@Chris1967 TY the forgot password link was going to spam and this is the first time I noticed that -- I'm registering this thing almost 3 years after purchasing. Also, I'm so used to serial numbers being on a sticker in a corner that I never noticed it h/v centered in the rear in the same font...

1) yes 2) I just tested mine (RD-0 Signature modules) and both i2s ports are identical, which makes my Denefrips Gaia happy 3) I dunno, so I always selected stream so I'd be using the Gaia clock Does this DAC get regular firmware updates? Is there a public site for downloading them? Rockna...

yes I was using the Audio-GD DI-20HE (still have it), and it didn't lock i2s until kingwa sent me the settings. I can locate them in my email if needed. I ultimately got the Gaia for i2s, only because I was curious about their 50mhz clock and in silver it's case resembled the Rockna @ufospls2...

I bought fidelizer pro and I let it do all it's tricks - can't say I hear the diff. I got to try a Keces P8 single 8amp 19v tap. It's more expressive than the dual tap (4amp+4amp). I'm amazed how my 2017 r2r7 keeps rising to the occasion - it's by no means my weakest link. And like shark...

@macrog looks like it will only decode DSD over it's USB input

@Jackula wow the R7HE makes the discrete DAC sound warm? Sounds like the R7HE is for me! The Analog dac was super transparent+fast with very low ring like a 9038pro, but when you play a high pitch passage louder than it ought to be, I was somehow spared that moment of cringing fatigue...

@marcelnl The only affordable brand I know that starts from a block of aluminum like that is Matrix. My friend likes using their USB interface with the MSB. @sajunky (while on the topic of optical) EMM put their proprietary "Optilink" connection on both their DAC and streamer. It's just a...

@marcelnl old model uses one umbilical cord new one has two!

@DACLadder The new lineup is fully balanced but the "Discrete" model doesn't have the power supply and the "Premier" model doesn't have the preamp. For that you have to step up to the "Reference" ($40k). My friend grabbed a mint demo model of the obsolete single-ended version (w/ power supply...

your damn right I'm confilusing! Just now plugged into red and the r2r7 is sounding lovely :) Funny thing is I initially connected the MSB to red and got no output, so I switched right away, and it was futile from there. @DACLadder yeah he had the latest USB and SPDIF modules installed. I...

Today was the big day when my friend brought over his 2014 MSB dac. My usual routine is to keep the i2s home court advantage and feed spdif to the visitor, but the MSB didn't respond to the DI20HE's coax output. So I unplugged my junk and ran USB into the MSB. It was stunning. Then I...

@FredA you aren't interested in people learning the truth -- only that it comes from your words, and with each human mistake you just cover it over with your frankly, not necessarily, naturally inclined, my interpretation, not totally, may or may not, some may decide, not call it misleading...

I emailed Kingwa this morning and just now got a response I doctored it up to look like a head-fi interaction the takeaway is the entire analog path runs in symmetric balanced

@DACLadder yup it's the same MSB from 2014 -- but with their latest usb/coax/fw. The shootout with my 2017 agd will be on pay-per-view @jase01 Larry said the issue doesn't apply to the 200w. Is the P8 within your budget?

@DACLadder I understood differential to always put pin1's antiphase on pin2 (I'm calling it antiphase, but I'm seeing the terms "inverted polarity" and "symmetric" used as well) I understood balanced audio can be implemented with 0v on pin2 or pin1's antiphase on pin2 With 0v on pin2, the...

we're safe so long as the revisionist historians are incapable of contributing to those STEM articles. when seeking the truth the onus is on us to determine which sources that have it vs those who think they have it, or worst of all, those who consciously swap the truth for something they like...

I know a preamp can have an XLR output and not be true balanced end-to-end (an opamp splitter can be used to convert single ended to balanced) Given that both HDMI and USB terminals are differential, shouldn't that mean it's possible for a DAC to be balanced from end to end? Among the AGD dacs...

jesus that's a horror story -- I'd need therapy if mine did that. Good thing about Larry is he responds immediately. I've never known him to be chatty or conversational, but once I had issues with a PC build and he loaned/mailed me a CPU that I could use to flash my mobo to the latest firmware...

My PC on the HDPlex (8amp 19v rcore) makes the sound relaxed and effortless, and pushes the performance further back (more distant). If you have a fatiguing element, this will mitigate that issue like dark wires would. My PC on the Keces P8 (4amp 19v torroid) makes the HDPlex sound reticent in...

1. win10=>matrix=>msb coax 2. win10=>matrix=>di20he coax=>msb coax 3. win10=>di20he=>msb coax wouldn't you want this ranked?

I'll ask my friend to bring the matrix with his MSB dac next week - i'm curious as well

this is good https://www.hairballaudio.com/blog/resources/diy-resources/balanced-and-differential He says... "balanced signaling" is 2 signal conductors "differential signaling" is 2 signal conductors, with inverse polarity on the 2nd signal conductor Then he says... "in audio" (I guess that...

TLDR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI ^F balanced (0 hits) ^F differential (10 hits) I'm struggling to understand the relationship between balanced and differential. This wiki paragraph says Balanced Audio is just the name given to the analog implementation of differential. Differential is...

do you have any links on this? I never heard of anything balanced other than XLR. @marcelnl I would have thought that if I2S works for rj45 and hdmi, then it must use at most 8 of HDMI's 19pins But that is not the case [according to this document PinkFaun sent me last year]...

(JRiver tips) flat line overflows has more body only use clip protection when doing up-eq (ex: Dirac VST plugin) on a poor recording with little headroom not recommended by JRiver, and nor me until this evening who knows what I upgraded for it to now have an appeal it definitely removes a...