How did you manage to broke Beyer headphones ? :no_mouth:

Yes. Acoustic engine surround is fixed. Very good in games.

I downgraded to 1.1. SBx is different but broken too. Left and righ surround are stereo. Rear surround are left and right surround. So back to 1.2 and HeSuVi.

Right now I'm using HeSuVi to get SBX working properly.

Thanks MLE for your GC7 review. I think you're the only one to point out broken SBX on this device. I recorded some samples to pinpoint what's going wrong. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-uPvHa8vNgJdEMlaZMP6rbbBTU0NerZH?usp=sharing (As usual, disable all sound processing to ear this...

Hello.   When your amp is off, you ear sound from headphones ? 

I don't have IEM but I guess that ZxR with very sensitive devices like Shure E5 is a mismatch. ZxR is designed toward high impedance, hard to drive headphones. Using DT880/250 with a Z, I don't have background noise at all and plenty of power.

You can ear noise from 124 dB SNR ?

I succed using my SBz under Linux Ubuntu. I have to use a modified kernel.

It works great, enougth power to drive them.

Don't forget to use "fixdigout" -> link

"the sum of the voltages of the 4 wires is constantly zero." V1+V2+V3+V4=0 So GND=(-L-R)/4 But what happens with a 3 wires cable ? GND becomes (-L-R)/3 ?

delete "database.fpl" from foobar directory. use "rescan media library".

Quote: Originally Posted by zancxia I have to turn the volume up nearly all the way to get to my preferred listening zone... is that normal? You have to set it to 100% in the mixer. Use amplifier's volume knob to set the volume.

I don't know for alac but... With dBpoweramp I can convert wav into flac and back to wav, the result is binary the same (fc.exe original.wav converted.wav).

And the other side... global close up on AOP

Here is my Corda Aria (click for bigger pictures): global dac caps crossfed output buffers bias transformer

Quote: Originally Posted by Fitz Or use it to "persuade" more people to buy a Darkvoice. Where can I buy a darkvoice ?

Quote: Originally Posted by muckshot I don't think there have been any new drivers released for the 2496 in ages, but I could be wrong. You are wrong.

Delta WDM 5.10.00.0051 Foobar 0.8.3 here Foo output asio 0.54 here

Quote: Originally Posted by alfie KS doesn't work. "Kernel Streaming" works with AP2496. ASIO is also working great. Use foobar 083.

Quote: Originally Posted by ayso78 This is about the Bithead and Porta Corda specifically. Anyone know what drivers these things use? claudio or something different? Windows,Linux,MacOS ?

Nothing wrong here, Windows(r) set volume to half when you connect a sound device. May be a mod inside the Aria, using volume control on PCM2704 (HID1/MC) can set the volume to full.

Usually ASIO is for low latency. As far as I know, it is bypassing Windows audio mixer, but if 'master' and 'pcm' are set to 100%, the mixer doesn't interfer. You can say you can A/B recognize linux sound from windows sound with aria ?

ASIO works with ASIO4ALL and ASIO4KS but no improvement at all.