The manual says remote control works, but a physical remote is not included.

I have several of the Pro-Ject turntables and analog electronics here. So I can speak to those.   Everything is pretty solidly built. The electronics are heavier than you might think for their size. For the items that have pretty much the same design but different features (e.g. a built-in...

The LCD-XC is not as comfortable to wear as the EL-8 but it is a lot better sound quality wise.   Where did you buy the EL-8? You might ask your dealer if you can do an exchange and let them handle the defect situation of the EL-8 that has the buzzing problem. And while you are there take a...

Quote:   You should be able to Google for comparisons of the Neko Audio D100 Mk2 to the Benchmark DAC1 to answer your first question regarding the difference in sound. I know there are many people who have compared the two. There is also a loaner program and free trial period for the...

Another scenario is using multiple DAC chips for a single channel.   Running a single channel off multiple DAC chips also increases the voltage or current for that channel which can improve measurements, relative to running that channel off a single DAC chip. But there can be disadvantages...

Quote:   Thanks for the shout-out, s1rrah. :)   The D100 Mk2 uses a pair of PCM1794A DAC chips, which are 8x oversampling. It does not upsample, by design. Rather than hijack this thread, if you have any questions feel free to PM me or start a new thread. The latest Head-Fi thread on...

Great meet! Great people! A special thanks to CEE TEE, Miguel (I think I got that right), and I'm afraid I don't have the name of the guy who helped me out after the show.   I had some great conversations with lots of different people. :)

Cool. :) I'd prefer the quieter room. Thanks!   Right now the plan would be to bring my D100 Mk2 DAC, the DNA Sonett headphone amp (single-ended), and a pair of Audeze LCD-2 cans (stock cables).

Yeah, MOT == member of the trade. I was at the Head-Fi meetup in Burlingame last year, actually right next to AMB. It's not clear to me from the first post if that's still a go at this meetup so I thought it best to ask. I'll wait for CEE TEE's word.

Will MOTs be welcome? I just found out about this but I can probably make it to Burlingame again this year.

Quote: Thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate getting the chance to listen to the LCD-2. :)   The Logan room was a little light on traffic, but I had an great time meeting a bunch of forum people for the first time and hanging out with Hyo, James, and Kay from Phiaton and Marcel...

FWIW, I got a chance to listen to the Audeze LCD-2 headphones with ALO's cabling for a few minutes, and I did not feel as though they were wired out of phase. Admittedly I am much less experienced with phase mismatch in headphones than with speaker setups.

Quote: Originally Posted by limpidglitch I think I will conclude with that as long as it's correctly implemented, neither method of transfer has any clear advantage over the other. That's basically what I was getting at. You can find bad and good examples of either...

Quote: Originally Posted by limpidglitch In that regard I gat a little worried when I read the section in the TONEaudio review when it was mentioned that compared to coax optical will always be a little inferior. I've stumbled over similar utterances across the web, but always discarded...

You probably want to post this in the DIY section. Maybe a mod can move it. You don't need to use a re-clocker before feeding S/PDIF into the DIR9001. But if you wanted to, then a re-clocking module would take S/PDIF input and also output S/PDIF. There are some S/PDIF receiver chips that...