I'll try to audition all of them as the resident PSB guy, with M4U 1, 4, and 8's currently. Pushing wired with Violectric v200 from a Bryston bda3 fed from Sony blu-ray over HDMI. Been PSB since mid 90s with a pair of 800i for FL, FR in a basement theater, now 3x T2s for front LCR, wclr2...

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FOR SALE: Like New low hours Topping D70 DAC $395 USD or Best Offer + $20 USD Shipped UPS Ground Standard Excellent AKM based DAC with all in inputs and outputs needed for High End sound Optical, coax, AES and USB digital, RCA and XLR Balanced outs Topping D70 Marketing info: - Input...

I need some suggestions for music tracks to audition with my newly acquired HD800 (not HD800s) phones. Bought secondhand from a local meticulous audiophile who upgraded to HE1000SE's to keep his Focal Utopia's company when he's away These are like-new tricked out HD800's (which he preferred...

...that glow was from the dilithium crystal :)

Nice that *somebody* appreciated the cheap seats :)

This was my first Headfi meet, first dedicated headphone meet for that matter ;) Thanks to Paulson's for hosting and food! My first time at Paulson's, too. Awesome venue with great theater demo rooms, as HT is my primary A/V hobby. NIce to have my first look at an Epson laser projector with...

I plan to attend and bring: Bravo Audio V1 Tube Driven Headphone Amplifier https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A2QKTLW/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 TOPPING NX1A Portable Headphone Amplifier https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HFMNR4M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1...

Quote:   My votes are for Xubuntu or UbuntuStudio   http://xubuntu.org/ http://ubuntustudio.org/   UbuntuStudio is designed and intended for audio production and editing work, with most known audio tools, apps, utilities and drivers preinstalled, plus a kernel tuned for low...

Quote:   I think the guys at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ might take issue with such "precise" technical jargon :)   Given known electrical engineering, acoustics and digital audio science, I'm personally convinced that anything more than 20bit/48Khz PCM is unneeded for...

Trivial drag and drop or select flacs in file selector and burn with auto conversion in K3B   http://www.k3b.org/   in Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic

How to downmix 6 channels to stereo? http://www.head-fi.org/t/439718/how-to-downmix-6-channels-to-stereo   http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Need recommendations for best sub-$100 USB headphone amp/DAC to match best ~$100 headphones, taking into account driving capability/matching.  Prices may be for used.  Under $100 for each is target.   Headphones under consideration from the "Best ~$100 Headphone thread"   AKG K240...

To refute the "linux audio is a mess" complainers, often mockingly depicted-   http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jLXOZF_0txQ/T6K3HZ_3JII/AAAAAAAABrw/y-4zbxrWw-E/s1600/linux_audio.png   http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/linux/audio-mess.png  ...

In theory, it should be possible to hear the same bitstream on two devices simultaneously, one bit perfect via a USB DAC and duplicated on your PC internal soundcard to its analog output.   This would be functionally similar to how any low cost set top CD/DVD player sends bit perfect PCM...

What are the favoite mpd front ends used around here?   http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients#GTK.2B   If one was to use mplayer2 for bitperfect gapless playback, what are the recommended GUI's/frontends for mplayer2?

Quote:   I was just trying (unsuccessfully) to be facetious ;)   My understanding is that "bit perfect" audio output means that there ought to be no difference in the data/bits being presented to a DAC, regardless of OS/app (other than jitter magnitude). Once the claim is made that...

I was just trying (unsuccessfully) to be facetious ;)   Besides "linux", this thread's subject is "Bit perfect" output.   My understanding is that "bit perfect" audio output means that there ought to be no difference in the data/bits being presented to a DAC, regardless of OS/app (other...

I don't understand- doesn't the default iTunes player/backend do bit perfect playback, i.e. no re-sampling/etc?

Apparently, "bit perfect" output from a Mac to a USB DAC "sounds better" than bit perfect output of the same file/data from Windows or a Linux PC to the same DAC-   http://www.head-fi.org/t/553416/bitperfect-was-audirvana-alternatives/690  ...

Does this forum support sticky threads?   This thread looks like a good candidate.  Perhaps a thread that keeps current with the top recommended audiophile grade music players on Linux would be a good reference for noobs.

Don't know how good you guys got it now- the state of bit-perfect output with common sound cards and stock drivers/media players back on Windows 9x/XP in the late 90's/early 2000's was abysmal- undefeatable hardware 48khz resampling on SoundBlaster Live's, anyone? ;)

Thanks for the input- I hadn't done a deep dive on foobnix re: functionality like gapless playback (important to me) or what backend it used.  Not being able to direct sound playback to specific hardware devices like the ALSA methods in this thread is a dealbreaker.   Nice to see how trivial...