He is 16, give him a chance 16 is quite a ripe age to get upgraditis right? hehe!

As requested, these are not modded pic, a trace i did. Input decoupling (or as most ppl say output decoupling caps) are caps crossed with the green X. Also, output N-D-FET was removed on my card since it was damaged and could not find any replacement for a 2N4392 SOT-23. I removed all four of...

reading thru this (given link by eokboy) makes me itchy to jus get an av710 and flux burn it [WTB] 2nd Hand AV710!!

I have to say otherwise since the HD595 is begging for amplification..but it still can be drive quite efficiently without an amp. However, go for the mile if ur going for amplification cos i haf a few amps sumwhere in my room, tested them all on the HD595, a basic CMOY, significant changes...

as theDoctor said, true, the original sijosae AB is in open loop and u putting a resistor/led wont close the loop (its a whole different thing). I haf been having problem with the rail splitter beforehand and implemented a unity gain opamp to close the loop and control the feed, then saw this...

In my short life, i wasnt able to distinguish a 128kbps mp3 and a 192..after sum time, 128 sounds crappy, then 192..then 256..but sum 192 sounds great (cant AB to lossy..yet). but sum of my lossless is really bad compared even to the 192k and sum 256k is 99% tat of a lossless in my ability of...

I used to have Prodigy 7.1LT (almost similar to juli@, albeit losing the DAC part) and thru my worse setup back then (thru my Audigy 2ZS), a noticeable change is noted..so with ur good setup, im sure by juli@, u would hear improvement..the magnitude is uncertain however. The Audigy compared...