I recently purchased the Ifi Neo Stream, liking the fact that it had I2S output and wanting to connect it to the I2S input on my Gustard X26 Pro Dac. After I ordered it, I realized I'd never checked whether the HDMI pinouts matched. I know there is no standard for this. According to the...

I recently acquired a used Stax 353X amp. It has RCA and XLR inputs and a switch to select between them. I wanted to do a DAC comparison, so I hooked one of my DACs to the RCAs and another DAC to the XLRs figuring I could just flick the switch and get a nice A-B comparison. I quickly noticed...