[OCC7N]

Does that sound like the best approach or given the quality of my streamer is AES direct into the DAC best and the DI-20 being unnecessary, in my specific set of circumstances?

is your spdif input transformer coupled?

 

[gimmeheadroom]

is your spdif input transformer coupled?

Isn't that too personal?

 

[FredA]

Damn, I've just realised that the DI-20 has a Spdif IN, so I can run my Aqua LinQ into it via my Oyaide FTVS-510 and output it via I2S!

Does that sound like the best approach or given the quality of my streamer is AES direct into the DAC best and the DI-20 being unnecessary, in my specific set of circumstances?

Depends on how good your streamer but normally the di20 will improve sound. It is much about noise. The di20 should output a cleaner signal than your streamer.

 

[OCC7N]

is your spdif input transformer coupled?

I would use the acss port if it was not transformer coupled.

It supports 384khz

 

[FredA]

AES is always preferable to S/PDIF. I think it's worth trying that and after some months you could consider adding a DI-20/HE if you want to try IIS into the DAC.

DI-20HE is helpful if you want to run multiple inputs (coaxial S/PDIF, USB) or have noisy USB, but I think @FredA pointed out the USB on the new DACs is already isolated.

Usb isolation is not perfect. I agree that just the dac through aes/ebu should work very well. I would use some sort of ac isolator on the streamer. Having a transformer coupled aes out would be good of course to avoid a ground loop. The r7 has such a transfo on its aes input so you are covered and i guess the other dacs do to, to verify.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Usb isolation is not perfect. I agree that just the dac through aes/ebu should work very well. I would use some sort of ac isolator on the streamer. Having a transformer coupled aes out would be good of course to avoid a ground loop. The r7 has such a transfo on its aes input so you are covered and i guess the other dacs do to, to verify.

I think if the DAC output is AES/EBU as opposed to plain AES, that means it should be transformer-isolated. I'm not sure how careful the companies are with naming though.

 

[FredA]

I think if the DAC output is AES/EBU as opposed to plain AES, that means it should be transformer-isolated. I'm not sure how careful the companies are with naming though.

Yeah, it is aes/ebu in case of audio-gd. I was using aes as a short to save key strikes.

 

[Jandu]

Damn, I've just realised that the DI-20 has a Spdif IN, so I can run my Aqua LinQ into it via my Oyaide FTVS-510 and output it via I2S!

Does that sound like the best approach or given the quality of my streamer is AES direct into the DAC best and the DI-20 being unnecessary, in my specific set of circumstances?

If you are concern about the sound quality differences between versions of R7, you may need the DI20He to feed the DAC, unless your power supply is quite good. Else, you can try it out using AES directly into the R7. To improve further from just R7, you have the following options:

add:
DI20He
10MHz clock

 

[OCC7N]

Susvara is soo unreal on my AGD. I can feel the dark/black background, its getting scary.

Anybody that has di20 dac and headamp from AGD that can confirm the same with Susvara?

 

[jimmychan]

Yes, I have the same nice combo of AGD DI20HE, DAC, Amp & Susvara.

 

[Psilonaught]

So I've just set up a R7HE 2020 edition and I am a bit overwhelmed with the various settings.

What is considered the best settings for a 2020 unit ?

Does anyone use the SAA7220 +TDA1541A filter?

I'm also pleasantly surprised that I can get DSD64 through AES.

 

[FredA]

So I've just set up a R7HE 2020 edition and I am a bit overwhelmed with the various settings.

What is considered the best settings for a 2020 unit ?

Does anyone use the SAA7220 +TDA1541A filter?

I'm also pleasantly surprised that I can get DSD64 through AES.

Try Os8 and NOS.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Try Os8 and NOS.

Agreed, keep it simple. Turn off phono simulation, etc. Really, there are not many settings.

 

[Psilonaught]

Try Os8 and NOS.

So to achieve that my settings read 1 (aes), R, N, 3?

Or should it read 1, R, 0, 8?

The manual is very poor!

 

[gimmeheadroom]

So to achieve that my settings read 1 (aes), R, N, 3?

Or should it read 1, R, 0, 8?

The manual is very poor!

@FredA meant try those two separate settings, not at the same time.

One hint if the English manual is unreadable (it pretty much is) is to use Chrome and look at the Chinese version. It's often better than the English pages even with the machine translation.

English http://audio-gd.com/HE/R7HE20/R7HE20EN_Use.htm