All good, and for the public record: Christian is an exceptional human being who helped despite some other problems along the way that were...
"I think I'll have an imperial stout tonight. Get me a Guinness and a shot of Everclear, would you?"
Amir declaring himself "Chief Fun Officer" calls to mind the alleged Shostakovich line about being beaten by someone who insists that "your...
The first time I successfully ABX'ed two different reconstruction filters, both with "acoustically transparent" FR and linear phase from DC to...
Yeah, I've sent a request for return authorization. I haven't really been able to form good impressions of the Pietus since I tend to adjust...
@CEE TEE Are you aware of mains hum coming through when the Pietus is on high gain and the volume pot knob is touched? I saw somebody else mention...
I've got a Pietus without a DAC card coming whenever UPS gets around to delivering it. Is it worth it to grab a Modius E, or should I just try for...
Yeah, since you pointed in that direction I grabbed the SR60x out of the banishment box, and holy hell I don't think I've ever heard these sound...
Picked up one of these during Black Friday for $550 + tax. Wow, does this user interface ever suck balls. I guess that's what you get when you...
I’ve been concerned about running into the same problem with the Discdream. Does it play like a standard RBCD player, e.g. no gap when there’s no...
Another symptom of it not really being a RBCD player. CDs are just one long audio stream with pointers into it from the TOC. FF/RW past a track...
I haven't put the latest firmware on mine, but the firmware it came with is definitely not gapless. There are short gaps between tracks. The issue...
I just looked across a swath of ESS datasheets and the ones that discussed oversampling seemed to indicate an 8x oversampling rate. 8x...
Rant part deux: Amir loves to wave away concerns about these kinds of distortion products as "not an audible concern" because they're down at...
You shouldn't have spikes at the same level as the passband signal with zero-stuffing. The picture looks more like a true zero-order-hold (repeat...
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