Still using the good old Aune I bought back in September 2010 :)  Been faultless.

Really looking forward to getting this amp from EA http://www.epiphany-acoustics.co.uk/7.html (British/European supplier?). 

i run mine from my amps output (yamaha a-s700 or a nad c300) or sometimes my Aune DAC/headphone amp - all are significantly better than using headphones right off the onboard!

I use a kettle lead

it's almost definitely home made :) (see the fraying on the 4pin molex lead, has been cannibalised from a PSU).   nice job if so, looks...interesting :)

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i do kinda chuckle when i see all those amps on stilts

i recently sold my Onkyo T9090II, was a very nice tuner indeed, nicest i've heard/used and built very well.  use internet radio now.   that said I still have an old Ultra valve tuner i use when my PC/hifi is down for modification too :D  not worth much at all, but it's pristine and makes me...

i bought many 500gb 7200rpm single platter drives ran in raid1 to use in computers i built, seagate or samsung, forget which; they run very cool, are slimmer than normal and make almost no noise.  that they would be more reliable than 2+ platter 'makes sense', all else being equal.    ...

ah cheers :)

how is a FR test done, with what sound that is...white noise or a pure tone sweep from 1Hz-20KHz  am thinking that the later is almost worthless as music is lots of freqs all at once aye?  wouldn't really tell anything from a single freq with regards to how 'good' a driver is i guess.  ...

Quote: what, like, dedicated measuring equipment?   oh! you meant a fancy hi-fi!    stop embarrassing yourself.

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hope it serves you well, audio gd tempted me but my budget was on the small side 

  Quote: naughty coil.     on a more serious note it's always worth checking your amp for dc offset :D mine had something like 50mv which isn't terrible but now it has about 0.5mv and brand new trimpots, all it took was my cheapo DMM and £5 for 8x bourns 12-turn trimpots from...

i've not yet used a class D/T amp :(   Quote:  

i have an Aune MKIIse, it's just fine and nicely built, likes 15v over 12v tbh, no change at all giving it 18v from what i can tell, no optical in though, annoyingly.  Headphone section, whilst very clear and able enough, can't beat all-round my cheap nad c300 integrated, but then i doubt any of...

might be because it's a digital amp?  i think they explode or something if you try to attach headphones in a conventional manner 'cos of separate grounds :(  nice of them to provide the socket though rather than blather on about 'simplifying' their amp.   Quote:

http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/dit4096.html   http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tas1020b.html "On-chip adaptive clock generator (ACG) supports asynchronous, synchronous and adaptive synchronization modes for isochronous endpoints"   IC3 is possibly some kinda...

also i am guessing one of the ICs can produce it's own clock...hence the need for only one xtal

thanks for the internal shot wood :)

i am confused as to exactly what problem it is they solve

available here in the UK for £90   http://www.audioaffair.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=4917&md=093c86fe37d5ee2aa71d960ef6be6aed   and inside shots would be very nice indeed :)

  finally got round to getting it away from the PCB using teflon sheathed (very) solid copper wires, less than 6 inches including traces from the caps, and changed the trimpots for much better bourns 10k 12 turn ones, so... easy to adjust now! :)   interesting that the temp of the LM317t...

for the no difference between flac and mp3 brigade, i will/can ABX .flac from .mp3 anytime, anyplace, anywhere.  yay mr T!   for mp3, i would use VBR as i'd only use mp3 when space is a concern.  i really doubt i could abx VBR from 320.