Posts by Hancoque

In my opinion the best results can be achieved with this effect chain in foobar2000: 1. Channel Mixer (6 output channels, upmix mode off) 2. VST Bridge + V.I (default settings) 3. Dolby Headphone (recent dolbyhph.dll is bundled with...

I've prepared a sample archive (35.6 MiB) to compare both players. There are six samples à 30 seconds. Three belong to the e280 and the others belong to the Clip. I've called them a[1-3] and b[1-3] so that you don't know which is which....

These are the EQ settings I used to get a linear response: Code: eq enabled: on eq precut: 130 eq band 0 cutoff: 20 eq band 1 cutoff: 200 eq band 2 cutoff: 800 eq band 3 cutoff: 11000 eq band 4 cutoff: 12000 eq band 0 q:...

Quote: Originally Posted by DoomzDayz this software looks interesting.. can it also be used to test DACs and AMPs? Look here for further information.

With the default firmware's EQ it was not possible to get a (near) linear response. But Rockbox did the trick. After some fiddling with the EQ settings, this is the best I could achieve: e280 + Rockbox + EQ (-13 dB) But this comes...

Quote: Originally Posted by sigsegv0x0B As you can see yourself the clip performance is better. The frequency response is more linear. So clip is better. But I do hope you understand now how much difference this...

Here are some more results. This time I used 32 ohm headphones (Alessandro MS2). e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared)

Here are the first results. The tests were done with 21 ohm headphones (super.fi 5 Pro). e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared)

I'm still waiting for the cable. It should arrive tomorrow.

Quote: Originally Posted by sigsegv0x0B OK now do a loaded test while driving headphones. Get a y splitter and 16ohm headphones. Connect the Y-Splitter to the DAP audio out and to one end of the splitter connect the...