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REVIEW - Yulong Audio Sabre DA8 Reference DAC
With the original DA8 usb source quality mattered a lot. A dedicated linux server in a Rasbery Pi gave it a 20% of overall boost. No getting rid of the attributes dead in dynamics, grainy and glarey, though. I understand your complaints. DA8 was 'dead' sounding to me too. But a surprisingly...- Priidik
- Post #1,587
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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REVIEW - Yulong Audio Sabre DA8 Reference DAC
One source says it uses AK4832 dac chip (s). BB op-amps. Looks decent, and potentially very good psu side.- Priidik
- Post #1,561
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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REVIEW - Yulong Audio Sabre DA8 Reference DAC
Which Burr Brown dac is it? In my experience these numbers are mostly good for bragging rights. The crosstalk is not the only parameter to alter soundstage. DA8 was the best dac in my possession at quoted specs, but one of the worst sounding in 500€+ range.- Priidik
- Post #1,559
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
You are in for a surprise if you get to hear some from proper R2R dac. My assessment has been that badly recorded orchestral can sound dull and lacking 'plankton' or sub-content as easily as crappy EDM. Computer synthesized stuff has the advantage of not having to go through any...- Priidik
- Post #4,342
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No balanced! WHY?!!
I have done the same thing. While i can't say for sure if it makes anything sound better, but at least my precious stuff is away from common household garbage. My computer case has 112V 50Hz (of 230), luckily only 1mA on it for some reason, so i get a reminder if i touch my dac and Apple...- Priidik
- Post #79
- Forum: Introductions, Help and Recommendations
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
Even two very similar sabre dacs are many magnitudes more different than differences between interconnects that i have tried. I can hear a minor difference between silver coated and regular cat5e as headphone cable. Cat5e is better. Very, very slightly less harsh. I couldn't find any...- Priidik
- Post #3,980
- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
Thousand times suggested everywhere: Schiit Valhalla 2 or BH Crack. Vintage quality integrated amplifiers are pretty decent for this kind of money.- Priidik
- Post #18,058
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
Only one should light up. It seems you might have some household appliance shorting to null a bit and/or poor conduction from null to main powerlines. (how's your electricity bill?) A neighbour next door of me had water boiler that shorted to ground, and had ground connected to null.. i had 80V...- Priidik
- Post #3,905
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
Love 'em with metal and etc. Only headphone i have heard that does leading edges and transients right. With appropriate chain. HD800 actually suck badly with some gear with metal and super fast rock generes. I sheldom listen jazz, but i can easily trick myself thinking i am listening the...- Priidik
- Post #17,987
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
Well then, more reason to try linux based system. Most of them hold cpu multiplyer constant, that sort of things. + on the soft side there is nothing but the music daemon. Out of dacs i have used with for example Daphile the ones with crappy usb side benefited most.- Priidik
- Post #3,825
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
Isn't it more to do with hardware? The optimisation is meant to hold the hardware in check. DC-DC converters see less switching action with steady cpu voltage. There are other hardware that is switched as well, if cpu clock changes, no? I am not computer tech, maybe someone can enlighten me...- Priidik
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
To each their own. I would have simply saved $$ if somone could have told me sooner that i need an exeptional amp and equally exeptional dac to get most out of HD800. I quess the trip is worth something too. Understandably people seek different strengths of this phone, so for some maybe an...- Priidik
- Post #17,929
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
I never tried to tweak windows for this purpose, as it feels wrong to me, but i have tried others. At first i was sceptical too, but linux daemon based os-es with locked cpu parameters and other optimizations do sound better. Blacker background and more depth to the sound. This is no...- Priidik
- Post #3,811
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
Hm, maybe he isn't trolling after all. Apart from the bold font... The guy who disliked HD800 and prefered HD202 to em also complained about the idle hiss coming out of my studio monitors (10dB). Apparently a ppm of population is sensitive to such things.- Priidik
- Post #17,873
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
Have you considered trying out HD202? An acquaintance of mine prefered HD202 to HD800. Seriously.- Priidik
- Post #17,871
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
If you try HD800 and you like it, there is no going back to HD600. The HD800 (unmodded) is superior in everything short of tonality. Not all music lover agree with HD800, so it is better to try them out before commiting to purchase. The Soundblaster has Class-D amplifier. While not...- Priidik
- Post #17,869
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
The Leben CS300XS to my ears removed all nastiness in treble of HD800, but in comparison to some other amplifiers it was clear to me it makes everything too romantic for my tastes. I thought its technical weak spot was bass performance. It couldn't resolve complex orchestral passages in lower...- Priidik
- Post #17,819
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Battle of the Amps: One dude's quest for audio Nirvanna with HD 800s
Nice write up Smitty. Did the Ukrainian toobs make a noticeable difference? By lacking in bass do you mean that Rag has more quantitively as well, or is just tighter, tauter? I have found that some amplifiers have this fluffy soft thing and lacking weight in bass presentation despite...- Priidik
- Post #6
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)
Multibit PCM dacs can be done under 500$, the time is just yet to come because majority is happy with S-D. Diy guys have done it with discrete means, now picture a whole modern chip dedicated to audio.- Priidik
- Post #3,558
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
Not fragile. A studio monitor (15kg/33lbs) fell off from its stand straight to my HD800 on table. Zero dmg. Perhaps another paint chip richer tho- Priidik
- Post #17,729
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
It has 4 and it works i have such termination to 4-pin xlr.- Priidik
- Post #17,725
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
In my experience a suitable mid range amplifier and dac are enough to enjoy HD800 with 95% of music. High feedback based opamp (or even discrete) circuits are the enemy of HD800, these make HD800 sound dead, distant and sibilant. I recently compared a 'decent on paper' (measures 10x better...- Priidik
- Post #17,693
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
Through pretty much any chain i had to use (tubes, ss, different dacs) HD800 slays T1 in technicalities across the board, and not just slightly. Only thing i can see making T1 appeal more is its treble peak that is located in higher fr than HD800's, but it is much more in db than HD800's 6k...- Priidik
- Post #17,682
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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New Schiit! Ragnarok and Yggdrasil
To my understanding speaker outs are the same as bal hp outs.- Priidik
- Post #5,171
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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The (new) HD800 Impressions Thread
I agree on all fronts exept comparing to K701 the T1 is league above. Imo in some ways the T1 sounds like much improved K701.- Priidik
- Post #17,658
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum