FredA
Headphoneus Supremus
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so the i2s input is the only input that bypasses Amanero?
If you mean on the dac, they all do except usb. Same with the di.
so the i2s input is the only input that bypasses Amanero?
With r2r7 I can flash the Altera and Xilinx FPGAs. I presume neither of those are the Amanero? Does the R7 2020 version let you flash the Amanero?
I know about this cybershaft bnc cables. But I dont know how good are they? May be they not much better then 8$ cables from amazon?
hundredAfter all- a picture is worth a thousand words.
The biggest improvements are with resolution, balance and soundstaging. Of course you need headpbones that can reveal the differences. With my setup, using the same silent computer (usbridge) to feed both through a silver usb cable, the difference is 4 notches, which means big. I use revealing silver litz IC between dac and pre and pre and amp, and a revealing set of loudspeaker. The difference is really obvious and welcome.At this point the R7-HE and HE-9 sound better with direct USB from my computer when using a reference USB cable than by way of the DI-20HE with a cheap USB cable (the one that came with the DI-20HE). If the the DI-20HE is fed by an equivalently good USB cable it does surpass the HE-7 fed directly by a good USB cable- even if the HDMI cable is not so good (I currently have a cheapo $2 HDMI cable only). I do not know the results of using a good HDMI cable in addition to a good USB cable on the DI-20HE because I am still waiting for a few I ordered.
At this point (without access to a better HDMI cable), I do not feel that the sonic improvement using the DI-20HE is gigantic vs. going direct from computer to DAC. I would call the improvement moderate.
The biggest improvements are with resolution, balance and soundstaging. Of course you need headpbones that can reveal the differences. With my setup, using the same silent computer (usbridge) to feed both through a silver usb cable, the difference is 4 notches, which means big. I use revealing silver litz IC between dac and pre and pre and amp, and a revealing set of loudspeaker. The difference is really obvious and welcome.
I ordered Oyaide Continental 5S V2 3.0m 5N silver from PC to Sotm UsbUltra for amazing 220$ newIf the the DI-20HE is fed by an equivalently good USB cable it does surpass the HE-7 fed directly by a good USB cable- even if the HDMI cable is not so good (I currently have a cheapo $2 HDMI cable only).
You seem well setup. Your usb and hdmi cables could be bottlenecks, other than that, maybe there is a lack of burn-in overall. You need close to a thousand hours on each gear.I'm looking forward to more improvements when I get some of the HDMI cables you recommended which have still not arrived.
Regarding cabling- I have pure litz silver and pure litz copper IC cables; both close to equally revealing, with the major difference being tonality. I also have Susvara and TC headphones- so I think I'm pretty well set up.