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Need help with DAC and how to set it up for my sytem
Hi there, I could really need some help to improve/finish my audio system. Most of the music/movies comes from my notebook (here is my review + information of my system...- zakazak
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- creative-sound-blaster-x-fi-hd-usb-audio-system-with-thx-sb1240 dacs fiio-e17
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- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps
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Do the DACport and the DACport LX really sound different?
I own and enjoy the DACport but recently bought phones with a dedicated amp (Stax), so am thinking about getting an LX, seing as it's purported to sound better. But when I spoke to David at Centrance, he mentioned that the LX is basically a Dacport with the potentiometer gone and the volume...- mink70
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- jds-labs-odac jds-labs-assembled-objective2-headphone-amplifier centrance-dacport-usb-headphone-amp dedicated-source-components dacs centrance-dacmini-cx leckerton-audio-uha-6s-portable-amp-dac centrance-dacport-lx-ultra-low-noise-portable-usb-dac
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Denon gear and Headphone happiness
OK... I generally do enjoy my HD650's with my Cambridge DMPlus sourced from ripped AIFF lossless files at 1411 from my MacMini with Amarra 2.4 as the front end on top of iTunes. Great stuff and many happy hours of listening. Tonight though my son wanted to borrow a couple of CD's for his...- longbowbbs
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- cambridge-audio-azur-dacmagic-plus dedicated-source-components dacs
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DAC for my M-Audio BX8 D2 and Grado PS500
So i've been reading up and searching the web for a few days now and I must admit, things do look kinda confusing. I'd really appreciate it if you would share your thoughts/opinions/suggestions. I'm looking at DACs below 1000, and have narrowed them down to these: Audio GD's...- JoelS87
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- maverick-audio-tubemagic-d2-dac lavry-da11 benchmark-dac-1-pre-preamplifier-dac-headphone-amp musical-fidelity-v-dac-ii-upsampling-digital-to-analog-converter-with-asynchronous-usb-input grado-professional-series-ps500-headphones cambridge-audio-azur-dacmagic-plus m-audio-bx8-d2 dedicated-source-components dacs musical-fidelity-m1 phiaton-ps-500
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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HDMI Audio Decoder - Please help!
Hi there! After so much fiddling with audio, its slowly getting better but the trial and error takes so much time!! Really need to find a solution thats not going to be a shot in the dark and waste more money. I want to run HDMI from my PS3 to my LCD Monitor. BUT, output from the...- Blaze182
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- akg-k1000 astro-mixamp dedicated-source-components dacs fiio-e17
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Dac32, ECD-1 or DA11? for rpx35 and k701
Hello, Head-Fi community, as a newb I was hoping if someone can solve my problem here. The rig I'm using now is PC usb output --> Benchmark Dac1 USB --> Rudistor rpx35 --> K701 The problem I have is that although having a detailed, bright and transparent sound I like, the sound is...- raptorn60
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- lavry-da11 north-star-dac32 dedicated-source-components akg-k701-studio-headphones dacs electrocompaniet-ecd-1-dac
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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Recommendations for a specific purpose
Let me keep this simple and sweet. I have a LED monitor with no speakers, a PS3 with hdmi and optical out and no way to get sound from the ps to my ears. What can I do? I dont really want to buy more amps and/or dacs but im not really sure if that is an option. Something like the...- johnman1116
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- audioengine-d1-premium-24-bit-dac dedicated-source-components dacs centrance-dacmini
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First Impression Onkyo NDS 1000 Japan Version as Digital Media Trasport for I Family
Hallo Head Fiers Friends This evening my IDock Onkyo NDS 1000 Japan Version is coming . This is alternate for use my I family like IPOD and IPOD Video , Iphone and IPAD as source Digital Transporter Source : Onkyo NDS 1000 DAC Amp : Eximus Dp 1 Cable : Coax : Home...- rudi0504
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- onkyo-nds-1000 dedicated-source-components dacs
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Audio-gd Ref 7.1 or Bryston BDA-1
How does these two DACs compare to each other. The insides of each are very different. Does less = more, or does more = better?- preproman
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- bryston-bha-1-balanced-headphone-amplifier dedicated-source-components reference-seven dacs bryston-bda-1
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WORKING: Audio-gd Async USB to Squeezebox Touch (up to 192k / 24b). TEAC UD-H01 and other TE8802L - based DACs may work, too.
Hi there fellows. Good news for audio-gd DAC or DI - users with a Squeezebox Touch! They can now be connected over Asynchronous USB. It might work for other TE8802L - Based DACs, too. In particular for instance, TEAC UD-H01. Here is a list of some of them...- ursdiego
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- logitech-squeezebox-touch dedicated-source-components teac-udh01-b-d-a-converter-with-usb-audio-interface dacs audio-gd-digital-interface
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Warm, musical vs cold, analytical DACs
From my time on the forums on head-fi, I keep hearing DACs being referred to as either sounding cold and analytical, giving good detail in the music; or warmer and more musical sounding. It seems as for DACs under the $500, often you have to choose one at the expense of the other (atleast...- mac336
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- jds-labs-odac musical-fidelity-v-dac-upsampling-digital-to-analog-audio-converter dedicated-source-components burson-ha-160 dacs reference-seven schiit-audio-bifrost-dac
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Buyer Beware
BUYER BEWARE I read the great reviews of Ross Martin's DACs online and decided to buy from him. I loved the idea of buying a quality, handmade product from someone. I was so excited I had even asked him if he would autograph the top of my unit when I sent him the PayPal payment of $293.45...- etcetera
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- martin-custom-audio dacs
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components