Hi again.   I read HDTrack's first few posts in real time, and yeah, they made some really bad mistakes in their response.  Of interest to me personally, this came on the heals of a friend of mine talking about the difficulty of responding to criticism on the Internet.  He claimed -- and I...

Thanks for the answer.  I must say I have learned a few new things reading from this thread!  As a HDTracks customer, I would echo lithium1085's sentiments.   I can completely understand your difficulty with Beck's album, given the time-lag and studio diversity involved with the recordings...

Hi.   I appreciate you participating on the forum here, and can't express how great it is to have a high-resolution alternative to the iTunes lossy juggernaut.   I did want to ask what you mean specifically by the above statement.  Are you stating that you have verified that the data...

  Thanks for the recommendation.  Never heard of them, but doing my due google diligence.  Pretty interesting -- and totally unique -- stuff!   Quote:   Great reply.  Really expanded my perception of the ESS chips, especially since this looks like a major red flag for my situation --...

I'm new to the thread, so I am probably asking a decidedly old question…. or two… or three... ;)   In your ranking, it's no secret you dislike the ESS Sabre chip.  Why is that?  In relation to the Invicta, you say the "SABRE treble is still there in the form of stridency…"  Can you expound on...

Thanks!  I would actually be leery of driving HD650s with something like the Herus, let alone HD800s.  But it's good you tried it out because given Resonessence's target customer, I bet compatibility with the HD800s is one of the first questions they get asked.   For me, it's actually a...

Can you give your impressions of the sound?  How did it hold up against its siblings?   I'm primarily interested in it as a DAC, with a run to an external amp.  That's one of the stated uses on Resonessence Labs' site and it would certainly solve any issues with the 800s (which I don't own :(...

My first post in a long while, but I'm up for a DAC...  :)   Does the Concero HD have any audible hiss, hum or background noise?   I have tinnitus, and it's easily aggravated by high frequency noise.   And while I've seen questions about Android in this thread, I didn't catch reports of real...

Quote: Oops.  Yeah, that's a difference all right.  :D   Seems like there are some relevant bits about jitter that really put that number in context.  The article at Stereophile and relevant bits follow:  ...

  Quote: Where exactly do you get this number?  Jitter of that degree is compete destruction!  And I get fine output via toslink to my V-DAC.  You can even see a wave-form test earlier in the thread which demonstrates accurate output from the Mac's Toslink.  Heck, I have a HiFace USB...

  Quote:   I have found that all the players I've tested will skip at some point, depending on RAM availability and disk I/O at the time.  Even Decibel skips and stutters at times, which it actually should never do since it has loaded the whole song in RAM, and transfer to CoreAudio...

  Quote: Possible Explanations.   Core Audio has a variety of features, all of which can interfere with the sound output if you are looking for 1-to-1 (and 0-to-0 :)) bit perfect output.  I'm not clear if you tested iTunes and VLC running concurrently, but any time hog mode is off...

I purchased a V-DAC, though I haven't demoed it yet.   The USB input is limited to 16-bit data and sample rates of up to 48kHz.  The USB requires a separate chip for that interface, and given the complexities, it's typically where DACs skimp, as littletree76 was referring to above.   The...

Thanks.   I've been over there.  The emphasis is more on the Capacitor Mod than tubes it looks like.  I e-mailed him a few days ago about my X-Cans V2.   I actually bought some 7308s after more than 1 million tons of reading about tubes.  Got my fingers crossed there, and I can follow up...