miyinan
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I just ordered it. Exciting and can't wait for trying it out.
Well that also means the volume control doesn't effect it but some DAC's use an opamp even on the DAC outputs. Not that it really amplifies the signal enough for headphone.
Is the opamp in the headamp section rollable?
Someone else previously asked if this DAC amp is a good match for a pair of Denon D5000. Could you tell ?
P86. I note that you previously had (or listened to) the X-CANv8... I know many people consider it more of a dac AMP, but I'd be very happy if you could tell us a few words to compare them.
Thanks in advance,
I recently went with the Audiotrak DR.DAC2 DX rather than the Yulong D100 (mostly because of lack of volume control on the line out, impressions here: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/496590/dr-dac2-dx-unboxing/15#post_6984827). Still, I'd be curious about the following:
- Which sample rates does the Yulong D100 accept via USB? The DR.DAC2 DX does 44.1, 48, and 96 kHz but no 88.2 kHz.
- How susceptible is the Yulong D100 to how it's connected via USB? With the DR.DAC2 DX I get crackling noises if I use it via a USB hub. Directly plugging it into the laptop it works fine (and it also works fine with USB hub on an other laptop).
Thanks
To answer your questions:
1) All of those sample rates, including 88.2kHz, work via USB input. Not that I have much of a library of 88.2kHz material..... I think I've got one album and maybe a few single tracks and that's it. You probably aren't missing much.
2) Interesting. I posted once earlier about how on a very hot day I heard a bunch of distortion from the D100 when using the USB input, and then it eventually lost the signal. I assumed something was getting too hot, perhaps the TAS1020B chip. But maybe I was all wrong. Maybe I just had it plugged into a USB port that it didn't like. I don't own an external hub, but I know that laptops sometimes have differences between the multiple USB ports on one side of the device and the single USB port on the other. I've not been able to reproduce that error though. What does your problem sound like when you use a hub?
Thanks for your answer!
The USB problem is perfectly reproducible every time I try it. On the least affected USB port it's just an occasional crackle/pop; on the most affected one it's close to constant static.
Are you talking about the usb problem of the Dr. Dac2? I just received my Yulong D100 last week and never had any problem with the usb yet.
Anyone had a chance to compare this to the Yulong 1704 Dac? I can't seem to find any impressions of that on here. I'm not interested in the amps cause I've got the M-Stage showing up soon-just looking at the dac portion. Thanks!
-Daniel