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Have one on order...Well shoot, where's my credit card?
How can I ever live without one of the little POS's
Have one on order...Well shoot, where's my credit card?
How can I ever live without one of the little POS's
What was it PT Barnum used to say? LOLHave one on order...
Upgrading is a disease in all hobbies. All guys want the latest shiniest toys ..bikes, cars , cameras , boats , golf, cycling gear, hifi , av, you name it.... and we all rationalize our need for it and like serial abusers , promise ourselves and SO's that it will never happen again...your end system...NOT!!!
Have a look at the 2x4hd plugin Am.
https://www.minidsp.com/images/documents/Product Brief-2x4 HD1 plugin.pdf
it this chinese model from Topping.
No worries.
I remember reading about ODAC during its development. Did anyone find out what happened to NWAVguy who designed it?
Noticed the new <$100 AudioQuest DragonFly Black claims MQA...
I can test a few phones
Hauwei p10 plus
Samsung S7 edge
HTC M10
Dacs to hand
Meridian Explorer 2
Chord Mojo
I so love it when a special little light comes on , there's a little click and on comes the light, It makes me feel special.I would love to make an 'MQA' DAC that doesn't do anything special except make the little MQA light go on and see who could actually tell the difference.
I so love it when a special little light comes on , there's a little click and on comes the light, It makes me feel special.
I only get that when I play SACD but the SACD is often rolled off and very dull to listen to, still it has that special little light that comes on so..
You read my mind partially as just an hour ago I thought about measuring my Samsung S8+. This is after measuring my laptop and being horrified at how bad it was! Plan to do an article on this.Can you test the best budget DAC(s) vs the DACs built into a good smart phone?
Here is jitter on a Nexus 6P phone. 10-14 khz shown.I better the jitter on the phone is still below the audible range.
I have this and have posted some measurements on it already. Full review to come.Hi everyone,
I own an ODAC and it sounds pretty good to my ears and I believe it gets good reviews. Im looking at getting another DAC for my mancave system and was looking it this chinese model from Topping.
http://www.tpdz.net/en/products/d30/index.htm
It appears to get decent reviews on Head-Fi.org but I wonder would you be interested in testing it. It costs about 120 I think but im in europe. I like your forum and it gives me plenty of enjoyable reading time of an evening.
Ray
With surface mount devices it is not too hard. A lot of this silicon is targeting phones where space and power efficiency is paramount.How do you squeeze any type of quality DAC + a reasonably high quality headphone amp into a small USB widget?
And power it all off the USB buss?
Those symmetrical peaks showing either side of the tone , that's jitter right?Here is jitter on a Nexus 6P phone.
Here is jitter on a Nexus 6P phone. 10-14 khz shown.
View attachment 8789
Yes, seems to be spread apart at 700 hz in the first few each side. Don't know why 700 hz.Those symmetrical peaks showing either side of the tone , that's jitter right?
Here is jitter on a Nexus 6P phone.
Here is jitter on a Nexus 6P phone. 10-14 khz shown.
View attachment 8789
What level is 0dB? I was wondering what to set the phone headphone output to so we can compare. 100 mV? Thats fairly loud in my Oppo PM3s. A bit unfair to run them at full whack.