I've always thought that AC conditioners / regenerators have always had more opportunity to be "legitimate" sound "enhancers" but 3-foot long cables only have the ability to change capacitance and yes, therefore sound. As many others have said, 30' of code-standard Romex or a breaker in a panel...
A buddy is looking for a DAC/Amp combo (or separate, I suppose) that has a microphone input and costs less than $300. Basically, it looks like there are only a handful of options including the Creative Sound Blaster X G6 and the Shiit Fulla. Is there anything else? It would be nice to avoid...
Fascinating. I remember looking at one of these back in the day and thinking I'd "upgrade" to it based on how much the "reviewers" were JIMPing about it. I wonder if similar era Krell, Levinson, Adcom, Sunfire, etc., amps would also actually test poorly. Could compare some of the tests...
GGroch,
Good points. I don't have any fancy gear, but I did dig out my old Fluke 179DMM and I was only getting about 1.247mv from the DAC output. You made a point this could be a contributing factor. I don't know. Interesting though.
Thanks again.
I have the liquid spark and the atom and it seems the liquid spark plays louder. That's not supported by what the measurements indicate, so I'm scratching my head wondering why? I should note, this is true for both on low or high gain - and I recognize they don't have the same gain.
Has anyone tried woofill or metalfill PLA? My printer is old now and the resolution is awful, so I was thinking of having one of the services do it, even in PLA, but the costs look a little silly. Any recommendations?
Agreed - very bright high notes via their horn. Not my favorite sound signature because it's fatiguing to me. They have a set of headphones I heard that do a great job of capturing that sound signature, but that's not necessarily a great thing (for me).