In my opinion the best results can be achieved with this effect chain in foobar2000: 1. Channel Mixer (6 output channels, upmix mode off) 2. VST Bridge + V.I (default settings) 3. Dolby Headphone (recent dolbyhph.dll is bundled with the trial version of PowerDVD 8) There's one caveat...

I've prepared a sample archive (35.6 MiB) to compare both players. There are six samples à 30 seconds. Three belong to the e280 and the others belong to the Clip. I've called them a[1-3] and b[1-3] so that you don't know which is which. I recorded the samples with 21 ohms load, official...

These are the EQ settings I used to get a linear response: Code: eq enabled: on eq precut: 130 eq band 0 cutoff: 20 eq band 1 cutoff: 200 eq band 2 cutoff: 800 eq band 3 cutoff: 11000 eq band 4 cutoff: 12000 eq band 0 q: 5 eq band 1 q: 10 eq band 2 q: 10 eq band 3 q: 10 eq band 4 q: 5 eq...

Quote: Originally Posted by DoomzDayz this software looks interesting.. can it also be used to test DACs and AMPs? Look here for further information.

With the default firmware's EQ it was not possible to get a (near) linear response. But Rockbox did the trick. After some fiddling with the EQ settings, this is the best I could achieve: e280 + Rockbox + EQ (-13 dB) But this comes at a cost. To make sure that no clipping occurs due to the...

Quote: Originally Posted by sigsegv0x0B As you can see yourself the clip performance is better. The frequency response is more linear. So clip is better. But I do hope you understand now how much difference this makes. Yes, the Clip is the clear winner. But do you think that a...

Here are some more results. This time I used 32 ohm headphones (Alessandro MS2). e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared)

Here are the first results. The tests were done with 21 ohm headphones (super.fi 5 Pro). e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared)

I'm still waiting for the cable. It should arrive tomorrow.

Quote: Originally Posted by sigsegv0x0B OK now do a loaded test while driving headphones. Get a y splitter and 16ohm headphones. Connect the Y-Splitter to the DAP audio out and to one end of the splitter connect the 16ohm headphones and to the other end connect to the sound card...

I saw many people here complaining about the audio quality of the e200 while praising the Clip for its superiority in this regard. I ordered both from Amazon and did an RMAA test. Both players produce very similar results: e280 Clip e280 & Clip (directly compared) Afterwards I recorded a...

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Quote: Originally Posted by jterp7 haha not to scare the OP, but I'm on my third pair and it looks like whatever problems they had were fixed by the time the thicker cables/clear version was out in mid 06. Can that be confirmed by others? Is this problem really solved?

How does it compare to skipyrich's Tube Sound plugin (foo_dsp_tube) for foobar2000? Did anyone also try that?

@003: Did you really read my last post? Let me quote myself: Quote: Other cards support more than one sample rate but have no internal resampler (like my internal M-Audio Audiophile 2496). The software must take care of it by resampling all audio sources to one of the supported rates...

Look at it from a different perspective: Sound cards are very different in how they handle sample rates. Some only have one fixed sample rate that they support. For example my Edirol UA-1EX external USB sound card has a switch to set the sample rate. If I want to change it I have to change...

I read that the latter is the case. It still resamples but it is said to be of a very high quality. According to this article "the X-Fi's core can run at two internal sampling rates, 44.1 KHz and 48 KHz, although it will only run at 44.1KHz in Creation mode, and if you specifically tell it to...

Quote: Originally Posted by maarek99 You really understood nothing did you? Did you? The sample rates you can set in Vista for the shared mode are only rates that the sound card can support natively (in hardware). It may be possible, though, that your sound card is "faking"...

Okay, I have read the article but I still don't get it because you aren't confronted with a series of single samples while listening (like a sample machine gun). That's how it is represented in the digital domain, but analog converters should smooth these out, so that it looks exactly like the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Seidhepriest What the hypothetical *average* human (or some other mythical creature) hears consciously, doesn't matter at all if only because the frequency bandwidth determines how much detail can be accurately transmitted (as it has already been written...

Quote: Originally Posted by riceboy Let us know what you think about them when they arrive They arrived yesterday. As I listened to them for the first time I really had a "wow" feeling. I quickly changed the headphones to my old pair just to see if the headphones really caused...

I have a USB audio interface and don't experience your problems. I even play demanding 3D games while listening to music at 96 kHz. Never caused me a problem in Vista. And I don't even have a great CPU, it's still a single core unit. Did you install up-to-date drivers for your video adapter...

Well, I consider simple triangular dithering to be good enough. It kills any harmonic distortions and has a noise floor of about -90.32 dB in 16 bit samples and -138.51 dB in 24 bit samples. That should be quite sufficient for a real time dithering algorithm. Update: I tested the algorithm...

But why don't the resamplers in Audition or other professional audio applications use linear interpolation if it is so much better? And why is a linear resampler generally labeled poor quality whereas other resamplers like SSRC or SRC "best sinc" are considered to be high quality? Explain that...

May it be some kind of optimized dither in Vista? Because the noise has negative values where the original signal also has. The same applies to positive values. Maybe that masks the dither a bit more? Basically the noise works this way: Randomly add 0 or 1 to a positive amplitude and...