Use it on 76 instead, or one of the volumes right before the skip happens (64, 76, 88, 100). Trust me, you will get much less noise this way, and overall cleaner sound.

If you tried the test I described, lowering volume of the source and increasing it on the RU6 and then checking the noise levels you would know right away what I am talking about, because it is very apparent. So either my unit is defective (which I doubt) or no one here really tried to...

Thanks a lot for this very informative answer. I do not want to sound very stubborn but one thing is still unclear. As you quoted "the background noise of the R-2R ladder DAC circuit will increase as you turn up the volume", which makes perfect sense, but the noise I am talking about is not...

First of all, thank you for responding. I am not doing this, of course. It was just to demonstrate issue that is difficult to notice without reducing volume (but is still there at max volume during very very quiet parts of music). I am not experience noise during switching, what I said is that...

Well, did you try what I suggested? lower the source volume almost to 0 and increase it on the DAC, and pay attention to what happens to noise during volume steps. I feel like you are the one disregarding my claims without checking it. If I hear any counter arguments or counter evidence to what...

Multiple things, LG v35 with UAPP, Ibasso DX160, PC, Tablet.. It does not matter, the result is always the same, because as I said, it is not a static I believe it is just imperfection of the DAC.

It is not static, it is a weird noise during the very quiet sounds (but not during the silence). It can only be noticed during very quiet parts of high dynamic range music. But for the demonstration you can reduce the source volume a lot(almost to 0), then increase cayins volume and check the...

That does not explain increased noise only at every tenth/twelveth step at all. If every step was analog at the same stage of the circuit, SNR would not fluctuate like that.

I have a theory about the volume control, please correct me if there is any information which disproves this. The resistor volume control has only 8 steps (probably by having 3 resistors with different combinations) and substeps between them change volume only digitally (at the dac level or...

I have a big issue with Cayin RU6's noise floor. I am not talking about the typical hiss, but rather weird almost glitchy noise during very quite parts of very high dynamic range music. This noise increases every time volume makes that 'glitchy' step(for example from 40 to 41). This means that...

I am a huge radiohead fan but everything after the bends is mastered horribly, they qualify as one of the worst offenders of loudness war. Anyway, you should never have classical and non-classical songs in the same queue, even decently mastered mainstream music will be a lot louder than...

I have both, Ananda and Elegia. They are two very different headphones therefore they complement each other very well. If you want more bass than Elegias then Ananda is not for you. Actually elegia is much punchier than Ananda, with much more defined imaging with clearer and more localized dense...

Thanks a lot. I will definitely give it a try once I get over the honeymoon period with the Tung-Sol tube (it arrives next week). Will the difference be significant between different 12at7 tubes? For example between the tube you recommended and Tung-Sol 12at7.

Hi, new CTH user here. I am planning to roll Tung sol 12AT7 with this adapter. Can anybody tell me if there is a reason for me to be concerned about frying the circuit? I know it is only recommended to roll 6922 but I am not sure how unsafe it is to not follow the recommendation.

Does anyone here have any experience with any third party pads? I remember someone mentioned zmf oval pads, but I am not very sure it will fit. (Of course, I plan to attach the ring of ananda's old pads to the third party pads)

Thank you @MrWalkman, this FW is far beyond my expectations. I have been listening to this FW for a couple of days now and I cant hide my excitement. The sounstage is soo much better now. Before there always was a specific boundary to the sound, i am not talking about the placement of...

I had it, here.. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SUSPkwEPQQRQbcW74kXhFO4vEZiRj1V9 Sony keeps removing the old versions from their website after a while.

The fact is that firmwares affect the sound of DSD playback as well. As far as my limited understanding goes, there are no DSPs for 1-bit (at least real-time). So we have to assume changes have nothing to do with DSPs as we know them.

Yes and no. Quality wise of course the file type matters much more, but different daps have different characteristics (mostly soundstage/imagine) which completely changes listening experience. So I did not mean that I would rather listen to 128mp3 on a good DAP compared to DSD on a lesser DAP, I...

Well, if difference between phone and zx300 is minimal then we clearly care about sound nuances very differently from each other. Almost every device I have heard renders the soundstage very differently (positioning, size of the image, depth illusion) and I really struggle to imagine how would...

It depends by definition of large, in this hobby we really nitpick most of the time. For the "sane" people, difference between my 850$ Anandas and 200$ k702 is very small, but we call this difference huge and we sell our kidneys for these differences. For me the difference between zx300...

Did you compare 2.02 to 2.01? I think this was the only time I notice a "big" difference. Also just out of curiosity, if you ever compared, would you say, that the sound is very different when using zx300 as a standalone dap as opposed to as a USB dac? For me, a source changes sound so much...

Mostly I am running Anandas and Beyerdynamic DT 880 32ohm.

For me the difference in sound between 2.01 and 2.02 is huge. I keep changing between them quite frequently and I can bet my life on it, that the sound is different. Even using as a USB dac and even when playing DSD the changes in sound is still there. BTW I preffer 2.01. I'm sure there are...

Variability seems plausible. Also, I have a theory, when you put your hands close to earcups sound changes dramatically, it becomes much thinner and tinnier, so the same way would our heads being close to it not affect the sound? Therefore the fit on the head, how close our flesh gets to the...