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    Holo Audio Red

    Can a bolt of lightning travel down an optical cable? It's a pain having to unplug my PI2AES ethernet from the router everytime there's a storm...
    Post by: Garns, Mar 17, 2024 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    ETA Ada Headphone Review: Don't Worry, Be Happy

    Sounds incredible. HD25 is tuned somewhat different to HD600/650, the bass emphasis is upper bass more than midbass and it has a Ford Escort XR3i...
    Post by: Garns, Feb 21, 2024 in forum: Headphones
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    What is your preferred music file format and why?

    I don't know for sure because I haven't tried it, but my understanding is that "local files" would be local to the tablet/phone you are running...
    Post by: Garns, Jan 22, 2024 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    What is your preferred music file format and why?

    A few thoughts! Different levels of flac compression impose different CPU loads to decode as well as encode. The max level compression uses quite...
    Post by: Garns, Jan 22, 2024 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Oh Sh#7! Eddie Current Studio B

    Don't know for sure but they look like a good match! 92dB so should be okay. For that money I would give them a shot, you can probably make your...
    Post by: Garns, Dec 31, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    Oh Sh#7! Eddie Current Studio B

    Louis at omega will do you front ported if you ask him. Here is a front ported compact alnico monitor: [ATTACH] He also seems to have a new "K8"...
    Post by: Garns, Dec 27, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    EC Aficionado (was: The Studio Jr.)

    Nice! Yota I would humbly suggest that to get the maximum perceived benefit from my amazing mod you need to duplicate the other carefully tuned...
    Post by: Garns, Nov 25, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    EC Aficionado (was: The Studio Jr.)

    Point taken! Though the surfaces are heavily burnished, so I think they are more likely to polish it than scuff it. I actually use the piece of...
    Post by: Garns, Nov 19, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    EC Aficionado (was: The Studio Jr.)

    No I do not! These are flat against a straight edge so I would have thought the contact area is enough to stop this happening?
    Post by: Garns, Nov 19, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    EC Aficionado (was: The Studio Jr.)

    Best value for money upgrade ever: [ATTACH] Two bits of stone on the top plate. It's not magic rock, just rock I had lying around. One is a...
    Post by: Garns, Nov 19, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    Pictures of your speaker system

    Speaking of which... we decided to repurpose my listening room/office as a kitten nursery "for a few days" while our resident cat gets used to...
    Post by: Garns, Oct 8, 2023 in forum: Speakers
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    Schiit Urd Impressions

    I used that cable USB A to B and it's decent. However into Yggdrasil I found I preferred the one from Ghent Audio. He will do USB B to C now as...
    Post by: Garns, Oct 7, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    Rockna Wavedream DAC: Awesomesauce

    @animus did a detailed comparison here. Or if you are going to be giving fat bucks to a dealer, may as well make them work for their dollarydoos...
    Post by: Garns, Sep 22, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    Streamers in 2023 - Discussion, Impressions, etc

    I think you have it bass ackwards. A DDC turns one kind of real time digital audio stream, USB, S/PDIF, AES, I2S into another kind (or the same...
    Post by: Garns, Sep 14, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    Streamers in 2023 - Discussion, Impressions, etc

    Wavelight Server now available at $6k US. Oof.
    Post by: Garns, Sep 13, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    Is there a pattern between blacker background and less resolution?

    I mean I guess I'm a fan of measurements that convey time domain information. My thought is that this is like a ladder linearity measurement but...
    Post by: Garns, Sep 7, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    Is there a pattern between blacker background and less resolution?

    How is this for a simple test? Record a low level signal (maybe a plankton exemplar) through the chain Re-record shifted 6 bits to the left (or...
    Post by: Garns, Sep 6, 2023 in forum: Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers
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    Distortion Surface: old measurement, new approach

    Truly amazing stuff! Some other ideas: Your D2/D3/D4 plots but with phase in place of amplitude along the z axis. IMD plot: frequency a vs...
    Post by: Garns, Sep 4, 2023 in forum: Audio Science
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    Schiit Mjolnir 3 Impressions

    My Aficionado barely gets warm to the touch. Yes, the tubes get hot but I mean so does a 10W tungsten lightbulb.
    Post by: Garns, Sep 3, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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    EC Studio Junior (not AF)

    Oh well. Worth a try!
    Post by: Garns, Aug 28, 2023 in forum: Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units
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