MR88 tuner and W4S Remedy

[crwilli]

Originally Posted by mike175gr

So which one would be a better one to do?

One thought. You may or may not keep the DAC that long...the Remedy is more likely to stay with you so I would get the Remedy for the longer term functionality

[chessman]

Originally Posted by mike175gr

So which one would be a better one to do?

I went with the Remedy so that I had the greatest flexibility.

[jhchernoff]

Good choice. I just got one and am very happy so far.

[jdandy]

jhchernoff.......Welcome to Audio Aficionado.

[Masterlu]

jhchernoff... Welcome to AA!

[aclearspot]

I've been feeding my self a steady diet of this tuner for a month. Using Balanced and digital connection at different times. While I was not overwhelmed with the sound of the tuner , it was quite pleasing to use and look at.
Yesterday I received my RemedyReclocker and last night at 10:30 I hooked the bad boy up with VooDoo Evolution cables. HOLY COW Batman I was not ready for this transformation. Black background and a sound stage were not terms I thought I'd ever use with a tuner but here they were. Even with headphones the music was too good to turn off. A big thanks to JamesLRock for this idea.

[jhchernoff]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

jhchernoff... Welcome to AA!

Thanks for the welcomes and all the advice whilst I was merely a lurker!

[blacsno]

[QUOTE=o0OBillO0o;678279]Digital out to the DAC should be great for XM - Sirius Radio.

NOTHING short of Sirius gutting it's play back system will it ever sound more than awful. I had a frank talk with a Sirius rep, not the please don't cancel drone. We agreed to disagreed on the company policy and direction on audio fidelity. Once you understand they are an AM station on steroids, you'll sleep so much easier.

I'm sitting here on pins and needles awaiting for my W4S Remedy to arrive! I hoping to do another test again with my Tascam DA3000 DSD v MDA1000 PCM.

Ken

[o0OBillO0o]

Originally Posted by blacsno

NOTHING short of Sirius gutting it's play back system will it ever sound more than awful. I had a frank talk with a Sirius rep, not the please don't cancel drone. We agreed to disagreed on the company policy and direction on audio fidelity. Once you understand they are an AM station on steroids, you'll sleep so much easier.

I'm sitting here on pins and needles awaiting for my W4S Remedy to arrive! I hoping to do another test again with my Tascam DA3000 DSD v MDA1000 PCM.

Ken

Ken I appreciate your enthusiasm! I do not disagree that Sirius XMs radio broadcasts are low fidelity. Digital to Digital is better than using the MR88's Digital to Analog converter when you use something like a MCD1100 or MDA1000 as a DAC.



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Audio channels on XM are digitally compressed using the CT-aacPlus (HE-AAC) codec from Coding Technologies for most channels, and the AMBE codec from Digital Voice Systems for some voice channels, including all of the Traffic and Weather channels.

The XM radio signal is broadcast on 6 separate radio carriers within the 12.5 MHz allocation. The entire content of the radio service, including both data and audio content, is represented by only two carriers. The other 4 carriers carry duplicates of the same content to achieve redundancy through signal diversity. The data on each carrier is encoded using time-delayed and error-correction schemes to enhance availability. Effectively the total radio spectrum used for content is a little over 4 MHz.[36]

Each two-carrier group broadcasts 100 8-kilobit-per-second streams in approximately 4 MHz of radio spectrum. These streams are combined using a patented process to form a variable number of channels using a variety of bitrates. Bandwidth is separated into segments of 4-kilobit-per-second virtual "streams" which are combined to form audio and data "channels" of varying bitrates from 4 to 64 kilobits-per-second.[37]

XM preprocesses audio content using Neural Audio processors that are optimized for the aacPlus codec, including spectral band replication (SBR). Audio is stored digitally in Dalet audio library systems using an industry-standard MPEG-1 Layer II at 384 kbit/s, sometimes known as MUSICAM. The audio is further processed by the Neural Audio processors on the way to broadcast.

Sirius XM Pops a classical music station is broadcast in 5.1 surround sound audio quality. The technology, titled XM HD Surround, is the result of a partnership between XM and Neural Audio Corporation which provides content with six discrete channels of digital audio. XM Live also broadcasts in this format for certain concerts and studio performances. XM manufacturing partners such as Denon, Onkyo, Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., and Yamaha have introduced home audio systems capable of playing XM HD Surround.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM_Satellite_Radio

Let's hope the Remedy does the trick for some of the recordings you make with the Tascam DA-3000.

[blacsno]

I read your last post!? I'm sorry but for THAT station and ONE genre isn't a ACCEPTABLE option ever! My complaint with them was on that point and I'm to pay MONEY to support that genre, and all other genre go POUND SAND! Hence my cancellation!

Ken