Quote: Originally Posted by taso89 Card came in about an hour ago! Thanks NCIX on eBay Thoughts so far: I'm going to compare this card to what I know: Zero DAC with Earth HDAM, Xonar DX, Sansa Clip. The card is CLEARLY superior to all three, including the $200-ish Zero with...

gloomy and boomy.. to each his own i suppose. gonna wait till im at school so i can test my darkvoice and zero dac till I try replacing anything.... sounds good imo on an old NAD amp.. but maybe I'm just a bass head

im sure you could do it with it connected... but some of them will have to be removed while doing maintenance, makes things soo much easier..... you'll see once you pop them open BTW where did you get those pads Shoewreck? are they comfortable?

http://www.akg.com/mediendatenbank2/...d5815555d1.pdf read the directions on how to dismantle it. the beginning is tuff getting that white plastic shelling off, but once that is off, its a breeze. some rudimentary soldering abilities are needed though btw... its not as complicated as it...

went ahead and took one tape off each driver. bass has increased to an enjoyable level without sacraficing clarity my cans have had over 500 hours of burn-in but this mod has truely opened them up for the better.. highly reccomend this to those looking for that extra bass these cans...

I know its early but has anyone figured out the voltage supplied to the main opamp? Ideally it should be 9v or above for descrete opamp options.

I use AKG k701s with a darkvoice 336i.. very nice sound with a good source have also tried an older NAD solidstate amp and it doesn't sound half bad, bass is more pronounced

Quote: Originally Posted by Alydon I'm gonna wait until I give the card a week or so to fully burn in and then I'll probably order the Sun from the link you provided. I've never tried a discrete opamp before so now I'm curious. And $30 seems like a decent price. Incidentally, if I...

personally, my recommendations are: Boards of Canada Aphex Twin Autechre Four Tet Squarepusher Plaid start with those.. some of the best

I'm also interested in one of these... Audio-GD makes nice discrete opamps and I have heard good reports on their amps and DACs. their stuff tends to be neutral sounding and transparent, nicely detailed without sounding too analytical

someone needs to try a discrete opamp in one of these. hopefully it has enough power for one, I know some who have used them in Auzentech cards and loved the sound. works wonders in the ZeroDAC aswell

also sorry for OT but has anyone here experienced the DAC-100? I own a zero atm but the amp stage is useless to me now that I have a darkvoice 336i. how does this dac compare to the Zero assuming they are both fitted with descrete opamps?

sweet... Kingwa really takes care of his customers

I did some research on this and with the card you have, you must be cutting it close in minimum volt requirements for the hdam. I believe the Auzentech X-Meridian feeds its opamps 8v (in comparison to 5v for most soundcards). where as on Audio-gd, they mention 9-25v as the recommended dose...

I'm trying out the HDPHX plugin. Was wondering, I'm upsampling using SSRC for my DAC.. should I have this first or last in the chain using foobar??