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My JCAT USB Card impressions

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JCAT USB Card

 

I got this card from Marcin after he heard the news about building music server. The card arrived few days ago and I have my chance to listen to JCAT USB Card now. Let me warn you beforehand that I’m not reviewer so I’ll just say what I think about this card.

First, let’s see about the build quality. It’s very neat and solid card. I don’t like seeing an audiophile card being bloated with filters or mods that goes beyond its scale. JCAT USB Card is done right for commercial products. Some people may think it’s too expensive from its plain looks but chipsets and parts are chosen from high grade and PCB is done with good quality. There’s jumpers for power supply and filter. Good, I don’t like filter and I don’t have 2.1mm PSU to feed right now so I’ll use power supply from Seasonic Platinum PSU. It’s considered one of better PSUs for computers.

Next, let’s see how it sounds. I’m surprised. It’s like you’re listening to MP3 and then switch to FLAC. I used to hear ups and downs with other audiophile USB cards probably due to its massive filters. But JCAT USB Card make things much more evident than before. Headroom is increased with fuller dynamics and micro-detail. The music is much more alive with liquidity that I didn’t expect any USB Card to be able to pull this off.

Now let’s see how filters work. For the sake of trying, I’ll switch back and see how it turns out. The reason I don’t like filter because it’ll make the music sounds less live with compressed sound. I want fuller sound, live sound, and reveal everything as long as it’s clean enough. But JCAT USB Card’s filter changed my opinion about filter. It still has issues with compressed sound but in less significant manners. However, it’s really freaking cleaner while it retains most of music elements just fine. Look that DEEP AND TIGHT BASS. So deep, so tight, yet so smooth. I can’t believe I’m hearing this from USB Card listening to YouTube music. I think they can easily make USB filter product to sell separately just fine.

I normally don’t make a big impressions on products but this JCAT USB card is one of the best product I’ve heard from JPLAY. As expected coming from a guy who actually listen to music with real highend sources. There’s certain hits and misses that entry and mid-level products won’t understand but he delivered it finely at the price that is worthy for people who can afford. If you have budget and want the best things, JCAT USB Card will surely deliver it for you. It doesn’t look really stand out but it’s worth trying to get to the top of the hills.

JPLAY review on Positive Feedback

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After recent Fidelizer review on Positive Feedback, Marcin contacted me and asked me about reviewing on Positive Feedback and now it’s finally here. Another reason why I’d like to show JPLAY’s review here is I’m touched by Tom’s message as below.

JPLAY is a truly international undertaking; it was developed by a joint effort of the aforementioned Marcin Ostapowicz, from Poland, and Josef Piri, who hails from the Netherlands. It also became apparent to me that there was some level of cooperation with Keetakawee Punpeng of Fidelizer (from Thailand), and that the two software systems appear to have been designed to work seamlessly with each other. I think it’s truly brilliant that the two companies—seemingly worlds apart—can co-exist in a spirit of cooperation, especially where each stands so very much to gain if their products are embraced by the audiophile community worldwide.

I once expressed how I love this environment when software developers can help each other growing instead of being competitive to one another. I’m happy to see this goodness being voiced out in public. You can read the rest about how good JPLAY and Fidelizer works from this review below.

JPLAY for Windows: The Final Piece of the Puzzle? – Positive Feedback

Fidelizer Music Server Project Announcement

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After successful update of Fidelizer 7 software transition with a lot of good feedback, we would to inform you our dear users that we’re building an affordable music server platform based on customized Windows 10/JPLAY/Fidelizer platform. It’s going to be the best streaming experience with plug and play support under three-digit budget price. Expect more updates soon.

Oh…..I didn’t meant to choose this day as an April Fools’ joke. It’s just a pure coincidence, really. 🙂

Fidelizer review on Mono and Stereo

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Another excellent review of Fidelizer. It was reviewed by Matej Isak from Mono and Stereo. At first, I was little skeptical if he’s re-introducing stuff I wrote in website to be honest. But the more and I read, the more I’m impressed in how he introduced the music while reviewing. It doesn’t feel like I’m reading how Fidelizer will work out in his reviewing tests but more about knowing the music he picked and see how good it is being able to listen to wonderful pieces. Excellent article and made me want to know more about music he introduced during reviewing.

Fidelizer review

Fidelizer review on TNT-Audio

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Finally, the first official review of Fidelizer. It was reviewed by Nick Whetstone from TNT-Audio. Nick also reviewed JPLAY product before so this review should be good signs for JPLAY fans to see how reviewer who reviewed JPLAY before thinks about Fidelizer. It was written thoroughly with in-depth details about computer optimizations for audio. It’s quite a passionate review in my opinion so be sure to read it sometimes.

Fidelizer – computer optimization software for Windows