escalibur
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@raoultrifan can you add Fun to the comparsion as well?
Do you have any explanation why would the Play be much more sensible to the op-amps rolling than the Playmate? Also have you tried to test it with the speakers? In my experience, listening through big speakers, gives much more soundstage and instruments separation differences, than listening through the headphones only.when I swapped opamps in PLAY differences were quite there, but in PLAYMATE I can't hear anything (at least not in 30 minutes of A/B testing).
Do you have any explanation why would the Play be much more sensible to the op-amps rolling than the Playmate? Also have you tried to test it with the speakers? In my experience, listening through big speakers, gives much more soundstage and instruments separation differences, than listening through the headphones only.
imran can you share the new revision pcb pic hereThe PCB 2.3 has noticeably lower noise floor, darker background, cleaner transients and sounds a little faster perhaps due to cleaner power.
I use OPA209 in my gain stage, I also added the AudioNote Kaisei 220uF/100V Non-Polar caps on OPA209 rails. I believe PSU bypass on the gain stage will support the output stage too (though not as well as it would if I added it replacing an output stage PSU cap)
After side by side listening, my Play sounds better than Play 1.6 with SS2590.
Play 2.3 sounds better in my configuration than with V6C
Just as a comparison, V6C sounds better than SS3602 in NuHybrid DIY.
That is the est you can do without making any modifications to the board itself.
Have you installed the Burson driver?Has anyone figured out how to get 32-bit audio options in Windows for the Burson Play? Because it is advertised as supporting 32-bit but it seems it only gives 16-bit and 24-bit options.
Have you installed the Burson driver?
For me that one defaults to 44.1 32-bit, in the driver toolbar it also defaults to 32-bit. Windows 10.
https://www.bursonaudio.com/downloads/I may be user an older version of the driver. Do you happen to know which one you're using? or have a link?
https://www.bursonaudio.com/downloads/
Uninstall previous and install may 15 driver
Has anyone figured out how to get 32-bit audio options in Windows for the Burson Play? Because it is advertised as supporting 32-bit but it seems it only gives 16-bit and 24-bit options.
If I remember correctly, I only got 32-bit audio in Control Panel only when I used default Windows 10 XMOS drivers.
However, getting it to play 32-bit audio will not improve audio quality, and I'm also not aware of any recording studio recording songs by default in 32-bit.
What is really important is that PLAY is using internally native 32-bit processing to adjust the output volume through the rotary knob; this wouldn't be possible without a 32-bit DAC, unless adding additional active or passive components which usually contribute to increase the noise.