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post #31 of 75
10/18/10 at 12:29pm

Great, atsukita, thanks for sharing!

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post #32 of 75
10/28/10 at 4:54am

I have two H120s that have been Rockboxed. I modded one to a Toshiba MK8025GAL 80GB with the super low profile IDE/ZIF connector from Libmart (Korea) and the other is modded with a IDE/CF adapter to a Top Ram 32GB CF card.  I use both as a digital source to feed a D10.  In addition, I use the CF modded one to record live music via the optical input and an external A/D (Modded Grace Lunatec V3 outputting an ANSR dithered 24 >16bit signal or modded SONY SBM-1).

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post #33 of 75
11/4/10 at 12:24pm

HMM, Please bear with me but WHAT is a METAL S/PDIF Out???

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post #34 of 75
11/4/10 at 12:52pm

I use my H120's digital output at home all the time..

H120 -- Lexicon DC-1 -- Stax srm-xh -- Lambda Nova

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post #35 of 75
11/4/10 at 1:04pm

Coax as oppose to optical, both are SPDIF.
 

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HMM, Please bear with me but WHAT is a METAL S/PDIF Out???

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post #36 of 75
11/4/10 at 3:53pm

THANK YOU wuwhere fore enlightening me on the differences between coax and optical in the S/PDIF domain. Now, what generally are the benefits to 'coaxing' an iRiver H1xx?? or is that fodder for another thread?
 

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Coax as oppose to optical, both are SPDIF.


Originally Posted by FLACvest View Post

HMM, Please bear with me but WHAT is a METAL S/PDIF Out???

 
 
 

 
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post #37 of 75
11/5/10 at 7:00am
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Now, what generally are the benefits to 'coaxing' an iRiver H1xx?? or is that fodder for another thread?


As I understand it, the advantage of straight electrical SPDIF is that there's no jitter introduced from the transition to optical and back.  The DISadvantage is that electrical cables are more prone to electrical interference, unless properly shielded.  I could be off a bit here, but that seems to be the gist of it.

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post #38 of 75
11/5/10 at 5:54pm

Packdog,

 

Thank you for letting me have that bit of info!

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post #39 of 75
11/8/10 at 4:23am
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As I understand it, the advantage of straight electrical SPDIF is that there's no jitter introduced from the transition to optical and back.  The DISadvantage is that electrical cables are more prone to electrical interference, unless properly shielded.  I could be off a bit here, but that seems to be the gist of it.


well not really, coax is coax, meaning if its coax the ground is on the shield, you dont get unshielded coax, if its coax it has a shield, signal and shield/ground are the only 2 connections. also for an amount of RF interference to cause issues with jitter over a 6 inch cable I think you have bigger problems to worry about.

 

another note, using coax from iHP1X0, slightly better battery life

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post #40 of 75
11/17/10 at 11:19pm
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Optical in irivers is not very good, that's true. However, you can mod h1x0 to have a coax spdif output (actually there is a coax out pad on the PCB, all you need is to rewire it to one of the jacks), and that will somewhat improve things. As well, if you use a good DAC with good jitter handling and good coax cable, you will get pretty good sound. There is no alternative to h1x0 as a portable digital source.


Do you have a pic of where this is on the board? I would like to mod one of my 120s.




Thanks for your instruction! Nice writing, I got more deep understanding about this part.
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post #41 of 75
11/19/10 at 5:28am

Running my old trustworthy H140 to and Ibasso D10 at the moment, thinking of upgrading to an d12 or maybe Boomslang+Toucan

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post #42 of 75
1/30/11 at 9:34am

I just got a Rockboxed iRiver H140 from a Head-fier and have used it a bit with my recently purchased Leckerton Audio UHA-6S DAC/Amp.

Sound is incredible, and the Leckerton design is very sophisticated.

This is a product which needs a lot more attention. Similarly priced to the iBassos, great build quality and (for those who care - I do) US made.

Full review will follow when I have some more hours with the unit.

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post #43 of 75
2/15/11 at 11:24am

So, i'm a new lucky owner of a rockboxed (3.7.1) H132 and have a few questions :)

 

-i have a FLAC folder with 16bits/44,1 and 24bits/96 files. Should i convert them before transferring to the iriver and what would be the more convenient way ?

-is there anyway to use the remote and external DAC (d12) or portable amp  at the same time ?

 

Edit : it seems that i can plug a normal jack in the optical line out. So i guess it's also a true line-out where i can put a portable amp ?

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post #44 of 75
2/15/11 at 11:32am

Is an H132 an H120 with a 32GB CF mod?

 

I am also interested in the answer to the second question. It was my impression that the iRiver converts all data streams to 16/44, therefore 24/96 wastes space with no fidelity increase, but this could be incorrect.

 

Welcome to the wonderful world of iRiver and Toslink, I will be taking my "new" one on the road for the first time next week.
 

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So, i'm a new lucky owner of a rockboxed (3.7.1) H132 and have a few questions :)

 

-i have a FLAC folder with 16bits/44,1 and 24bits/96 files. Should i convert them before transferring to the iriver and what would be the more convenient way ?

-is there anyway to use the remote and external DAC (d12) or portable amp  at the same time ?

 

Edit : it seems that i can plug a normal jack in the optical line out. So i guess it's also a true line-out where i can put a portable amp ?

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post #45 of 75
2/15/11 at 12:34pm
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Is an H132 an H120 with a 32GB CF mod?

 


 


Yes^^ The player automatically downgrades to 16/44 but is there degradation in the process (besides the mere file characteristic)

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