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The reason why we don’t want the blobs....is exactly that it can come lose anytime and cause short circuit easily
guys,
I'm seeing you're are all very excited about custom modification but I don't understand if there is something I'm able to do or not. Should be nice to resume everything in a specific thread!
I'm thinking about AMP8 balanced with 4.4 output. Now I have dx200 standards (anybody want to sell its Titanium?!) with amp3. I'm very happy with dx200, amp3 and Xelento (high quality balanced custom cable) and dx200 into external Amplifier Pathos aurium using AMP3 line out.
I'm wondering if I would have some benefit If I use the combinations quoted above but using AMP8 (with adapter FiiO BL44 4.4 to 2.5 so I can use all my custom cables).
Thank you
Double check it did have a solder blob on the second smt cap but it can straight off when I touch it. It did have a Ibasso sticker and AMP1 MOD laser on it. If somebody not Ibasso did it than they spent a lot of effort on it.
Now that deffo looks legit, would be good to compare it soundwise to the AMP1ti clone I did.
p s. Glad you removed that blob, it would have come loose at some point and caused havoc.
I was worried it was done by a modder but the seller provide a image of a receipt and told me it was limited on 11/11 sale with the DX200
Yeah didn’t know it was there the blob was so small thanks for letting me know.
Lexar
No worries, the AMP1 Mod looks to use the same caps/values as one of ibasso's trial AMP7s configurations (bottom centre)
Same here, and I agreed. I would take Samsung all day long, superior brand and performances even with SATA or NVMEI have had problems with Lexar in the past. Samsung is tops in performance and tops in the price paid.
If it sounds louder then you are doing something wrong (or your software). DSD upscaling done right sound definietly better than original files.Well, I tried upsampling one 44.1/16-bit album to DSD 512 with XiSRC on my laptop, and I have to say, it sounded pretty awful. It came out significantly louder than the original source file with a higher noise floor and distortion. I used the default settings, though I did use the ISP Reduction option. Actually, as I recall, the ISP Reduction was the only user selectable option other than the default settings. I'm not sure if that's what made it sound icky. The conversion also took forever, so I was doing other stuff on the computer to kill time. I suppose that could have affected the result. Sometimes when I'm exporting audio projects from my DAW, or doing sample rate conversions on my desktop PC, the resulting file sometimes gets a little "glitchy" with artifacts being introduced if I'm doing other things on the computer at the same time.
I'll try again with changes in the possible variables: a different source file, no ISP Reduction, and not working on the computer while the files are processing to see if this makes any difference.