[gkl]

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I can't tell you this, because I only use the headphone.
 
 
 

Too bad. I hope someone else will have the same setup.
 
Is it at least dead silent when the volume knob is all the way down?
 

 

[feax]

yes , no sound when the volume knob is down.
And there is some "margin", the sound is off and then the volume knob is completely down.
(plugged with usb)
 

 

[leeperry]

So the front volume pots are digital after all?
 

Like I would buy/trust something like this from China........China!

Every opamp roller has bought stuff from this seller, he's very serious...this said, my fav opamp these days is OPA1641...good thing it's cheap coz my friend would need 22 of them, and the day they'll all have to be soldered on DIP8 dual adapters I'll most likely play dead

 

 

[isleofgeorge]

Hi guys,
 
Does any knows if you can route different signals to the headphone and to the speakers? I mean if is this a two channel sound card or just single? Wanna use it with my dj controller and have the speakers out as main out and the headphones out for monitor.
 
cheers

 

[feax]

Hello,

I made some tests with my essence one.

The best sound I can get is under windows(vista).
In the windows sound settings, you can adjust the usb output: 44 Khz, 96 Khz, 192 Khz...
If you choose 192 Khz, all your music will be upsampled by the PC and sent to the essence one at 192K.
The essence one will display the 192 K led.
The upsampling made by the PC is better than the one made by the essence.
But to have the best sound, you will have to use foobar2000 also.

Under linux, I can't choose 192K, linux sends the music always at 44Khz/16 bits, so the sound
is not as good.

With my settings under windows the sound seems better than with the STX.

I think the upsampling button of the essence will be useful, if you can't upsample with the PC,
and for old recordings.

 

 

[cladisch]

Does any knows if you can route different signals to the headphone and to the speakers? I mean if is this a two channel sound card or just single?

This device uses four channels internally, but this is only for the balanced outputs which have positive/negative signals for both left/right channels.
The external input always uses one stream with two channels.

 

[cladisch]

The upsampling made by the PC is better than the one made by the essence.

 
What kind of better? Subjectively, or did you measure it somehow?
 

Under linux, I can't choose 192K, linux sends the music always at 44Khz/16 bits

 
This sounds as if you're using PulseAudio.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#3._Setting_the_soundcard.27s_sampling_rate_into_pulse_audio_configuration

 

[isleofgeorge]

If it is 2x2 channel internally and I am feeding it through the usb port, it should be possibel i suppose.

 

[reiserFS]

Mine has just been shipped, I can tell you guys more in 1-2 days.

 

[cladisch]

 
If it is 2x2 channel internally and I am feeding it through the usb port, it should be possibel i suppose.

The descriptors say "bNrChannels  2".
Furthermore, the CMI6631 won't be connected with more than one I²S stereo output to the rest of the device.

 

[feax]

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What kind of better? Subjectively, or did you measure it somehow?
 
 
This sounds as if you're using PulseAudio.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#3._Setting_the_soundcard.27s_sampling_rate_into_pulse_audio_configuration

yes, subjectively, there's a big difference beetween the 2 oversampling..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

[morfeeus]

Utilizing the coaxial RCA analog output, I can see there are 4 swappable sockets for replacement in this path. Question: Is is possible to mix and match different opamps along this path. eg. Analog Devices and T.I. Burr Brown together???

 

[dynamics]

Wow.  I'm so glad I stumbled upon this thread.  I have an STX and love it, but I was thinking of upgrading to an external DAC and Headphone Amp.  I almost pulled the trigger on a couple of them.  I'm glad I didn't.  I am very excited to get my hand on this as soon it's released.  I hope it's before the end of the year so it will be a nice gift for me before the end of the year .  I know it's been asked several times already, but does anyone know any more updates about the official release?

 

[reiserFS]

It's shipping in Germany right now.
 
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Wow.  I'm so glad I stumbled upon this thread.  I have an STX and love it, but I was thinking of upgrading to an external DAC and Headphone Amp.  I almost pulled the trigger on a couple of them.  I'm glad I didn't.  I am very excited to get my hand on this as soon it's released.  I hope it's before the end of the year so it will be a nice gift for me before the end of the year .  I know it's been asked several times already, but does anyone know any more updates about the official release?

 
 

 

[morfeeus]

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