Recent content by dbbloke
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HifiMeDiy Sabre USB DAC (UAE23) and AudioQuest DragonFly - Brief Comparison
Hi Earfonia, thanks for the review, nice read. I would love to know what your friends think, especially the one with the expensive setup or the sound engineer. How does it compare to other much much more expensive DACs. I guess if they like it's probably a good idea to sell and get the U2...- dbbloke
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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es9018, cheap dacs on taobao
Wow, constant updates. Love this site for cutting edge stuff. Seems you can now get the XMOS as a daughtercard for the DAC 1-9. So it's all in one box. From many reviews of his other gear, I can only imagine this with the 9018/4399 sounds much improved. And if you have a soldering...- dbbloke
- Post #7
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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es9018, cheap dacs on taobao
Would love to know your thoughts on sound quality preferably with some kind of comparison.- dbbloke
- Post #3
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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es9018, cheap dacs on taobao
Seems people use taobao agents to buy phones and other stuff from china now, and I just stumbled across some very interesting kit. I'm skint/in-between houses but someone might feel like taking a jump. All prices excluding packaging, and may require usb daughtercard, I guess the agent sorts out...- dbbloke
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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FINALLY, a signal processing app (includes EQ) for your OS's audio output (Windows and Mac)!
When I use headphones (HD-681 which have amazingly low bass but annoying treble) and other non-critical listening I use: Foobar - VST wrapper for foobar, Electri-Q I know you can get DIRAC but it seems expensive, maybe it's worth it? Let me know if you can try the eval, my main hifi...- dbbloke
- Post #18
- Forum: Computer Audio
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SMSL SD-022+ affordable DAC
Google is your friend. e.g. Found this page from many available. Wow, talk about money to burn, buying something withouth even knowing whats inside. Shame you didn't get a weiliang DAC9 (little pricey if you don't speak chinese) and tell us all about if this is the one of the best dacs...- dbbloke
- Post #2
- Forum: Computer Audio
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Is ODAC an upgrade to the hifimediy DAC?
I think that's for diy people, a bit cheaper on ebay. MUCH MUCH cheaper if you know someone who car speak chinese $160+shipping. I emailed minishow0328 on ebay the chinese link and got a price, was a bit more but not a whole lot. Yeah, of course depends if you need USB or to upgrade the...- dbbloke
- Post #22
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Is ODAC an upgrade to the hifimediy DAC?
He's got a DAC 8 out now btw. ESS9018. Must by far be the cheapest ESS9018 out there. Weiliang told me in SQ terms, DAC8 is better than dac9.- dbbloke
- Post #20
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Is ODAC an upgrade to the hifimediy DAC?
It's clearly because headphones all sound much better than speakers ;) Although to be fair, they are a lot smaller and cheaper to produce. But seriously, I would love to understand more about how headphones can do staging. Unless you are using binaural recordings headphones do not offer...- dbbloke
- Post #11
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Hifimediy USB Sabre DAC Setup Help
Thanks for the vlc alternative, will have a look :) As for gain, I know in theory you are supposed to set windows output at 100% and use the amp/foobar volume BUT... I read somewhere and I Think experienced myself some clipping. So backed the main windows volume output down a little and...- dbbloke
- Post #15
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Is ODAC an upgrade to the hifimediy DAC?
There are TWO hifimediy usb DACs. one in a box, the other on a cable. UAE23, UAE23+ I would hope the isolated + one is better. Not heard the others you mention, but have heard many sub £500 CD players sound worse. From how I hear DAC's, they seem to be steps in the SQ ladder. ...- dbbloke
- Post #9
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Hifimediy USB Sabre DAC Setup Help
I just plugged the DAC into this Win XP laptop just to test so I could help you. :) It's not my normal setup (whatever that is). Personally I run windows 7 on an HP N40L, 8GB, 4x2tb in raid 1. Foobar with wasapi and mostly FLAC / cue. As per my post here, The wasapi plugin is vital in...- dbbloke
- Post #12
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Hifimediy USB Sabre DAC Setup Help
I happen to just be setting up a Windows XP machine for a relative with a really old laptop. You should probably upgrade OS. but hey, I was surprised to see Pro uses 80mb of memory as well ;) and it sounds pretty good (even without PEQ for my HD-681 mk1's), no distortion or anything. In fact...- dbbloke
- Post #10
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Review by 'dbbloke' on item 'Hifimediy Sabre USB DAC'
I felt I had to write. I've owned this thing for about 4 months and just today I turned it on and it sounded what I consider real hifi (The difference between a good sounding best buy and high end kit). It's not real high end but it's getting there. There is so much more detail I could...- dbbloke
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24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!
Quote: Quote: It's impossible to discuss with people who don't listen to live acoustic music often, who haven't heard a well recorded 24/96 on a really good 2ch speaker hifi system but base their assumptions in science. :> And to note, probably the simplest and best way to...- dbbloke
- Post #934
- Forum: Sound Science