ted_b
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| CONNECTING A SUB WHEN THERE IS NO SUB-OUT CONNECTION Depending upon subwoofer placement, it may prove easier to just run a jumper from the (+) and (-) terminals of each speaker to the respective speaker-level inputs of the subwoofer. The subwoofer has a high impedance input (e.g. 100k+ ohms), so the... | |
| New to Class D / Purifi - thoughts before I purchase, details below @mendef I have the other 2nd Gen Purifi Eigentakt by VTV, the larger 1ET9040BA monoblocks equipped with the tube buffer and Weiss op amps. I've had them for right about a year. Overall, this platform is highly resolving and transparent. The over... | |
| Can a off the shelf DAC, if engineered/implemented good, sound as good as a custom DAC? @dman777 "So my question is... if for instance, the all in one DAC streamer Sim Audio Moon 891 which uses a ESS DAC chip... can it sound as good ..." The short answer is yes, it can sound as good. Whether it does or not is a much longer discuss... | |
| SONIC IMAGERY 990 vs SPARKOS 2590 op amps This is something of a "chocolate or vanilla" question, as which of these two you would likely prefer boils down to your system/speakers characteristics and your personal tastes. Nord Acoustics likely offers these two because they contrast each ot... | |
| USB connection to DAC: multi stage improvement @antigrunge2 Oh yes, I've been down that road. I previously had an LHY OCK-2S 10 MHz external clock (-119 dBc @ 1 Hz) for the UIP. It made a nominal improvement, which seemed impressive given being this meters the USB packet protocol itself and no... | |
| USB connection to DAC: multi stage improvement @antigrunge2 Quite the complex science experiment you have there. And to think I was feeling weird about inserting a LHY UIP ahead of an Innuos Phoenix USB for evaluation in my own system (the jury is still out). I previously experimented with the... | |
| R&D vs. Marketing: Are we paying for tech or fake online hype? One unsurprising revelation of HiFi components is price is a suggestion, but not an absolute indicator of what's inside. A recent post concerned a certain upmarket DAC that used the exact same inexpensive third-party USB receiver/clock card used i... | |
| What about all those Chinese DACs? The Chinese HiFi industry has certainly advanced DAC development and substantially raised the bar with respect to price/performance value over the past decade or so. The impact this has made on accessibility and the future of HiFi is undeniable. ... | |
| PayPal just blocked my account for using F&F Unless one has absolute confidence in the integrity of the seller, it's better to simply tack the 3.5% fee onto the total, make seller whole, and consider the fee as transaction insurance. Any reputable seller should agree to this. Some sellers ar... | |
| Looking to set up separate circuits for my system @kjl1065 Paul McGowan is correct, you can combine everything except the amplifier and run these from a good power conditioner with isolated outlets. There are various ways to spend a fortune here, but it’s unnecessary. A conditioner by a reputabl... | |
| DACs, external clocks, and what's what But it does make you wonder when someone offers a $30,000 dac For sale but then says to get the best out of it you have to buy another $30,000 box that would seem to duplicate the clock function. @kerrybh Would you like to buy a set of 30k USD... | |
| DACs, external clocks, and what's what I was under the impression that all modern DAC’s have buffers, that then use the internal clock. Older DAC’s without the buffers used the external clock. @glennewdick USB audio data is asynchronous, and is fed into a FIFO buffer in the DAC. T... | |
| DACs, external clocks, and what's what "... a well designed DAC with a high quality internal clock cannot benefit from an external clock ..." "Cannot" is a strong word. A well-designed DAC featuring internal clocks (usually SC OXCO) that are galvanically isolated from noise, have th... | |
| Looking for help understanding clock usage in my system @sls883 If my understanding is correct, this default internal PLL feature appears to apply to R/X/A-26 and later flagship Gustard DACs, so your R26 was the same (whether you realized it or not). Innuos has a very good understanding of USB audio ... | |
| Looking for help understanding clock usage in my system @sls883 These are very good questions, and you’re far from the first to run into them. I found an instance where Gustard customer service provided clarification to this question, which was published in a Facebook post in a Gustard group. Relative... |