jehugo
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I picked up a couple ADs and another OPA. Gonna try each in a CMOY and decide if i want to try them in the STX (such a pain to rip out there card to audition )
The factory buffer op-amp is the LM4562NA, which renamed the LME49720NA, the cherry picks (better voltage range) of the LME49720NA are renamed LME49860NA.
The better upgrade op-amps are the AD797, they are considered finicky op-amps, but I believe they work well with the Xonar Essence.
I thought the stock amps in all slots were JRC211?
Recently bought an essence stx and started to swap op amps too. I'm very new to this.
One question though - Do the two op amp used in I/V have to be the identical? Can I put different ones in it?
If yes, should I do it?
A quick question, I've looked at the impedance chart for the 558s;
I get good volume with normal gain, but should it be set to High Gain because of their spiked impedance?
Although this sound cards supports impedance up to 600Ohms would it be a good DAC to pair with a higher end headphone amplifier? I was thinking of getting a Schiit Valhalla with an STX.
Ok guys few questions for a future owner of STX, this thread is too long to find the exact answers for all of this questions, i know there is guide in the first page, but the original post is kinda old, so i will just make sure and ask again, to chek if the settings are still good to go.
1. What settings should i chose in the Asus Audio centar? Hi-Fi mode? should i ever bother with 44/96/192khz if i have songs in that resoloution? If thats the case, what setting should i use in Windows playback device options, do they have to be same?
2. I heard that with soundcard better drivers offer better sound quallity, is this true? and what drivers are least glitchy? what version should i use, Uni vs Asus?
3. The gain for the HD595 should be 0- 64 right?
4. Aimp3 - Wasapi, better then ASIO regarding sound quallity?
5. Any other suggestions of good setup?
6. Max volume trough windows, and audio/video players, and control the sound trough audio centar, right? or maybe 90% volume is good enough?
7. I got high end pc, and i game from time to time, i also have AMD 6970 video card (most of the time overclocked quite a bit) and fan @ like 60% during games, and 35% during idle, so i got this idea to install the sound card as far as it possible (last slot on the mobo) from the video card in order to avoid noise interference from the video card fan.... ( and get better/cleaner sound quallity) is this prefered or i should not worry at all?
Thanks!
Woah. Weird!
I adapted the RCA outs DIRECTLY to a TRS and plugged my 880/600's into it and it drives it to like 120dB. Why does this card even have a HPA?!
Ok guys few questions for a future owner of STX, this thread is too long to find the exact answers for all of this questions, i know there is guide in the first page, but the original post is kinda old, so i will just make sure and ask again, to chek if the settings are still good to go.
1. What settings should i chose in the Asus Audio centar? Hi-Fi mode? should i ever bother with 44/96/192khz if i have songs in that resoloution? If thats the case, what setting should i use in Windows playback device options, do they have to be same?
2. I heard that with soundcard better drivers offer better sound quallity, is this true? and what drivers are least glitchy? what version should i use, Uni vs Asus?
3. The gain for the HD595 should be 0- 64 right?
4. Aimp3 - Wasapi, better then ASIO regarding sound quallity?
5. Any other suggestions of good setup?
6. Max volume trough windows, and audio/video players, and control the sound trough audio centar, right? or maybe 90% volume is good enough?
7. I got high end pc, and i game from time to time, i also have AMD 6970 video card (most of the time overclocked quite a bit) and fan @ like 60% during games, and 35% during idle, so i got this idea to install the sound card as far as it possible (last slot on the mobo) from the video card in order to avoid noise interference from the video card fan.... ( and get better/cleaner sound quallity) is this prefered or i should not worry at all?
Thanks!