Thank you very much @AnimalOnDrums and @Fegefeuer for the detailed answers. I'm convinced to order the V590, now the last question is stepper (Pro) or normal pot? I don't know the technicalities of Reed relays and never owned one, I've understood turning the knob is physically without...

Great suggestion for a "Plan B" so you are not limited with choices and gives you more options in the setup. Manufacturers are to blame to not give us "Plan A" to avoid another pair of cables and another box to fix it.

As already listed at the start of the thread: hearing imbalance (I have it now, not when I was younger, image is slightly shifted even in mono), imbalance of recording or mix (worst in case of recordings converted from mono to stereo, but there even in some newer tracks), R/L drivers imbalance...

Thank you @JTori for the suggestion, but I'd like to update the list on solid states amp only, so to avoid tube rolling, matched pairs, drifts and bias adjust, heat and such. Nothing agains the brave who want to venture tube realm though, I'm just getting older and don't have anymore time and...

Thank you @AnimalOnDrums , I'm esitant to pull the trigger for V590 DAC/Amp combo, before I've still a couple of questions regarding its warm sound signature using headphones like Audeze LCD-3 and the feeling and audibility of its stepped attenuator. Your feeling of warmer sound to both DAC and...

Thank you Benno, I know them do, but this list is about current production units, Violectric with the new DHA V590 and upcoming newer units without DAC discontinued those recently.

With the contribution of headfiers I'd like to make a permanent and updated list of headphone amps with Balance Control. The Balance control is a must have feature for the following reasons: - most of us have a slightly worse hearing in one side (younger the better, just like eyes), image is...

Hi @AnimalOnDrums I'd like to know if you've done some more testing comparison between Phonitor X vs V590 after more time with them, it'll be also extremely interesting to know V590 internal DAC vs external DAC3L. Let us know THKS!

Hello, Fiio M11 user with firmware 1.0.5 here. Fiio Music navigation problem Since I have thousands of albums, especially for Classical, it's necessary to sort music via 'Genre/Artist/Album' instead of the actual 'Genre/Album' which results in a too long album list and impossible to search...

The M11 was my choice for its dual micro SD slots, I need both for my large music collection of high res files. Don't remove Slot 1 in any future firmware update! But we want more: full speed Slot 1. It's still unclear if you needed to lower the speed of Slot 1 just for compatibility with some...

You're welcome bjast. If you share details why you disagree with some of my conclusions we could dig deeper why we have different results with your proposed apps. Album Artwork/Cover Art is another tricky task to implement righ: server software or app used could manage differently the image...

I deny myself...just tested Glider Music Player and it's not up to 8player features and performance. 1) All albums are displayed in just one directory: you can browse by genere but you'll end the same with all albums in one directory, even ordered by artist doesn't change they're all displayed...

This will be the last apps I'll test, I'm a little bored to try any app since as stated countless of times most don't even reach the basic targets we're here for. First KaiserTone and NePlayer are not even listed as DLNA app, so they're useless for this thread target, but since NePlayer lite is...

As stated more than once there's not a free DLNA app which can do a 'good' job with bit-perfect streaming over wi-fi, even spend cash to have a 'good' app is a tricky task. Most are limited in features (i.e. metadata not readed fully to ease browsing means thousands of tracks together in a...

I suggest to try the new TungSol 6SN7GTB as a driver tube, in my EL34 SET amp it sounds equal or even better than a few NOS I've at hand: Sylvania 6SN7GT VT-231 bottom getter green label, two pair of Sylvania 6SN7GTB chrome top yellow label, Philips 6SN7 WGTA JAN green label and a new...

I don't use iPeng anymore, but you could check it easily since FLAC will work with LMS/iPeng. If not for higher than 24/96 you could try to convert those FLAC to ALAC first or use a DLNA/UPnP server on-the-fly conversion to be iOS compatible. Let me know so I can update the guide accordigly...

I've just updated the first post to simplify a few things. Generally the guide needs a bit more update, but it's still useful for the beginners to understand why some DACs or software won't work regardless of settings and to stream DSD to iOS.

So how's the P5 sound now? They're my best portable headphones, but at the beginning I hated them exactly like you, unimpressed at the point I was asking myself how B&W could sell this crap!   Don't mess filling pads the first days, they need to memorize your ear shape, just let them play a...

  Of course it's possible to stream those big DSD files to iPhone/iPad without buffering issues! It can be done in the home network and even on the go using portable battery powered wi-fi server devices (Seagate Wireless Plus or LaCie Fuel for example).   If you can't, there's something...

Thanks for sharing but I'm not able to follow your istructions using telnet included in Windows 7.   First I was able to connect only using "open" command, since "telnet" command is not recognized. Second, I was able just once to "open 172.25.0.1", but then the command line ln -s...

HiGrahamL, Thanks for sharing. Could you give us detailed istructions on how to directly extract DoP ALAC from DSF without converting them first to DoP FLAC in foobar? Let us know. Thank you

Thanks for the tip, but I've tried that and still crashes, I still have to convert twice for now.

Thanks for the tip, but JRiver has same behavior as before: or it crashes ot I get DoP ALAC at 352,8Khz 24bit (no options are configurable under DSP settings after DSD1x is selected).   Where is located and which device or software has the "Advance" > "Rescan Interval" you're referring to?

Thank you very much for the translation, I'll try it on the Seagate Wireless Plus 2TB in the following days and let you know. BTW, after I've loaded into it nearly 1,5 TB of music it is very slow to scan all files (1 hour to be ready) and it do it everytime you restart it, not practical at all...

That translation from japanese!... PLEASE 8)   I doubt 8player streams 24bit FLACs or DoP FLACs bit-perfectly, in my experience with different DACs it plays those but I guess downconverted to 16bit at 44 or 48khz dunno for sure since it seems 8player doesn't recognize the FLAC frequency: it...