Its nice you have found something you like.   I have been studying this power, source, dac, amp, and headphones business pretty extensively and pretty much it comes down to what you can enjoy with your sound system because everything pretty much add some kind of mechanical coloring to the...

Is there a night and day difference in sound quality using a single core or dual core with fidelizer?

Nevermind. I just went to audacious's config file and edited it to 10 ms. I also found out audacious version 2.5.1 has replay gain track ON as default so that wasn't good.

Fatdog64-521 has an "audio-all-in-one-amd64-10.sfs" with Qtrctrl to change latency settings but for some reason after using it and opening audacious, qtrctrl doesn't recognize audacious as a music player I can connect to nor does audacious has a jack output plugin that I thought could connect to...

TPA has a USB receiver that uses bus power and I'm looking for a USB receiver out there that uses an external power supply so I'm wondering if anyone else know a USB receiver like this or already using one in their TPA DAC configuration?   I'm looking for a non-TPA USB receiver that works in...

Hi.   I am wondering if there is a 64 bit Linux audio player out there with built in I/O buffer in samples, number of audio buffers, and buffer size to adjust latency in ALSA.   It would be great if the I/O buffer size in samples could go as low as 16, number of audio buffers as low as...

No. My Twisted Pear Dual Mono Opus DACs are powered by their own linear power supplies. I connect my computer's sound card's coaxial digital output to my DAC's coaxial SPDIF receiver.   The CPU controls everything in the motherboard so I am pretty sure it is the cause aside from the power...

It could be the voltage regulators in the switching power supply and the voltage regulators in the motherboard suck so undervolting the CPU changes the sound.

AMD Athlon 64 3700+. Cool n Quiet lowers it to 1.1v 1ghz so I had to disable it to try 0.8v and 1ghz. I don't have any equipment for objective tests but my ears could hear the difference immediately.   Well, this doesn't have to be a fix for anything since some people may want something like...

I don't have the know how to build something like this or software engineer skills to program it so I'm pretty much looking for something already made or being developed. I think this RAM/RAM interface should come after the USB/toslink/coaxial spdif receiver in your DAC to receive the data then...

I have tried undervolting and underclocking my CPU and it sounds a lot better that way. Some CPUs might not boot up but if you can undervolt it to 0.8v and 1ghz then it should sound better than higher volts and higher clock. I have also read about people using linear power supplies at the P4...

I am wondering if you can add RAM and a RAM interface into your DAC to store the music file there temporarily to play it then automaticly delete it.   This idea came to me because I think the CPU imprints it's own sound signature while processing and buffering the music file into your DAC. I...

I just discovered a few days ago using linux sounds better using my sound card's coaxial output to my DAC but I'm not sure about USB since I don't have a USB receiver. I think the benefit is it loads completely into ram since it is so small like 200mb compared to windows 7 x64 that is 10+gb. I...

According to Hifiduno, does bulk transfer mode not really affect jitter in how long the usb cable is? Is there a way to tap the board for SPDIF output since they replaced the coaxial spdif output to that mulink? I like how they're using a oscillator now instead of the crystal. It would be nice...

Why does their SPDIF receiver have 4 I2S options while their current USB receiver only allow 24 bit I2S? Shouldn't the USB receiver just allow I2S and 16 bit or 24 bit depending on the source?   If you play a 16 bit music file from the source to the SPDIF receiver using 16 bit I2S it seems...

The more I read about AC line filters it all seems like a game to me that adding more makes the sound in your audio system sound better to no end. It seems like no one knows exactly how much noise and what kind of noise, and how to get rid of the noise completely. It seems you can only lower the...

Have anyone tried a balanced power transformer with an AC line filter or RFI filter? Does it clean more power line noise and make your audio system sound better than using the balanced power transformer by itself? I know some balanced power transformers have filters been in but how would that...

1) Well, A few examples would be my headphone system plugged into the Equitech, underclocking and undervolting my CPU in my computer affected the sound in my headphone system, and using a separate power supply for my hdds and fans cleared away this annoying sound I had in my headphone system...

http://www.laventure.net/tourist/caps.htm#A   Would it be too extreme to use a mundorf supreme capacitor as an ac line filter? I don't know if it does noise suppression.

Does anyone have a link to buy the caps? Are they the best noise suppression caps for audio purposes you can buy?

I am not on a dedicated power line but a shared line so other electronics share the same power that should interfere with my system. Even if it is a dedicated line I fear that the power line noise comes from the power plant and the journey it takes to get to your home. The computer is my source...

The newest HRT II+ just got reviewed in 6moons as well: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/hrt4/1.html And the 6moons review of the Pro: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/hrt2/pro.html   I have never tried the HRTs but they sound pretty good from the reviews   I am currently using a...

Hi.   I am wondering if there is an expert out there that knows about power line noise whether it is from RFI or EMI or recently I've just heard about impedance mismatch or whatever the hell else can be introduced into power line noise that could interfere with your headphone setup as in a...

2.1 is out if anyone didn't know.

Does using a multi-core cpu compared to a single core cpu make the data sent faster so the audio data computed and sent by the cpu sounds smoother or something? Has anyone experimented with this?   On the flip side the CPU seems to be susceptible to RF/EMI so using more cores means more...