Recent content by Lambda

I just use a PC. Don't want any "Smart" Spyware in my monitor and don't see why i would need different devices to do the same thing (that is play back media)

As expected. Digital is perfectly fine, Analog is crap comaprd to proper DACs but still good enough for the average Joe

This is all marketing BS. don’t fall for any of this. They will work exactly the same. The cabel is never the limiting factor with reasonable length Toslink

Its all complete BS. Get the Generic cable that looks like this: It’s gona be fine and the better looking ones are not better

"It’s all nice and big and discrete components.... it must sound good..." Well making it big makes it susceptible to noise (we see this in the measurements) and "slow" so you can't have lots of feedback without having it unstable (we see this in the measurements as high distortion)

Sure you can and sure it is ok. You just loos some dynamic / sinad performance. Not exactly but about as much as turn down the volume. So if you used the volume controll to lets say about -12dB that's fine and you will not hear a difference but if you never go over -20dB your wasting a lot...

The mini usb type b plug says it's all. This is desigend in the 2000s. today many dongles perform better

Maybe contact Topping they shuld be abel to fix it in firmware.

Performs not as bad as it looks (but this is easy) Still i would not consider this amp

Well Headphones can certainly easily be damaged from this. But electronic like amps are very unlikely to be damaged from this. (but with bad designed equipment it’s not impossible)

Why would you assume this is what Mini DSP was talking about

because this speaker is designed to have save internal ground lift switch

No this is not how it works. You can absolutely not just add this like some DC battery's in series The Noise has polarity (or "phases") So some of the noise is maybe adding but but everything out of polarity is subtracting ("canceling out") "peak to peak" especially without bandwidth is btw...

i know but its not 2 times the voltage. its ~1.4 times. √ (1² + 1²) = 1,414... Noise is per definition random. if you add tow random numbers/voltages between -1 and 1 you don't get 2 you get approximately 1.4

Yes right. No. that's the beauty of it. To incoherent noise sources of the same strength add to so approximately 1.4