pulsedriverbg
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For my education, may I ask why both amps need to be switched on? What’s the consequence of having only one amp switched on? I have my stereo amp off when I listen to my headphone amp (and vice versa). I can detect a noise when turning one device on/off while listening to the other, but don’t otherwise detect significant volume loss or continuous noise.
D50 or D50s?If i can buy E30 or D50 for a similar price what should i choose?
Thank you
Balanced amps warn not to connect the output to an unbalanced headphone cable, because it would short the signal to ground.Because some amps short the input to ground or directly connect to the opamp input which has ESD protection which will short the input to supply rails which is 0V/gnd equivalently. This will cause the other amp receiving distorted input.
D50....my question was about sound qualityD50 or D50s?
With a DAC it's not really about sound quality but about whether or not they do their job. Both these DACs do. Having said that the E30 is a more recent product and there seems no reason to buy the D50 over the E30. With the E30 you're getting a remote, which the D50 doesn't have.
All in all I'd go for the E30, but not on the grounds of sound quality. It's a newer product with better features (I'm a fan of the remote!). The reason I asked whether it was the D50 or the D50s is that the D50s adds in extra features and, if you were offered the D50s at the price of the E30 you'd be getting a bargain!
So which one?Ok thank you. Just made the order...
Ever thought it might not be the DAC? But maybe speakers, amp, headphones ?
Also- how do you know its strongest at 12-12.5k?
I think it's hard to tell the difference between the filters. With another DAC of mine ages ago I did some comparative listening using different filters and I preferred the sharp linear filters, which would be the equivalent of Filter #1 in the E30. It wasn't blind testing, just me listening to the same passage of music & flipping between the filters, I'm sure I couldn't tell the difference if it had been blind testing.I have the D30 DAC but upgraded to this DAC the difference it tremendous. I love the new DAC. I played with the different filters and didn't hear a difference between them. Can you explain the reasons for having these different filters. Is it mostly just for dogs. Or are we humans supposed to hear a difference?
I have the D30 DAC but upgraded to this DAC the difference it tremendous. I love the new DAC. I played with the different filters and didn't hear a difference between them. Can you explain the reasons for having these different filters. Is it mostly just for dogs. Or are we humans supposed to hear a difference?
Ive been following this thread and had everything going fine but my E30 started not being recognized by my computer every time I restart the computer. It flashes the USB lights like its not connected then goes into the Auto Shutdown. And to add insult to injury, the driver wont re-install now. I get it to the reboot portion but when I restart, I get the no recognize and no install of driver catch 22 im currently in. And I uninstalled the driver and re-downloaded from this thread page as well as the firmware update but I cant get them to stick. Also, when I unplug my E30 from the USB port and move it to another one, itll flash a bunch of stuff, then get recongnized (without driver support) but if I put it into the same USB port I rebooted on, it wont recognize. Did something happen the the E30 itself? Things two days new to me and its a bit frustrating tbh.lol
Well, I've tried 3 different headphones and the hiss/dryness is there, so I would count them out as well as the speakers. The hiss is also audible on Zen DAC while listening through its phones out, so not an integrated amp issue as well :/
I've opened the files in audio editor and seperated frequencies using filters. The most hissing/dry tones are around 12-12.5 kHz.
Today I've tested everything once again with different laptop and with different Windows volume settings. Still the same - I just can't get rid of this dry, hissy tarnish behind.
It must be something with my hearing then Maybe I'm exceptionally sensitive to some kind of background noise.
In the first place, E30 cannot play DSD45.15MHz/DSD1024. When these files are played, an error message usually appears on the PC. However, depending on the audio player you use, there are some that convert it into a playable PCM signal. In my audio player foober2000, an error is displayed, and in TuneBrowser, it is automatically converted to 352.8kHz and played. ..Hello to everyone,
till now i have used KTB but it had some issue with the one channel missing so i needed another DAC.
Pulled the trigger and ordered E30 so i just got it today.
When i connected it to my Android Media player (Android 6 on MTP) trough USB and powered with a Samsung charger strange thing happens. On the E30 screen it shoes 45.15 DSD and no audio from Spotify/Tidal/Youtube. When i use a dedicated player app for music from the local storage it works with no issue. 45.15 DSD sing the display reading changes to 44.1 for example. But when i try Spotify/Tidal/Youtube again ....no audio.
Can someone help me how can i get around this problem? I use mainly the media player to listen to Spotify/Tidal. Obviously the player recognizes E30 but does not send any signal from Spotify/Tidal to it. Previous on KTB there where no such issues.
Hi , I have received my E30 today and i have the same problem , the USB led on the E30 screen is blinking, what can be done to fix that issue ?
In the first place, E30 cannot play DSD45.15Mz/DSD512. When these files are played, an error message usually appears on the PC. However, depending on the audio player you use, there are some that convert it into a playable PCM signal. foober2000 gives an error.
I have no knowledge about Spotify/Tidal, but even if I upsample to 45.15MHz to create a signal with these, the E30 can not be played, so it is error or converted to PCM and played.