[grawk]

use the knob on the duet for volume if you're listening using the duet as an amp. Otherwise, turn duet all the way up, and use your amp volume control.

 

[Currawong]

It's rather odd, on some quieter tracks, mostly the Thomas Tallis Lynn Records is flogging on the front of their web site, it hits the red and there's some obvious clipping. Not sure what is going on there. I'll have to check if it's actually the recording.

I guess the Duet is Flavour of the Month.

 

[grawk]

If it hits red, the clipping is definitely in the recording. Not unusual.

 

[Jaska]

Quote:

Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif If it hits red, the clipping is definitely in the recording. Not unusual.

If there were no lights on the Duet, I don't think anyone would worry about this

 

[grawk]

Yup. The lights are there for the benefit of people doing recording. Remember, the apogee is primarily designed to be used the way people used to use 4 tracks. Don't stress when the light comes on if you're listening to someone else's recording. They've screwed up, not you.

 

[mok]

red lights don't mean clipping for output. This device won't show you clipping, as far as I know. That is a digital peak dBFs meter - the highest led shows 0 dBFs which is the max clean value for digital output. Many if not all current popular recordings hit 0 dBFs regularly and it's not clipping - values above 0 would clip, but you have no way of knowing that with this meter. If you're hearing clipping, it is because of one or more of these reasons: your next stage is being overloaded. That is something that happens in the analog domain, post-DAC. To figure out if this is happening with 100% accuracy, you need the output voltage spec of the Duet and the input voltage spec (handling) of your next stage. Clipping could be present in the recordings - we can probably rule this out by playing that original disc in a good cd player - a known 'control' environment. Clipping could still be happening prior to the DAC if there is any positive processing going on. The only example of this that would be relevant is the EQ and Sound Enhancer settings in iTunes. Be sure you have these terrible things turned off. That's about all I can think of right now...

 

[Tarkovsky]

Could this be used as a pre-amp for say, the quad 306?
I'm hoping this is going to beat the hell out of the dac in my CA 540R and Mbox 2.
» Quad 306 Power Amplifier

 

[grawk]

Sure can.

 

[Tarkovsky]

That would be ****ing sweet. The real question is if I'm going to buy one do I sell my cambridge audio ca540r receiver...

 

[grawk]

if the receiver is doing nothing but acting as a dac and preamp. You can even have it direct analog ins to the outputs.

 

[pearljam5000]

i think it's possible to get the Duet working a regular pc,i'm not 100% sure, but it's worth a shot.

1.buy and install a PCI firewire card.

2.run a virtual machine( microsoft virtual pc, vmware workstation etc) and instal a mac OS on it.

i think this would work.

 

[grawk]

As long as you don't mind pesky things like doing things legally.

 

[feverfive]

Given where I am, I'm guessing the answer is "no", but are there any Duet owners who are driving phones exclusively w/ the Duet headphone amp? I'm curious what phones I should look at w/ my Duet amp being the only thing between my phones & Mac... Would, say, Sennheiser HD600's sound fine w/ the Duet headphone amp? Anything a little less high end, perhaps?

 

[grawk]

I had no problems with the sound of the 600s straight from the duet. I sold the 600s tho, so I can't check again now. I use the hf1s straight out of it right now. I'm ampless until canjam, vince vaughn kidnapped it.

 

[Tarkovsky]

I'm buying the duet and I have a pair of hd600s. I'll let you know how the output compares to my graham slee solo (a strong amp) and the hp output of my receiver.