate my Mac-BeoPort solution nice and tidy. As any good workman knows that in order to get a donkey to do some work it needs a carrot, me being the donkey and the carrot a Cambridge DACMagic to replace the crappy mac audio output. At present

Hi, Don't quote me on this but I believe that the power link sockets are very very low level output and are designed for B&O's Active Speakers so Power Link out to Aux in might not give you a high enough level signal. I would try the line out on the Beo Port, I am using this to temporarily connect my Beo Vision 26 (non masterlink) which

I'm not 100% with this suggestion as It is something I am considering myself but.... You could consider a BeoPort box, I'm not sure how a DAC Magic works but I think it works as an Independent Sound Card which means the mac should show to individual outputs which could be used simultaneously. You could have the digital out from the DAC into