No difference between any of them, but the chunkier connectors allow relatively finer mechanical connections and larger surface areas which would presumably tolerate corrosion for longer before problems became audible.

Any modern PC soundcard, even many onboard adaptors, will work fine as a transport. Just use WASAPI or equivalent in the software to ensure no interference from the software and you're in business.   Jitter is a non issue with any DAC that's not essentially broken.   Co-ax is more...

  Quote: Good, people that blindly believe what their delusions order, and refuse to indulge any form of rigorous testing that they could be held against, should be insulted. I have no problem with that. It is an effective social mechanism which acts in the general good.   The world...

  Quote: So why don't you take the clearly more rational choice of "freeing" the forum in general from wild claims that border on insanity, and insist that any such claims are supported by certain verifiable (peer reviewable) standards?   Your argument simply doesn't wash, what...

P.S. If you offer free plug-ins for popular computer audio software, e.g. VST and Foobar plug-in, you will quickly accumulate lots of feedback which you can use to market for hardware implementation sales. Your website atm only seems to solicit enquiries for the latter.

I think lots prefer "normal stereo" when they first listen, because they are used to the unnatural channel separation and super wideness. It takes a week or so to adjust. The irony is you are not hearing "normal stereo" on headphones.   Quote: I could make one or two. What sort of...

You could try a Linux boot disc like Gnome or Knoppix, try to get some audio going, and see if the problem repeats. Fairly easy to download and burn onto CD. Have you tried Windows safe mode with audio drivers loaded?   However unless there are other Asus users on the net complaining about...

Pity about the sh!te quality of YouTube audio encoding.

Care to comment on comparison with BS2B ?   Quote:  

Quote: No, "we" are just illiterate.   Quote: Assuming there's an absolute cut off, with perfect hearing at 13.9 KHz and nothing at 14.1 KHz, then that's great, forgetting about harmonics - but it doesn't work like that does it?

You're missing the fundamentals. Either you have a recording of a X KHz tone or you do not. Moving the mic farther away from the generator will only decrease the volume. Or, you have various errors introduced by the analog recording, and you don't really have a pure X KHz tone. End of discussion.

The phone is wireless but was not in use; the handset was positioned on the charger. It is a fairly modern Panasonic unit. A vague idea of EMI is nice, but why would moving my hand close disrupt the effect?

I experienced a curious hum / buzz the other day, and narrowed it down to the DAC. It turned out to be caused by my telephone which was sitting next to it - move it away a few inches, and it faded out. The really curious part is that while the phone was there and hence causing the buzz, it...

The 601s do something similar. Plasticky might be a BS term, but I saw a guy on here once describe acoustic guitar strings as sounding like they were made of plastic instead of steel... that is semi-accurate. Something is very slightly wrong. However it's subtle! The lack of bass is the 601 and...

Be careful, it could just be the effect disappearing on a crappy amp. The K601s run directly from a soundcard sound weird, like the soundstage collapses. I assume because a bunch of things are not happening that should be. In this case you may actually prefer it because the vocals are not where...

I would rather like to know too. I have the K601s and they are nice, very detailed and a pleasant open soundstage. Bass impact is certainly restrained but the bass is there - just sounds 'open'. Mids are quite warm, female vocals very nice but alters other sounds such as acoustic strings...

My AKG K601s decided to have a stroke and the right side appears to be dead. I did nothing violent to them, always treated well and never over-driven. Just picked them up after they worked fine last time, and: dead as a dodo. Out of the 2 year warranty now. I have the service diagram with...

BBC News - Humans 'hear' through their skin I wonder how much of a fundamental drawback this is to headphones.

Quote: Originally Posted by deepsix I think the interesting thing that has come out in this thread is FLAC defenders going from the line that `FLAC is EXACTLY the same as WAV once decompressed!` to `FLAC only disposes of the NON AUDIBLE data in WAV files, everything you can hear is...

And don't be afraid to admit it when you can't detect a difference, LAME encoded MP3 done properly with a -v setting giving ~128 k is going to be indistinguishable from ~256 k on the majority of music. You'll probably need to track down known problem samples where you know there is a difference...

People use compressed formats on portable devices with limited storage. Get used to it.

Both are totally transparent with the vast majority of music to all people, regardless of claims. You can detect flaws at this bit-rate only with known problem samples. Go track down testing at Hydrogen Audio, AAC should in theory be slightly superior, but the differences will be trivial.

If it's not VBR then you are artificially restricting the encoder from doing its job on the tough bits, and forcing it to waste bits on easy sections, but the resulting file size will be the same. LAME for example is developed and tuned around its -vX settings, nobody cares about CBR. Ultimately...

Quote: Originally Posted by Vel Well, as I said, I don't know much about VBR so can't discuss it in depth. From what I gather it is set to a specific bit rate that is the average and varies around that. How much it varies and by what method I don't know. What I do know is that a lot of...

Vel the only way any compression format works well is in a VBR mode. CBR is only appropriate for restricted bandwidth streaming etc, you are not doing anything like a fair test. Your point re 320 is N/A because you weren't using LAME. You're comparing lossless to a compromised version of MP3...