Talking about this one by Neutrik https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/na2fpmf. The 3rd pin is wired to ground, but I need to leave it floating. Does anyone have any experience? With regular XLR plugs it's a piece of cake of course but I've never used these adapters and will have to order blind.

As the Realtek HD audio drivers don't allow 88.2kHz S/PDIF passthrough on my Windows 8 HTPC, I've had to revert back to the generic Windows audio drivers.    Does anyone know what the difference for S/DIF playback is supposed to be between these? Are there some drawbacks when using the...

Is there a way to stream downsampled WASAPI (event) via Foobar2000 Server but retain bit perfect WASAPI on local PC WITHOUT having to manually change (sound driver?) settings each time? Here's the situation: 1. Local playback via S/PDIF to 24/192 capable DAC using WASAPI (event) works fine 2...

I just purchased a Yamaha A-S2000 integrated amp for my speaker setup. Besides being a terrific speaker amp, it turns out it also has a pretty decent dedicated headphone section so I started doing some comparisons to my Graham Slee Novo headphone amp. (DAC is VDA-2 from CIAudio and Cambridge...