Locate your nearest pro audio shop (the ones that sell studio equipment) and pick a pair of powered monitors there. I have been using the decidedly Mid-Fi Alesis M1 Active Mk2 monitors for about 6 years now and they are supremely enjoyable. Adam audio or even Mackie would be even better...

Quote: What ? Be specific, man. Nobody owes you anything. If you have specific questions ask them, or even better, follow that link and find out for yourself.   V.  

Regarding "lower quality components" I'm with King Wa. I have not heard of "SMD = low quality" either. The rest of the components seem unchanged and you gain the filter control on the front panel. The NFB-3.1 will be my third DAC. The first was the original head-fi favourite the Zhaolu D2...

Which components are lower quality?

Was posted by "Cya|\| " on the previous page. So we are just looking either for more information about that statement from Cya|\|  himself, or from anyone else. In the meantime I ordered my NFB-3.1 (and RCA interconnects), so you can say that I am not all that anxious :-)   V.

That statement about "lower quality components" is confusing to me too. I am about to purchase the NFB-3.1 and would like some more opinions on this matter. Which components are lower quality, and in what way are they of lower quality? V.

I have the 1543 version plugged into my sound card and then into my Alesis studio monitors and it works well. Very musical and it does not pop, click or otherwise misbehave (unlike my Zhaolu D2 which is incapable of being fed 44.1 kHZ signal from my sound card without sounding like it is...

Actually, if you do some searching, you will find that there were plenty of scientific method type experiments conducted trying to confirm the existence of these observations... If my earlier rant was hard to understand, I do apologise, but I will not be rewriting it for easier comprehension...

Quote: Originally Posted by HumanMedia But then it has just been proved that hot water freezes faster than cold water despite being reported anecdotally for decades (hot water pipes freeze before cold water pipes) but poo-pooed by scientists as it was so illogical - and never tested...

There are cheap toslink ones on eBay. They may work, and in any case as long as the optical switching is good enough not to cause attenuation of brightness to an extent that renders the signal too faint, there should be (by laws of physics) no effect on the sound. I use a simple RCA + video...

Oh, and to further horrify everyone that can hear the difference between coaxial cables, and those who worry about impedance matching of S/PDIF coaxial connections, I run my digital sources through a 4 input 1 output RCA selector box So I have a MOD (movies on demand) box, Digital TV box...

OK, so coaxial connection can cause jitter... and optical suffers from cheap send/receive parts. Well, I can "easily" tell a difference between DACs and OPAs and other somewhat esoteric things. Cables, analogue or digital were always beyond me - even though I still spend time and money on...

Noob-ish question from me. What type of data corruption can a digital cable of either persuasion (electrical or optical) cause? Wouldn't any data corruption or loss be clearly audible - pops, clicks, loss of connection? What degree of data loss is inaudible? cf. Analogue connections they...

Timing and context, HumanMedia. This entire thread unfailry deals with the simple original question. It just happened that there were several other posts on Head-Fi dealing with the similar issue at the same time. As to ridicule, well yes, beliefs and practices devoid of any reason are...

Then try this next: http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Me...Code=NOB_C37_C (thanks for the link MuffinMan, I thought they took this gem down, but no, I just could not find it)