watchnerd
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I really find it incredible how they can build and distribute something like that and have any profit margin at all?
Maybe that's part of the reason they get accused of stealing designs and sued?
I really find it incredible how they can build and distribute something like that and have any profit margin at all?
Maybe that's part of the reason they get accused of stealing designs and sued?
Get sued for what...Using the same commodity ICs just like everyone else?
Can't wait till they drop their bombs on MQA for both software and hardware decoding.Then there's an entire army of turnkey Chinese EEs for hire to reverse engineer existing products to avoid pesky patent infringements.
Can't wait till they drop their bombs on MQA for both software and hardware decoding.
That will take the wind out of Meridians sails.
Can't wait till they drop their bombs on MQA for both software and hardware decoding.
That will take the wind out of Meridians sails.
It's already a form of DRM.Then Meridian will respond by trying to embed encryption and we'll have DRM all over again, which the music labels will love.
Then Meridian will respond by trying to embed encryption ...
"Decrypting"...
Sounds like something grave robbers do...
"Decrypting"...
Sounds like something grave robbers do...
I'm interested in buying the Behringer umc204HD. I do have a couple of questions.
- This DAC is USB bus powered. Can it drive a pair of active monitors (like the JBL 705Ps) to full volume over 10-15 foot balanced cables?
- How about 20-25 foot balanced cables?
I understand that the 705P and other studio monitors often have an input sensitivity switch but the question seems worth asking.
I'd be grateful for any information from measurement or regular use.
You would be using the UMC204HD exactly as intended in you application so you are good to go.
IIRC the original Sheffield recordings used something like 750' of cable from recording room to cutting room... Not something I would try, but 50' ~ 100' should be no big deal with decent cables and routing. Large arenas and such run 1000' or more of of XLR.
S/PDIF (especially) and AES digital audio links have shorter limits as they are passing wideband data even though the cables look like XLR.
- This DAC is USB bus powered. Can it drive a pair of active monitors (like the JBL 705Ps) to full volume over 10-15 foot balanced cables?
- How about 20-25 foot balanced cables?
I understand that the 705P and other studio monitors often have an input sensitivity switch but the question seems worth asking.
Set to speaker to Pro (+4dBu), if sound level is too low, set to Consumer (-10dBu).