Posts by Brando

I don't hear any obvious hiss unless I turn the volume up to about -25db which is WAY higher than you should listen with.  I have it at -45 with the computer set to 100% output for the toslink output and it's loud enough. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by whereas  Running my Audioengine D1 to the receiver via RCA cables into the CD inputs seems to sound better than running toslink straight into the receiver from my iMac. There is more low...

So nobody knows of a reasonably priced card with a nice clock, spdif and good drivers??  I think I may have to invent one.  It'll be as cheap as I can get it while having the best sanely priced clock available, coax AND...

I can tell you that the noise floor seems to be about the same with the hk3490 headphone out and the one on my essence stx.  My ah-d7000's low impedance is the culprit I assume for the low hiss I hear.  Either way it's low...

Quote: Originally Posted by Headdie  Regarding the HK3490, you can try driving your Denon directly from the preamp out. I've done that with my NAD and it sounds good ! Never thought of that.  ...

Quote: Originally Posted by PurpleAngel  Have you tried updating your motherboard's bios? I have it on the second newest bios.  A new one came out 2 days ago but it won't update.  It keeps saying...

Yeah I have the newest drivers.  It looks like I may have a second set of bad ram from gskill.  I already replaced it once and assumed it was fine but tested it again and it won't run stable at rated speed like it did when I...

I'll give it a shot but the description didn't say anything about direct x stability or compatibility fixes in the driver.

I don't know if it sounds better but the stx drivers are causing stability problems with my pc and asus hasn't made a new one in a year which makes me wonder if they even plan on supporting it anymore.  If they're not then I can't...

Well, it's nice to know that I'm good to go with any phones I buy no matter how hungry they are.  This thing is a bargain for $300.  Plenty of juice for my speakers AND phones and no need for another dac as far as I can...