Quote: Thank you for sharing your opinion with us but I can't help being perplexed hearing a general statement like "With Audiophileo usb2spdif, it's a good improvement over stock USB", because this dac is using the wolfson reclocker on the usb path too and according to the manufacturer...

Quote: Originally Posted by slim.a So you were suggesting to measure those usb to spdif converters (with a DAC) just for the sake of measuring ? Not because it would affect the sound which would ultimately come out of the DAC (and ultimately from your headphones) ? Anyway, this is a...

Quote: Originally Posted by slim.a There are a lot of reasons that make what you are asking very difficult to realize : First, a good DAC means using something at least as good as the Lynx Aurora or Prism Dream AD-2. Not many head-fiers have that lying around I believe. Second...

Quote: Originally Posted by slim.a I was also curious to see if there is a difference between transports so I made the test 2 or 3 months ago but the test were inconclusive and surprising so I don't believe I have mentioned it before. For my test, I used the EMU 0404 USB as a...

Again, you should excuse me, but I'd like some rmaa loop data with same dac fed with different transports. Marco

Someone who has a good ADC should make a loopback with RMAA. I should say, in addition, that I tried the Keces with the coaxial out of a Yamaha Motif Keyboard (wich is also a firewire soundcard), and directly connected it to Adam A7's wich as you know are good sounding speakers. Well the...

I think it would be useful for us to have some RMAA digital and analog loopback tests, for example using an rme or linx card for the input. I did some a while ago when I had my hdsp9632 and found some slight differences between the rme spdif and the motherboard one. Differences were in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by genpatton7 Nope, I don't use any EQing. Any other suggestions? I didn't mean eq, I mean stuff like album volume normalization etc, wich usually is default in that genre of software. You should check if your playback is bit perfect, though if the...

Quote: Originally Posted by genpatton7 I've been buying iTunes music for years and recently made the move to importing CDs via Apple Lossless encoding in iTunes. I definitely notice an improvement in instrument separation and overall clarity over 256 kbps iTunes Plus music, but most of...

I checked some Musiland reviews (chinese), and the performance seems good but not perfect. I think that for Spdif digital signal transmission there are some limit values regarding SNR/THD etc, a perfect digital output, when checked with RMAA for example (taking in account RMAA error), should...

Quote: Originally Posted by Aleatoris Don't do this. Chances are all your music is 16-bit. Just use that. You can try using software EQ to get your "optimum" sound. There is a stickied thread on how to EQ headphones on the full-size board. That would give him some room for...

Quote: Originally Posted by rastetter I'm new to these forums, and a budding audiophile (n00b), so forgive me if I'm repeating this topic for the 100th time or something. I have a pair of Sennheiser HD555's and I love the way the sound but I was wondering what I can do to make them...

Quote: Originally Posted by krmathis It should not matter if other hear and audible difference or not. Cause in the end only you can tell what is transparent to your ears on your headphone rig. Since you can not hear and audible difference then 320kbps AAC probably is enough...

Quote: Originally Posted by crossmd This I'm really curious about. Most of my FLAC rips come out to at least 900+. Lastly, it depends largely on a given track. Was it brickwalled in the studio? How well did you rip it? Was it verified? How good are your ears? There are a myriad of...

Are you saying that for some reason the spdif data your coaxial realtek out is sending is "better"?