music_man
Headphoneus Supremus
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moch, the 503 does have a better headphone amp. i only used these as a dac. i have much better amps than this. i understand not everyone can get both. in that regard the 503 is a very nice dac and head amp. if not going to mod the 503 is better than the 501 and probably the other amps you mention. it is very nice sounding for the price. i did not touch the head amp in my heavily modded 501 because i do not use it. my feeling is one component should do one job. again, i understand some have other considerations.
syg, that is jriver. it does it on other dacs too. i just put up with it. it has to do with the usb bus locking it up not the dac. well sort of. it is the communication between the computer and the device. it is running very fast on usb 2.0. there wil sometimes be errors. when the signal is locked there should be no problem. i do always use any dacs driver wrapped in the foo asio proxy you can find on sourceforge. many disagree but i find it provides better sound and more stability as it is a faster driver than most manufacturers offer with their dacs. it is that driver doing the heavy lifting then. should have less issues that way. ymmv.
syg, that is jriver. it does it on other dacs too. i just put up with it. it has to do with the usb bus locking it up not the dac. well sort of. it is the communication between the computer and the device. it is running very fast on usb 2.0. there wil sometimes be errors. when the signal is locked there should be no problem. i do always use any dacs driver wrapped in the foo asio proxy you can find on sourceforge. many disagree but i find it provides better sound and more stability as it is a faster driver than most manufacturers offer with their dacs. it is that driver doing the heavy lifting then. should have less issues that way. ymmv.