I can confirm that this Apple dongle will not work with Onkyo HF player.
But my Sony Xperia XZ premium can recognize it, not bit perfect tho.
Assume this is on Android?
I can confirm that this Apple dongle will not work with Onkyo HF player.
But my Sony Xperia XZ premium can recognize it, not bit perfect tho.
If your Sony smartphone was built in the last few years(with Qnova battery management), it should last for the next few years assuming there is no physical damage.I have just bought a DAP again. My Sony smartphone won't last forever and I am resigned to the fact that when it needs to be replaced whatever comes next probably won't have a headphone jack. My work issue IPhone 8 has a dongle and it's a pain in the backside. I had an old Pioneer DAP but when I dusted it off and charged it up the screen had died. I saw a dealer off loading the Shanling m3s and bought one. Very nicely made, compact device and the volume goes way higher than my Sony smartphone. However its a bit of a backwards step really.
YesAssume this is on Android?
Of course. THat is how I tested it.Can this be made to work with a PC?
Of course. THat is how I tested it.
Correct.I see! So you just used a usb adaptor directly from the laptop’s USB port to the dongle? And it worked with ASIO4ALL as the driver?
The sound was OK but bass is week and dynamic range just not there. Here my reference is more powerful desktop and battery operated portables.
This is weird. On the measurement graph it does not clip throughout for 300 ohm, thus the greater the volume the better thd+n you have. I don’t understand what you mean by “the dynamic range is not there”. Also, I don’t understand why people complain about weak bass if the power is not sufficient— high and normal frequency waves consume much more power than low frequency waves do at same amplitude. If power is not sufficient, mid or high are the first to suffer, rather than bass.
You need 10x more bass amplitude to make it more powerful than a 10x higher frequency wave, based on kinetic energy of the wave equation.Most music contains much more bass than mids or treble, i.e. the power levels required at low frequencies are far higher for music.
Music with that much bass seems a disaster to me. I never see music with that much bass
You need 10x more bass amplitude to make it more powerful than a 10x higher frequency wave, based on kinetic energy of the wave equation.
Thus when talking about bass, a 100hz wave needs to have 10x the amplitude to make it more powerful than a 1000hz wave.
Also, human ear is more sensitive to the power of a 1000hz wave. So audibly that bass needs even higher amplitude to compete!
Music with that much bass seems a disaster to me. I never see music with that much bass
The measurements are continuous. Bass in music is impulsive. So it is possible to get music to play loud at mid-frequencies and when the bass comes, it depletes the power supply caps resulting in distortion. In other words, dynamic power is at stake with real music. I am thinking about how to test for this in measurements.I agree with yue's question. As you can see from the THD+N vs power plot the dongle does not clip at max volume, but amir still mentions that "the bass is weak". If there was no bass at maximum volume I guess we should see this on the THD+N plot as well?
The only explanation I can come up with is that the THD+N changes dramatically when tested with a real load (rather than the dummy 300 Ohm resistor) at max volume.
It does use minimum phase. Here is the impulse response:Somebody please measure the phase!
I just read the Archimago article and he found out Apple uses mimimum phase filter, that means it should have non-linear phase in passband.