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)

Microphonics of solid state equipment eh? I thought we had this one licked already. http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showt...=192922&page=3 The answer is obviously "the higher up in the air, the better" Cheers, Victor

Quote: Originally Posted by Nospam No, I am not kidding... That's exactly what they say on the website. Since when has reporting the facts equated to advocacy? "Using a conductive glaze on our radio free pin type insulators, we have been able to reduce the high electrical stresses...

Quote: Originally Posted by Nospam Just to keep some perspective on this... The "Audiophile" elevators are only $20 ea, $160 for EIGHT of them. They also differ from the generic ones by the use of a non-conductive glaze (the generic ones purposely use a conductive glaze). Note...

I'd really like to know HOW does it make any difference to solid state equipment. Do the solution providers claim that the solid state digital equipment somehow starts acting as an electricity generator thus producing RFI when it is vibrated by an outside force? How would this power...

Quote: Originally Posted by device manager Nice! I had an OPA2604AP in my upgraded discrete amp as well, but I decided to replace it with the OPA2107AP since TI sent me (5) of them. OPAMP rolling FTW :-) Does that OPA in the upgraded amp actually do anything audible? I have a...

Hehe Device Manager, we now have an identical setup :-) I also run the OPA2107AP and the bypass mod. I have the upgraded headphone amp and I put an OPA2604 in there. Cheers, Victor

Did you consider asking an electrician to install a custom power point in your listening room that is wired with your favourite power cable directly from the distribution board? That would surely have a much more significant effect on your sound than replacing 50 cm of wiring inside of your...

Mindblowing.

USB is a general digital interface. Your source equipment (in your case XBox 360) would need to have a driver for USB audio and the ability to select USB for audio output in order for USB to work as you want it to. Your XBox does not have that ability. Perhaps some of the XBox hackers can...

I have 4 OPA2107 AP for sale in the 'For Sale/Trade Forum' They are now USD 15 each and will be shipped from Australia. Cheers, victor