NuForce uDAC-2 Listening Challenge - Page 4

I lol'ered

where are the files? Can I join or is this over?

It's over insofar as the identity of the tracks has been revealed, and it looks like NwAvGuy removed the test tracks from his blog. Might be worth PMing him if you want to give it a try yourself though.

so which was which and which one won? :)

All the info is on nwavguy's site now. Since he hasn't posted here since March, you probably better try contacting him on his site: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/

Edited by dfkt - 5/15/11 at 9:30am

NwAvGuy is preoccupied at the moment with the amps at amb.org - he feels that a virtual ground (as used in the Beta22 and M^3) is useless and that the Mini3 specs quoted there are largely fictitious. Suffice to say a few sparks flew when he bought this up with Ti Kan on the AMB forums...

Yep, seems he got banned from the AMB forums... not a smart move by the AMB moderators, nobody benefits from that kind of 'censorship' instead of discussing the issues like grownups: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/amb-mini3-diy-headphone-amp.html

http://www.amb.org/forum/mini3-portable-headphone-amplifier-f16/somebody-isnt-happy-t1094.html

 

It seemed to me as if the discussion ended up in personal attacks; not sure if I would characterize that as "censorship" of a "discussion".

I tend to the "your forum, your rules" side, when it comes to bouncing people off your site, but it does seem like amb could have left nwavguy on the forum and let him deal with the criticisms of his test procedure. That would have been to everyone's advantage.

Just to provide some closure here, I asked on the AMB forums for a clarification of the matter. The resulting response, which hopefully closes the matter, is detailed below:

 

http://www.amb.org/forum/post10556.html#p10556

 

NWAVGuy.  I respect you.  Please keep doing what you do.  I like your blog, its very informative.

 

LOL, several of the first few replies are priceless. To paraphrase,

 

"Heresy! How dare he???! ... Catch him!"

 

That kind of reaction seems utterly familiar. Those from the German-speaking world who are aware of a certain individual and blog (a good bit more provocative than a down-to-earth guy like NwAvGuy could ever be) are likely to know what I mean. If you're into psychology, here's an ideal opportunity to learn more about human nature and how little we have actually changed in the past few hundred years.

Burn the witch!!  

I just checked back there again. And now that the wounds have started to heal, the discussion continues on in Willakan's AMB thread. It's been sensible, civil and objective, without any further personal attacks.

 

Yeah, the overwhelming majority of the tension came from NwAvGuy increasingly implying...in a stating-rather-than-implying sorta way- that AMB lacked the knowledge to do some basic maths with resistors and was clearly unfit to produce a Cmoy, let alone sophisticated amplifier designs.

 

EDIT: Also, the CMOY he bought off Ebay using a 0.50 generic opamp is apparently much better than everything else...don't let the fact it has no gain (yes, this amplifier performs wonderfully, but doesn't actually amplify anything) stop him from briefly pointing out this flaw then waxing lyrical about it for several paragraphs.

 

 

Edited by Willakan - 5/29/11 at 4:49am