I agree with you in regard to an ideal listening room which I haven’t any access to.
This is all complete placebo effect, at no point in time, thus changing an op amp make these kind of changes to the actual sound, because op amps don't actually work this way.
Well, I found myself fallible this evening so the application for Popes job in the bin.
... which is the cause why you will hear such differences in sound where none exist in the first place.
... a difference created by the human brain, taking in all knowledge about what you know about the device under test. That's the way our brains work, without exception. In reality there are no such audible differences since, as @Jimster480 has stated above, opamps do not work that way.
With above said, have as much fun as possible with opamp rolling. But don't come back claiming those differences you hear do actually exist outside of your brain.
See my posting above.
I will do just that, have fun with this little unit. I will say before I vanish that if I was to build a dac or amp myself I would never ever build one of either on measurements alone and without my own ears listening to parts in certain stages many times over. That’s a certain, cheers!
Just to keep everything in perspective: without any controls and blind testing these statements have no worth to anybody except the poster.
My thoughts exactly.
Burson -> expensive hobbyist shite opamps, no self-respecting manufacturer would plug these in default
Sadly this was my experience. Everything I tried these in made the devices sound worse... When I first stumbled upon Burson I didn't know enough in the audio world yet and their marketing made it seem like they were a boutique company doing things differently to extract better performance... before I even found this site my EARS told me that this wasn't the case.... but again I was always very objective and scientific so even if I purchased something based on marketing.... I spent time to check and listen.... I put a Burson Op Amp in my Topping A30 (which is funny because the op Amp cost more than half as much as the Amp).... but the "marketing" was that this would make my A30 into a SOTA Amp... instead it made the amp sound harsh and bright and sharp... I tried with a few different headphones I had and they all sucked with this amp vs the LM4562 which was my favorite "rolled" Op Amp from the original TI Op Amp that it came with...
You just don't have the topping drivers installed, install those, and you can see all. Noticed this more in 23H2 and up
There's no deeper meaning behind these values, they're effectively random and you can change them as you see fit.
No. Anything beyond 48kHz serves zero purpose for music playback.
Rasto can see all sample rates with both DACs, it's just that they're set to those values by default.
Both ASIO and Wasapi Exclusive are bit-exact and so transmit identical sound.
