Hi Jason, very nice dac you have there with the Loki.  I take on board your explanation of the 'pop' being a combination of system dependence and a DSD issue. . To add some context here, the pop is barley audible on my setup, and only occurs infrequently, it doesn't bother me at all so if I had...

I have been breaking this dac in for 4 days now.     As it stands it is not a finished product, there is a pop when you first send a music stream to it (come on guys get your schiit together). As fankty says, needs a firmware upgrade. However this does not get in the way of making an...

Looks like the prices for the Metrum Hex have gone up!   http://www.nosminidac.nl/price_list.html   Anybody willing to take the plunge?

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Help Please     After changing the four 0.1uf chip caps on this dac my friend tell me he only gets lots of hiss and tiny music signal. He changed the chips for new ones thinking that he might have damaged the TDA1543 chips, but it made no difference.   Also he found that changing the...

My findings are the same as yours Justin, except compared with the musiland usd1, (I don't have a hiface to compare).   The v-link for me sounds naturally balanced, and very clear but without sounding hyped with exaggerated treble.   Matter of taste me thinks?

Yes I believe the issue is implementation, to a degree. A poorly implemented Async device would get trashed by a well implemented Iso. But because an  Async can recover more data, a well implemented Async device should always have the edge on a well implemented Iso device

Mike, I suspect it is not true async because there is no mention of software drivers.  Perhaps an owner could jump in here to clarify?

Funny you should say that Lee, as I don't have my Chameleon NOS dac with me I have been using a Cambridge Dac Magic 2   Out of curiosity I got a cheap  tda1543 one chip NOS dac from ebay about a week ago.  With a couple of Blackgate caps in critical positions it jumps up and down on and...

Hi Mike, the thing to consider with the Audio-Gd device is that it is not async , though whether that makes a jot of difference with real listening I don't know.

Thanks Justin, no change though without the battery.

Yes it does improve with burning in. To be fair I thought it sounded pretty good straight out of the box and was pleasantly surprised that it continues to improve.   But... with coax plugged in I can hear very low level whirring noise from my disc drives, The coax has to be completely...

  I wouldn't get too hung up on the component costs, my musiland usd async device from china cost about the same as the v-link. Its the software we are paying for with these devices, so a 20 dollar clone without the contents of that eprom would simply not work.  On the musiland forum software...

For the record, I find I am gravitating towards the coax output, through my ESL63 speakers it sounds more open than the opt out. I am not hearing anything that might be attributed to noise from the laptop. I am not tempted to stick a TX in the box just yet, that FB1, that looks like a ferrite...

Sorry I don't have any facility for 5.1 here.   Listening to the v-dac some more now, strikes me more and more just how analogue it sounds. The dacmagic 2 always sounded typically digital, a touch strident and harsh in the highs, but with the v-link transport it sounds richer and smoother...

AC3/DTS bypass?    

Nothing on the back,   At the moment can only compare to a sony cdp-xe330, optical out. But the v-link sounds closer to my Rega Planar 3 than the musiland usd which was to bright and synthetic for my taste.    The v-link is richer in the lower mids without being congested. More analogue...

Just listening to the V-link now.   Running it through an old dacmagic II it sounds very good. The improvements are, more balance, clean deeper bass, improved soundstage positioning. Also much smoother but very clear.   Can only see one clock though.    

Check your schematic for your TX. I attached mine so the positive and ground input pins are soldered directly to the spidf ground and center positive, and then moved the wires from the circuit board that are currently soldered to the spidf positive center and ground to the center and ground...

Let us know how your Halide Bridge benefits it too.   And have nice holiday

Spanket, good to see your getting quality on par with your xonar dx.   Using mine at the moment on my trip abroad, better than my laptop sound card. Very enjoyable actually.   Experiment with film caps for output, you might get even more out of it.

The LED flashes briefly when first plugged in then goes of. I added the 22n/16r between the input on the coupling caps and the common ground pin on the output, and a couple of 120 ohm resistors between the output caps and the positive and negative line out to headphones to attenuate the signal...

Oh thats great news!!

I think there is a problem with a dodgy RCA connector. Also make sure the TDA1543 pins dont bend when you put them in the sockets.

Hi Neil, I just did your mod with the 22n/16r..... WOW!   I thought it was a good little dac for the price, but after that mod, it really lowered the noise floor and injected a lot of life. I'm just laughing when I listen and remind myself how much it cost.   I think I might grab a...