[Dobrescu George]

Hi Vartan

For sample rates higher than 192kHz it is recommended to use at least the Reliable streaming mode setting.

Low latency may reduce the number of Buffers allocated for ASIO sufficiently that any father sample rates than 96kHz will have dropouts, of course this is ultimately hardware dependent.

Equally the software buffers should be set to at least 8192 with Streaming at reliable, for sample rates above 192kHz, the Auto setting of the V3.2 Driver will also be ok.

Further, for J-River, especially if playing higher sample rates, the minimum settings that should be applied are the recommended 50mS buffer with "Use Large Hardware Buffers" enabled.

Lower buffer settings may work, depending on the hardware, but if they don't, well, don't use them. Contrary, some hardware may need larger buffer settings than even those recommended.

Contrary to urban audio myth, reducing buffers and/or latency does not improve sound quality, it merely increases the risk of dropouts, often on the contrary larger buffer sizes tend to provide better sound quality.

Excessive buffer length however may cause lip-sync issues, though many modern TV's have so much build in delay on the picture due to processing, that audio often needs extra delay to be in sync.

I hope that this answers your queries.

Best wishes

iFi audio Team
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I wanted to add this, from my multiple experiments, it seems that having the buffers set pretty high provides the absolute best audio quality and experience, except for the case where you do need lip sync, but after over 30 tests, I never went out of lip sync , even with the largest buffers on my laptop, using madVR + MPC-HC.

No idea if a TV would go out of sync though.

Cannot compose or master music or do anything that needs quick things if the buffers are high though, but that won't be the case for most people, I think that most consumers are safe with large(r) buffers and reliable settings, it is for their own good.

 

[elNan]

Is it safe to charge the iDSD BL through a Quick Charge 3.0 wall charger?

 

[Dobrescu George]

Is it safe to charge the iDSD BL through a Quick Charge 3.0 wall charger?

I think* that it will just pull normal charging, even if the charger is Quick charge.

 

[cardeli22]

I think* that it will just pull normal charging, even if the charger is Quick charge.

Yep, the internal circuitry should pull only what it needs.

 

[Jaworrr]

Hi guys, does anyone of you paired BL with Fostex TH-610?
I got my BL few days ago, now it`s under burn-in process (about 60hours for now), for me this pair is quite unpleasant in highs in the meanning of quantity. They are little bit too spicy, what`s yours experience?
For example th-610 with Opus#1 sounds pleasant in this area.

 

[jmills8]

Butn in ? Thing sounded perfect out of the box.

 

[Jaworrr]

I've heard samowere here about 300hours burn in I see @jmills8 you have Th900, is it good choice for BL?

Anyone else experiente with Fostex and BL? It is possible that i am the problem in this set

 

[Dobrescu George]

I don't think BL suffers any burn-in, and that spicy trreble is one of the things I love the most about it! Most people who tried it (I let some of my friends play with it, even convinced five of them to get one), everyone loved that treble and that energetic top end!

 

[jmills8]

I've heard samowere here about 300hours burn in I see @jmills8 you have Th900, is it good choice for BL?

Anyone else experiente with Fostex and BL? It is possible that i am the problem in this set

Perfect with the th900.

 

[Jaworrr]

Ok, thanks for feed back. I have to try listen for next few day on lower sound level maybe...

my set is BL+Xiaomi redmi note 4x.

 

[superuser1]

What is the technical reason for volume being always higher when input is from USB versus coax? @iFi audio

 

[cardeli22]

What is the technical reason for volume being always higher when input is from USB versus coax? @iFi audio

I am wondering the same thing

 

[superuser1]

I am wondering the same thing

Since the BL won't play nice with my desktop PC via USB, i am feeding it via coax through the iOne and i notice a significantly lower volume while feeding the BL via coax vs. USB input be it from a mobile device or a PC.

 

[cardeli22]

Since the BL won't play nice with my desktop PC via USB, i am feeding it via coax through the iOne and i notice a significantly lower volume while feeding the BL via coax vs. USB input be it from a mobile device or a PC.

My computer has optical output and when going back and forth between the usb connection or the optical connection, the usb connection always seems louder to me.

 

[iFi audio]

Girls and guys, just a short announcement:

We will be at RMAF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



On our several stations we'll have lots of currently available iFi audio stuff with us, namely Pro iESL and Pro iCAN, iCAN SE, iTube2, iDAC2 micro iDSD BL and a bunch our accessories too!

But there we will also show nano iDSD Black Label !!!

Be sure to visit us at the atrium - CanJam 24!