[n_maher]

I changed the pictures to links, the OP is free to rehost/resize them and edit his own post again if he so chooses.

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

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Originally Posted by n_maher /img/forum/go_quote.gif I changed the pictures to links, the OP is free to rehost/resize them and edit his own post again if he so chooses.

Thank you very much!

 

[estreeter]

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Originally Posted by rawrster /img/forum/go_quote.gif well good thing this isnt camera-fi then

It ISNT ? Jeebus - approaching a couple of thousand posts and NOW you tell me ! Explains a hell of a lot, tho ....

That is the last time I follow the first link Google throws back at me. (Who knew 'Old Trannies' wasnt a website for folk who missed the transistor radios of their youth ??)

 

[jasonl]

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Originally Posted by sohels /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks. Good to see firms looking beyond mainland China.

We go where the smaller production base is, there is really not much choice for any vendor who has to compete aggressively. These days, it is hard to tell where the product is made, even the label can be misleading. In some cases, nearly the entire product was manufactured in China, then it gets shipped to a high labor country (Europe, USA whatever) for "final assembly and test". It is then turn around as "Made in Your-favorite-Country".

If you walk in to one of these major OEM factory (most of them own by the Taiwanese), you will see just about every major brands (ya, all of them).
The largest of them is Foxconn (see Wiki info here Foxconn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for electronics. The place where all your iPod, Apple, Dell, HP are made is huge, imagine a factory (well, more like a town) that can house 100,000 people

. There are other huge OEM for speaker drivers, speaker enclosures, etc.

 

[Armaegis]

The most important question though, is who are the girls modeling all your gear?

 

[blackzarg]

If anyone's interested, I posted pics of my uDAC here:
http://forums.av123.com/showthread.p...659#post751659

This thing is puny! I finally figured out that uDAC meant micro-DAC, not You-DAC.

 

[Bill St. Clair]

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Originally Posted by blackzarg /img/forum/go_quote.gif This thing is puny! I finally figured out that uDAC meant micro-DAC, not You-DAC.

It's got a clear micro on the packaging, but the NuForce website uses a "u". Most of our computers can deal with the micro character these days. On my Mac, it's typed with option-m:

[size=x-large]µDAC[/size]

 

[Bblitz]

Just got mine minutes ago. My RE0's really come to life with the uDac

 

[blackzarg]

Does the blue LED ever go off? Or will it always be on when it's plugged into a USB port?

 

[Bill St. Clair]

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Originally Posted by blackzarg /img/forum/go_quote.gif Does the blue LED ever go off? Or will it always be on when it's plugged into a USB port?

It's always on when the µDAC has power.

 

[HeadphoneAddict]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackzarg /img/forum/go_quote.gif If anyone's interested, I posted pics of my uDAC here: http://forums.av123.com/showthread.p...659#post751659 This thing is puny! I finally figured out that uDAC meant micro-DAC, not You-DAC.

Just like the AMB y1 DAC is = Gamma 1 DAC

 

[bearmann]

@jasonl:
You wrote that the µDAC utilizes the ESS9022 because for you this was the best sounding option in your price range. Can we assume that your new Icon HDP will utilize an ESS Sabre DAC, too?

(Sorry if this got covered in another thread, couldn't find anything about the Icon HDP though.)

best regards.
bearmann

 

[axima]

Hello

I just received this DAC and I would like to know which option will result in the best sound quality.

What is the difference between Analog Stereo Output and Digital Stereo Duplex?

 

[ulyses]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bearmann /img/forum/go_quote.gif @jasonl: You wrote that the µDAC utilizes the ESS9022 because for you this was the best sounding option in your price range. Can we assume that your new Icon HDP will utilize an ESS Sabre DAC, too? (Sorry if this got covered in another thread, couldn't find anything about the Icon HDP though.) best regards. bearmann

+1


'For $399, you get:
1) The best headphone amp in the world.
2) The best 24bit/96Khz USB DAC
3) Very good S/PDIF DAC
4) Very good preamp

Icon HDP is high-end performance at mass market pricing.'

I really interested this thing. Even half performance at pointing these words with 400 price range would be a real giant killer.

 

[Lil' Knight]

Quote:

The best 24bit/96Khz USB DAC

Does this mean the HDP can do 24/96 via USB?