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post #16 of 245
9/18/12 at 9:36am
Wow!! Anyone hear a release date or price for that badboy:D??
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post #17 of 245
9/18/12 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by DanBa View Post

Yes, the internal DAC of the S3 is bypassing:

 

stock Samsung Galaxy S3 > digital audio stream >> USB OTG cable >>  Predator USB DAC  >  Predator amp >> headphone

 

Am I to understand that this is bypassing the S3's internal amp as well as it's internal DAC?
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post #18 of 245
9/18/12 at 2:36pm

Yes, the Android-powered smartphone Samsung Galaxy S3 can output a digital audio stream to a good external standard USB DAC and a good external amplifier, more efficient than the internal DAC and the internal amplifier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will  find a list of USB DAC reportedly interworking with the Samsung Galaxy S3 at the following post:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/300#post_8700170

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post #19 of 245
9/18/12 at 5:00pm

I'm gonna blame the lack of coffee but I understood the process much more after those pics than before. Thank you.

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post #20 of 245
9/20/12 at 6:36pm

so the dac part, the balanced dac only for usb input?  only? 

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post #21 of 245
9/21/12 at 1:40am
i've waited a while for this. Awesome.
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post #22 of 245
9/24/12 at 2:58pm

Just saw it, interested.

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post #23 of 245
9/29/12 at 8:37pm

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post #24 of 245
9/29/12 at 11:15pm

 

This is Ray Samuels himself introducing his new portable headphone and DAC combo unit called the INTRUDER. The portable unit includes both balanced and unbalanced output and inputs. It has quite of bit of gain for a portable headphone amplifier and should provide plenty of juice for even the most power-hungry headphones.

 

They did talk about HE-6 during the interview and mentioned something like 1 ampere of voltage at the end.

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post #25 of 245
9/29/12 at 11:54pm

I assume it'll be a higher gain sr-71b with a DAC

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post #26 of 245
9/30/12 at 6:18am
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I assume it'll be a higher gain sr-71b with a DAC

 

Ray brought it to our meet yesterday and the high gain is 21, which will drive the HE6s.  The low and medium gain were not changed so the Intruder can still be used with IEMs and other headphones not needing the extra gain.  Ray also mentioned it is not just a SR71B with the DAC.  He has refined it further.  I don't know the details of the changes though so I will have to watch his website when  he releases the information.  Todd R was already trying to negotiate with Ray as at the meet he indicated he felt it was definitely and step up from his SR-71B.

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post #27 of 245
9/30/12 at 9:38am

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Edited by Audio Addict - 9/30/12 at 9:40am
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post #28 of 245
9/30/12 at 9:45am

hopefully the extra changes doenst intrude the cost into the region of 1k.

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post #29 of 245
9/30/12 at 12:34pm

I have a question here. 

Can you use the alo cable for sr71b to get a balanced input? Since this thing comes with a Dac right?

so in the video above, is Ray Samuel bypassing the Dac section of the amp when using that configuration?

I'm just confused.

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post #30 of 245
9/30/12 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by czqdtc View Post

I have a question here. 

Can you use the alo cable for sr71b to get a balanced input? Since this thing comes with a Dac right?

so in the video above, is Ray Samuel bypassing the Dac section of the amp when using that configuration?

I'm just confused.

 

I am not sure I fully understand but I believe it is a USB DAC only so if you set the switches to use it the single ended or balance input, then the DAC is not in the loop and it is very similar to the SR-71B with a few additional changes like the additional High Gain of 21.

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