In my opinion the best results can be achieved with this effect chain in foobar2000: 1. Channel Mixer (6 output channels, upmix mode off) 2. VST Bridge + V.I (default settings) 3. Dolby Headphone (recent dolbyhph.dll is bundled with the trial version of PowerDVD 8) There's one caveat...

I've prepared a sample archive (35.6 MiB) to compare both players. There are six samples à 30 seconds. Three belong to the e280 and the others belong to the Clip. I've called them a[1-3] and b[1-3] so that you don't know which is which. I recorded the samples with 21 ohms load, official...

These are the EQ settings I used to get a linear response: Code: eq enabled: on eq precut: 130 eq band 0 cutoff: 20 eq band 1 cutoff: 200 eq band 2 cutoff: 800 eq band 3 cutoff: 11000 eq band 4 cutoff: 12000 eq band 0 q: 5 eq band 1 q: 10 eq band 2 q: 10 eq band 3 q: 10 eq band 4 q: 5 eq...

Quote: Originally Posted by DoomzDayz this software looks interesting.. can it also be used to test DACs and AMPs? Look here for further information.

With the default firmware's EQ it was not possible to get a (near) linear response. But Rockbox did the trick. After some fiddling with the EQ settings, this is the best I could achieve: e280 + Rockbox + EQ (-13 dB) But this comes at a cost. To make sure that no clipping occurs due to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by sigsegv0x0B As you can see yourself the clip performance is better. The frequency response is more linear. So clip is better. But I do hope you understand now how much difference this makes. Yes, the Clip is the clear winner. But do you think that a...

Here are some more results. This time I used 32 ohm headphones (Alessandro MS2). e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared)

Here are the first results. The tests were done with 21 ohm headphones (super.fi 5 Pro). e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared)

I'm still waiting for the cable. It should arrive tomorrow.

Quote: Originally Posted by sigsegv0x0B OK now do a loaded test while driving headphones. Get a y splitter and 16ohm headphones. Connect the Y-Splitter to the DAP audio out and to one end of the splitter connect the 16ohm headphones and to the other end connect to the sound card...

I saw many people here complaining about the audio quality of the e200 while praising the Clip for its superiority in this regard. I ordered both from Amazon and did an RMAA test. Both players produce very similar results: e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared) Afterwards I recorded a...

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Quote: Originally Posted by jterp7 haha not to scare the OP, but I'm on my third pair and it looks like whatever problems they had were fixed by the time the thicker cables/clear version was out in mid 06. Can that be confirmed by others? Is this problem really solved?

How does it compare to skipyrich's Tube Sound plugin (foo_dsp_tube) for foobar2000? Did anyone also try that?

@003: Did you really read my last post? Let me quote myself: Quote: Other cards support more than one sample rate but have no internal resampler (like my internal M-Audio Audiophile 2496). The software must take care of it by resampling all audio sources to one of the supported rates...