Ah, good to hear. I had heard earlier that some of their intellectual property was lost in the fire so they might not be able to just start manufacturing elsewhere easily.
Here is Schiit talking about switching to Sabre possibly. But it's a bit older of a video. See from 12:05.
A powerful piece of hardware that does not handcuff you to a certain sound signature. As is you will be greatly satisfied. Dive into the option of modelling your sound to your own preference and you'll realize it's what you need. You can integrate all your headphones perfectly using the DSP/eq and save your setting for each specific headphone. Congrats!
There was an interesting article by one of the amp manufacturers that discussed the relationship between component parts and retail price. I think it was in relationship to bypassing the outputs to prevent DC but the key point was that there is a multiplier based on parts costs and that often something that seems to the customer like a minor incremental cost in this or that translates into a bigger difference out the door than would be tolerable.
Thankfully, RME is a pro audio company. They have enough of a reputation in their market not to have to chase Chifi chip-du-jour products. The reason all the low-end manufacturers tout their late model dual DAC stuff is because it isn't any good. It's just marketing.
Some of the top players in mid-fi (meaning not high end cost is no object) are using non-top of the line chipdac SOCs. Their stuff (RME for example) is still better than the loss-leader stuff being dumped on the market.
I've been listening to NOS DACs for years and am researching for a new DAC for my headphone system. It looks pretty nice; lacking AES input but I could slum it with SPDIF Digital I suppose.
It's cheaper than other solutions on my shortlist (Metrum Acoustics Onyx/Pavane, Sonnet Audio Morpheus, Schiit Yggdrasil, Chord Qutest/HugoTT2). I'll have a little think to myself.
Thankfully, RME is a pro audio company. They have enough of a reputation in their market not to have to chase Chifi chip-du-jour products.The reason all the low-end manufacturers tout their late model dual DAC stuff is because it isn't any good. It's just marketing.
Some of the top players in mid-fi (meaning not high end cost is no object) are using non-top of the line chipdac SOCs. Their stuff (RME for example) is still better than the loss-leader stuff being dumped on the market.
A few posts back I asked about a pair of headphones to add to my Hifiman Ananda, easy to drive straight out of the RME amp as I want to keep using a single box; I’ve read reviews about the Focal Clear and Fostex, wasn’t 100% convinced and in the end I went with something that is not supposed to be easy to drive, the HEDD Heddhone, I was intrigued by the technology used in the drivers, but obviously I was concerned about the RME ability to drive them.
I can happily report the Heddphone sounds just fine, no additional amp needed. Obviously I don’t know how they will scale with a ‘better’ amp, but in terms of volume it’s no problem...I didn’t even need to engage the high power mode to get to a comfortable listening level.
I’m really wondering how loud people usually listen to headphones if they need ‘more power’.
Anybody using the focal clear with the adi 2dac/pro which power mode sounds best? I have been using it on Hi mode and thought base sounded really amazing but i don't know if its wrong
Anybody using the focal clear with the adi 2dac/pro which power mode sounds best? I have been using it on Hi mode and thought base sounded really amazing but i don't know if its wrong
Using the Elear, Clear and Elegia with the RME and powerful bass is a good indication its working well as a combo. Just don't overdrive a Focal as they are known to break easier than a Sennheiser or a Beyer.
A few posts back I asked about a pair of headphones to add to my Hifiman Ananda, easy to drive straight out of the RME amp as I want to keep using a single box; I’ve read reviews about the Focal Clear and Fostex, wasn’t 100% convinced and in the end I went with something that is not supposed to be easy to drive, the HEDD Heddhone, I was intrigued by the technology used in the drivers, but obviously I was concerned about the RME ability to drive them.
I can happily report the Heddphone sounds just fine, no additional amp needed. Obviously I don’t know how they will scale with a ‘better’ amp, but in terms of volume it’s no problem...I didn’t even need to engage the high power mode to get to a comfortable listening level.
I’m really wondering how loud people usually listen to headphones if they need ‘more power’.
If you EQ heavily, power requirements go out of the window. The LCD-2 running 6db of low frequency equalisation will need a lot more than power than standard or else it distorts. The RME barely runs out of steam with most of my cans except a couple of planars.
Using the Elear, Clear and Elegia with the RME and powerful bass is a good indication its working well as a combo. Just don't overdrive a Focal as they are known to break easier than a Sennheiser or a Beyer.
If you EQ heavily, power requirements go out of the window. The LCD-2 running 6db of low frequency equalisation will need a lot more than power than standard or else it distorts. The RME barely runs out of steam with most of my cans except a couple of planars.
That’s right. I think the power output doubles each 3db increase, although I don’t know if that totally applies to EQ (it’s just a set of frequencies).
6db increase in the low end would translate to 4x the power requirement...you can easily clip the amp.
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