All correct. The meaning of autospawn has changed from spawn on boot to spawn on boot OR as required by applications which is obviously the better long term solution. Alsa has also obviously come a long way even listing USB devices by USB manufacturer then number so referencing a USB card in...

You are correct noknok23, changing the volume digitally does defeat the purpose of bit perfect audio as it by definition has to do modifications to the stream to adjust the volume and calculate the new bits. HOWEVER the difference may very well be inaudible right down to less than half volume...

Not by much, it could just be me thinking about it but im guessing the 2 port holes in the casing are the culprit. Comfort is a massive question mark at this stage. They have this weird hook shape to the body that feels somewhat sharp at first. Within seconds my brain seems to forget about it...

Cant speak for anyone else but i paid for faster shipping to Australia and it seems to have taken about 2-3 days from dispatch. I thought i was sent the wrong cable as getting the cable into the iems took way more force than my previous KZ's, so be careful when you get yours! So far i haven't...

ZSR in hand. Now to the testing!

That's pretty standard for putting phones that came before fast charging on fast charging ports. Older phones don't usually support more than 1 amp from a charger without overheating/ not charging/ causing issues like touchscreens playing up while plugged in. A lot of people in the android...

Way back when I bothered with tidal you could get lossless streams in the Kodi plugin with the tick of a box. Things however do change. Don't forget that chrome does its own resampling and mixing in its own engine before sending to the os layer. That said, chrome will happily output to alsa in...

Kodi/ anything that can stream tidal will do lossless bitperfect when pulse is disabled.

Pulses default resampling and mixing settings are rubbish. Especially way back on14.04.

Huge buffer sizes usually just delay playback while the buffer fills. Many devices use a buffer option that allows playback during filling to negate this. Buffers sizes over a whole lossless song are IMO pointless. Turning off swap and mounting root as read only can save SD cards from damage...

MQA's biggest problem is the "extra information" in the files would be unpacked by free audio players in no time, that's why they want the money up front. "But what about the profiling for individual DACs" you say. If your DAC is so innacurate it needs profiles to sound right you need a new...

Do we know what DAC the dot uses? All i can find is a unknown Texas Instruments chip. The CCA has a AK4430 which is known as a great chip solution. At least on paper the CCA is way better at audio, it has a decent DAC after all.

http://www.swamp.net.au Just wanted to share my love for this local company and their products. I use their interconnects everywhere I can including some custom made cables for types they didn't stock but I wanted (dual rca splitters for use in my vehicles sound system ). Everything is exactly...

There is a definite point of diminishing returns, and I feel it's about the $3 per meter mark (AUD). I have some cables of various types from eBay with 99cents and free postage that sound noticeably worse than any of my other cables splitters and joiners to the point my girlfriend could blind...

A5+'s are fantastic multimedia speakers aka nothing sounds bad on them, even tv sounds really good. They aren't the most resolving things in the world but they can still make your couch shake during movies without a sub which is always a plus. And of course all genres of music sound good, even...