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Interesting video. I wonder if the left / right channel SNR difference is just age of the unit or design. I guess no way to know. At least when I'm listening I cant audibly find a fault, not that I would even with that level of difference in the video :)

Holy smokes!!!!!! Ok watching now. Excellent find!

So I've acquired a Bryston 2BLP which is very clean and I'm listening to it and all in all it sounds quite good to my ears - like nothing jumping out as being objectionable. It sounds just a tiny bit darker up top than newer amps I've tried and bottom end a little fatter but not having measured...

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For me I think it depends on if it the measurement is to the level when it becomes audible or not. Like will amp with harmonic distortion of 0.1% vs 0.001% be audible? I'm debating not given that a loudspeaker's distortion figures are much greater so I take measurements as a guide but I dont...

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Ya that scares the hell out of me and my solution so far has been just using pro amps with level controls so I use them to set as my max volume in case JRiver does do anything weird!

Oh wow good idea - I never knew something like this existed. I live under a rock :) LOL. So I can use this for when I want to toss my Hafler amp direct which has no level adjustments. With that amp I had to have the volume quite a lot lower in Jriver and I'm always paranoid that if the sw...

Hah very good point. I use pro amps typically so I use the level pots to set my max desired volume that I'd want to listen to and then I use the JRiver built in volume with a remote to adjust :) Better safe than sorry

Thank you my friend! I tend to use pretty short interconnects so hopefully that works out. I'm running the blue jean stuff at 1 meter long and I also looked at the input impedence of the amp I use and its 40K Ohms. So far though I do like what I hear from them. I prefer the denafrips slightly...

I did a WMTMW (still in the works) and loving it. BTW hello from another open baffle enthusiast :)

Awesome, thank you all. Its confirming what I'm already thinking. Maybe people are just used to having preamps with power amps and see it weird without it :) I flip between two DACs - the Gustard X16 and the Denafrips Ares II (which has a high output impedence) and I drive a Ramsa WP9220...

Hi all, so for years I've used Jriver to drive a dac connected to a power amp but I'm often told that I'd get better results using a preamp. To me it seems the less stuff in the chain, the clearer - in theory, the sound. If I dont need any additional gain of a pre or have no need for more...

Ah perfect. I was thinking because speaker is reactive, maybe the meter may not be happy but but I guess not if I'm always feeding the same test signal frequency right? Clearly I'm not experienced but I was kind of thinking along those lines :)

Thank you for the tips my friend :) I do still have my old radioshack meter so I'll use that. I actually have a really neat ABX tester by QSC that I picked up used ages ago but its got problems I believe.. Twice I tried to use it and twice it shorted the amps and/or threw them into...

I agree its not nearly ideal. Maybe putting an 8 ohm load across the amp's output and adjusting the level and measure voltage of a test tone would be not much slower. Maybe I could do something like that? Either way I think it would be a fun test even if it was with a mic.

Well one thing is for sure, I'm planning a non scientific listening test over the weekend with a few friends so we're going to listen to a few DACs using a few test tracks we know. Someone not part of the listening will swap DACs without us seeing which is now in place and sound for each will...

I do like mine a little better than the Gustard X16 I had but not sure why. I wonder even though most dacs are very capable, if there are still small response wiggles and if people have sensitivity to some frequencies - say a half db or db bump here or there, that it may be grating to the ears...

Hello, trying to understand if the details listed here as far as the digital out of this sound card are decent for 44.1 use (most of my music is ripped WAV @44.1). I'm feeding an old DAC that does not have USB input. I mean to me it sounds good but I'm wondering if I'm just used to old and...