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Philipp Paul Klose
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Good catch. Did not see that. The DAC sections of the HT and Eight are probably identical.
Are there any 3rd party power supplies available that you can recommend?Cons:
- External switch mode power supply
The Flex is powered by a smps with +12V and max 1.6A with ground on the outside and + on the inside. It uses a fairly common barrel connector, that is used often found with guitar pedals and I believe some low end laptops. A pretty standard part. I doubt that another power supply would help performance, but I cannot be sure since I have not tried it. On the extrem, one could use a car battery as an ideal source. A standard battery would probably last more than 200hrs.Are there any 3rd party power supplies available that you can recommend?
I'm thinking about getting the balanced version (HTx) and it would be good to know the potential impact the power supply can have on audio quality.
fingers crossed!@Philipp Paul Klose are you a REW user? If so can you tell us if the Flex HT appears as an input device in REW? If it does can you play something from your TV, while using the Flex HT as input device in REW (with the Flex HT input set to HDMI), and see if you are receiving the signal by using the Scope, Levels or RTA functionality in REW?
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Michael
I regret that the Minidsp Flex used to have but no longer has the remote learning capability. I hope they didn't axe it to provide a selling point for the Flex HT ...Yes, in my tests the TV set wakes the flex. Volume changes and mutes from the TV remote are mirrored on the flex.
I just checked it… The Flex HT seems to have no return after the DSP pipeline via USB. The other Flexes have that feature. Probably due to restrictions and piracy prevention.
Could you explain what this restriction means?I just checked it… The Flex HT seems to have no return after the DSP pipeline via USB. The other Flexes have that feature. Probably due to restrictions and piracy prevention.
That means you cannot record/listen/foldback the output of the DSP to your computer via USB.Could you explain what this restriction means?
Flex Eight can do that? I think that only the first Flex is capable of it.I just checked it… The Flex HT seems to have no return after the DSP pipeline via USB. The other Flexes have that feature. Probably due to restrictions and piracy prevention.
I am not aware of any AVR. First of all, why would they (what's the use case apart from MiniDSP Flex HT owners) and I suspect the copyright owners are strongly against losslessly decoding to an encryption free format.Is it possible to connect an AV receiver to one of these, through one of the receiver's HDMI outputs, maintaining the entire digital chain?
With a mid-range AV receiver and a Mini DSP Flex Ht we would have multiple HDMI inputs, Dolby and DTS decoding of the receiver plus crossover, heavy DSP and pre-outputs for 8 channels of the Flex.
No conozco ningún AVR. En primer lugar, ¿por qué lo harían (cuál es el caso de uso aparte de los propietarios de MiniDSP Flex HT) y sospecho que los propietarios de los derechos de autor están firmemente en contra de la decodificación sin pérdidas a un formato libre de cifrado? ?
Kadajawi, I hope you can help me. I understand that the S95C earc-HDMI output downmixes everything to 2 channels, right? Have you tried to send multichannel PCM from the S95C to the Minidsp Flex HT via USB? Maybe that could be a "secret door"? I am using the USB audio out from the S95C to my 2 channel DAC with great results (even if I think that the S95C resamples everything to 44.1khz).I am not aware of any AVR. First of all, why would they (what's the use case apart from MiniDSP Flex HT owners) and I suspect the copyright owners are strongly against losslessly decoding to an encryption free format.