nevermind   when i complete this setup its gonna knock the socks off the neighbors regardless of the outputs/inputs used   some put so much weight on this format but in the end if your speakers suck its gonna suck either way

anyone here owns ref7usb with the usb input converted to i2s 3.3v 96khz input ?   i may just go with this if ill ever need usb there are plenty of options

Quote: lol   just sent my wish list to kingwa   - ref 7 i2s input dac - i2s output di (digital interface) with multi inputs (optical/bnc/aes/rca/usb/i2s)   too much to ask of "multi inputs (optical/bnc/aes/rca/usb/i2s)" ?

before i order ref7 you guys think kingwa will release one last final reference dac with i2s input ?

ins and outs of my soon to be completed setup   comcast hd cable hdmi video+audio => hdtv nvidia gtx480 pc hdmi video+audio => hdtv hdtv => optical out optical in => audio gd ref7 dac xlr out => behringer b1800d pro subwoofers => behringer b1520dsp loudspeakers   instead of the...

dsp 8x pcm1704 no opamps just the sheer number of components and i can still customise it to my liking under 2000$ ?!?   fook me this is a steal!!!   ive read all 27 pages and the feedback from reference 7ers just sealed the deal for me   youve certainly made it easier thanks!

yeh but reviewers make one dac sound like an f1 and the other jitters like an horse carriage   anyways i totally agree theres losses everywhere from recording all the way down to hearing   all this audio tech just fools/tricks us into thinking thats what we want to hear   we are so...

im looking at dacs and i dont know what to say they all are bittersweet they all have +/- advantages/disadvantages they still jitter/performance could still improve im in need of a dac but none are really worth parting money on.. should i dig further ? those of you owning dac/s please any...

headphone/speakers directly driven would you recommend auricap.. cardas.. multicap rtx?

another great 8788 http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/so...3/#post4826783

opa2107 in/opa637 out - bg fk caps

im just having a lot of fun with this mx300 2x 2200uf bg nx/26x 47uf bg nx all paralleled so what do the paralleled caps do? the 10year old mx300 beats the crap outta any modern sound card without a sweat dont have to believe me tally: 100$ mx300 + 120$ caps + 10$ opa4132 =...

16bit 24bit 32bit OscilloMeter 24bit better? gimmie 32bit!

Quote: Originally Posted by Daroid Look out for something with the lowest series resistance (ESR) as possible. A resistance is a lossy component with a noise proportional to Boltzmann's constant. You can say that any resistor consists of a voltage source and the resistance. You want to...

yes! so thats the siemens cap ive been reading about but had no idea what.. whatta beauty.. that will just fit snugly on the xmeridian lol

Diamond Monster Sound MX300 recapped OPA4132 T-cap 3x 470uf BG N - HT Omega Claro+ AD8620 Z-cap 2x 1500uf BG NX - Prelude OPA637 No Caps Total Recap - AD797 1x 2200uf BG NX/3x 220uf BG NX/9x 1500uf BG NX/30x 47uf BG NX - AD8620 Prodigy HiFi - 2x 4700uf BG...