All correct. The meaning of autospawn has changed from spawn on boot to spawn on boot OR as required by applications which is obviously the better long term solution. Alsa has also obviously come a long way even listing USB devices by USB manufacturer then number so referencing a USB card in...

You are correct noknok23, changing the volume digitally does defeat the purpose of bit perfect audio as it by definition has to do modifications to the stream to adjust the volume and calculate the new bits. HOWEVER the difference may very well be inaudible right down to less than half volume...

Not by much, it could just be me thinking about it but im guessing the 2 port holes in the casing are the culprit. Comfort is a massive question mark at this stage. They have this weird hook shape to the body that feels somewhat sharp at first. Within seconds my brain seems to forget about it...

Cant speak for anyone else but i paid for faster shipping to Australia and it seems to have taken about 2-3 days from dispatch. I thought i was sent the wrong cable as getting the cable into the iems took way more force than my previous KZ's, so be careful when you get yours! So far i haven't...

ZSR in hand. Now to the testing!

That's pretty standard for putting phones that came before fast charging on fast charging ports. Older phones don't usually support more than 1 amp from a charger without overheating/ not charging/ causing issues like touchscreens playing up while plugged in. A lot of people in the android...

Way back when I bothered with tidal you could get lossless streams in the Kodi plugin with the tick of a box. Things however do change. Don't forget that chrome does its own resampling and mixing in its own engine before sending to the os layer. That said, chrome will happily output to alsa in...

Kodi/ anything that can stream tidal will do lossless bitperfect when pulse is disabled.

Pulses default resampling and mixing settings are rubbish. Especially way back on14.04.

Huge buffer sizes usually just delay playback while the buffer fills. Many devices use a buffer option that allows playback during filling to negate this. Buffers sizes over a whole lossless song are IMO pointless. Turning off swap and mounting root as read only can save SD cards from damage...

MQA's biggest problem is the "extra information" in the files would be unpacked by free audio players in no time, that's why they want the money up front. "But what about the profiling for individual DACs" you say. If your DAC is so innacurate it needs profiles to sound right you need a new...

Do we know what DAC the dot uses? All i can find is a unknown Texas Instruments chip. The CCA has a AK4430 which is known as a great chip solution. At least on paper the CCA is way better at audio, it has a decent DAC after all.

http://www.swamp.net.au Just wanted to share my love for this local company and their products. I use their interconnects everywhere I can including some custom made cables for types they didn't stock but I wanted (dual rca splitters for use in my vehicles sound system ). Everything is exactly...

There is a definite point of diminishing returns, and I feel it's about the $3 per meter mark (AUD). I have some cables of various types from eBay with 99cents and free postage that sound noticeably worse than any of my other cables splitters and joiners to the point my girlfriend could blind...

A5+'s are fantastic multimedia speakers aka nothing sounds bad on them, even tv sounds really good. They aren't the most resolving things in the world but they can still make your couch shake during movies without a sub which is always a plus. And of course all genres of music sound good, even...

Streaming is killing downloads. I only buy records for the cool large artwork and flac download link, majority of them will never spin.

The gap in power usage is huge, but it's still small for a modern smartphone/tablet/laptop. I made a portable wireless hard drive with a 10000mah battery and even sending hd video to multiple users it lasts at least a day.

Disable pulse and everything will use alsa in a first come first served basis. Pretty sure there are players with alsa support our of the box though, Clementine comes to mind.

I've only seen these devices on diy audio forums. Probably because of that fat Price. They had better have used a fantastic pot!

You are correct, I listed them backwards in the low volume section, but the power saving is correct. Poweramps use a bias method to switch to AB as soon as the load is too high for class A to not go full fireball, in reading it said a great class A has an efficiency of just 30%. Ouch.

It's way more complicated than I'm making it sound but: Class A always running, newer designs use Smart switching techniques to flick over to a class B stage when no draw is occuring (idle). Class A/B actually uses the class A side for amplification at lower volumes, then when the power is...

You can always measure to be sure, but most A/B Amps will use negligible amounts of power at idle, and smartly designed class A will "power down" when not in use to a B class type backup. In either case we are talking 1-10 Watts draw. Older Amps are known to both have no idle mode and require...

That's true, I also feel a certain level of the genius whether one off or by design in engineering is art. As a software engineer I used to have my desktop covered in "art" which was snippets of code that solved real problems in elegant ways, regardless of usefulness outside of specific use...

I'm surprised it took volumio that long to be honest, the exact same packages have been available for x86/arm all along. Not sure how I feel about wasting a whole x86 machine on single task like audio, especially given the mountain of drawbacks especially older x86 hardware has. Oh well, more...

I've never heard an amp that didn't sound better "modded" to bypass adjustment gear, for that reason I am in the complete opposite camp. If it has eq built in it better have a button to skip it all or a sale option that straight up leaves it all out. New school all the way.