Can anyone tell this soon-to-be DAC owner if the digital output signal from the computer is provided before or after the DSP? In other words; will any Dolby Headphone or crossfeed plugins and/or drivers work on a standalone DAC? (This should be a straight forward question, but I seem to have...

I used to be in heaven. Musical heaven that is. Blissful sound from HD595 directly from computer or from CD/DVD via Cute Battery amp. Very natural sound and a sound stage similar to opera nights in Sydney Opera. Then evil reared its ugly head: I started wondering what could possibly be...

I LOVE Dolby Headphone when listening to music from the computer. It is pure bliss for acoustical instruments and natural sound. And I would like to have a similar experience when listening to opera DVDs and music CDs directly from the DVD player via a headphone amp. I suspect that crossfeed...

Howdy All I have experienced a weird problem that I hope you good people can help me understand and possibly rectify: When playing a particular CD [Buddha-Bar IV Disk 2] on my DVD player connected to Cute Battery II via Audio Out (RCA) I experience tremendous distortion of loud passages -...