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Just a slight correction, the discount was calculated from the Ebay price, since bypassing ebay would net me a saving of roughly about 10 USD, and that was passed on to whoever that purchase directly from me. Audiogon price is the discounted price because they do not charge me a per-unit charge that ebay was.
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Hello Zycamaniac,
I'm from Hanoi, Vietnam and very glad to know about you and your Keces DA-151 Audiophile USB DAC (w/ the LME opamp upgrade). Pls let me know his shipping cost to Hanoi and the modalities of payment (Sorry, I have the Visa card but never buy the things on net. Electronic business is not yet popular in Vietnam).
My email: thanhtungdang@gmail.com
Thank you in advance!
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Has anyone had a chance to compare the keces 151 to a keces 131, connected via a stock X-fi card?
It looks like some of the modifications discussed in the X-fi mod are aimed at the path leading up to the digital output. Does this mean that the 1's and 0's of a bit perfect ASIO output, flowing from the X-fi's digital flexijack are actually being lost/corrupted absent these mods?
I would love to be able to keep my X-fi in the system to reduce the load on my cpu (as compared to USB sound) but I'd hate to cash out for a 131 only to learn that the DAC is receiving a degraded digital signal from the X-fi. In that event, I would likely lean towards the 151, or maybe a Trends + 131 combo.
Thanks for any comments any of you are able to offer.
Could anyone comment on this post? I'm in the same boat as he. I've got an X-FI ExtremeMusic and like the EAX for games and the card's fast cpu. If I'd get the 151 these things will go to waste. If I'd get the 131 I could still use EAX etc, however I don't want the X-FI to be downgrading the Keces.
To make things a little harder my X-FI recently started to crackle/pop. I'm 90% sure it is the X-FI since more people have this problem. If I'd use the digital out of my X-FI would it still crackle?
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Could anyone comment on this post? I'm in the same boat as he. I've got an X-FI ExtremeMusic and like the EAX for games and the card's fast cpu. If I'd get the 151 these things will go to waste. If I'd get the 131 I could still use EAX etc, however I don't want the X-FI to be downgrading the Keces.
To make things a little harder my X-FI recently started to crackle/pop. I'm 90% sure it is the X-FI since more people have this problem. If I'd use the digital out of my X-FI would it still crackle?
Hello, with DA-131 +LME49710 upgrade, it should be pretty easy for DA-131 to best DA-151's sound.
As for X-Fi, I think most of the crackling should originate from analog part, but I'm not sure since my X-Fi is not doing that.
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Anyone using the DA-131 with a Prelude (Coax out) for gaming?
I am thinking of going this route, but I will need to use very specific settings because I will be listening to music as well via Foobar+WASAPI plugin+ 16/44.1 wav files as the source.
Bit perfect will be achieved by setting Vista to 2 channel 16/44.1, setting the Prelude to 2 channel Audio Creation mode with bit perfect output and 16/44.1 spdif out.
This should net bit perfect for music, but not sure how games will sound. So...anyone using a similiar setup?
I am assuming this DAC will require an amp as well for best results right?
Hello, with DA-131 +LME49710 upgrade, it should be pretty easy for DA-131 to best DA-151's sound.
As for X-Fi, I think most of the crackling should originate from analog part, but I'm not sure since my X-Fi is not doing that.
Thanks. I'm also not sure about the X-FI. Something tells me it's in the analog line, but if it's not.. Meh.. The DA-131 with upgrade is 80$ more (compared to 151), right? Can you tell me what shipping would cost me to The Netherlands?
Zorlac, you need an amp. All a DAC does is making digital audio analogue.
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Audiogon price is the discounted price because they do not charge me a per-unit charge that ebay was.
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