haha lol I didn't. That $26 is a sweet deal. I had bought it for $38, plus customs department unexpectedly charged me a whopping 40% duty over it. This is the only time I had been charged custom duty... so my NX1 is 'special' and most expensive NX1 in the world
What exactly could a person mod anyways, other than the opamp (btw has anybody actually confirmed what the nx1 uses? I remember folks debating it, but not any confirmation)
Assuming the DAC in NX2 is better than the built-in DAC of your laptop, then yes. However, the DAC in NX2 is actually a pretty basic model and there is no telling whether you will find it better.
YMMV but I have found that just about anything I've ever tried sounds better than laptop soundcards/headphone out
Unless you have upgraded this section of your laptop I would say yes, I think using the NX1 will give you better SQ and power to what ever your driving. I'm sure there are others far more versed in this than I that may chime in
I've come to the allmost same conclusion. Laptop and pc onboard souncards are generally terrible but all the tv's I've tried have even worse headphone output. Imo differences between dac's are subtle but when I plugged topping to my tv I was schocked. Difference between a $20 dac and my tv is a lot bigger than the difference between $20 dac and my $1000 desktop dac. Don't know much about the technical stuff so maybe it could be that my tv's headphone out is just physically bad and doesn't create a proper connection but whatever the case it sounds horrible.
I'm still confused guys, so when comparing laptop + NX1 vs. laptop + NX2, can average listener hear the difference which can justify 25$ price difference?
I've come to the allmost same conclusion. Laptop and pc onboard souncards are generally terrible but all the tv's I've tried have even worse headphone output. Imo differences between dac's are subtle but when I plugged topping to my tv I was schocked. Difference between a $20 dac and my tv is a lot bigger than the difference between $20 dac and my $1000 desktop dac. Don't know much about the technical stuff so maybe it could be that my tv's headphone out is just physically bad and doesn't create a proper connection but whatever the case it sounds horrible.
I've gone one step further in this and ran a external powered (Monster) speaker into the DAC and the TV sounded 100 times better than it's on on-board speaker! Both my younger boys were given these Monster speakers which are also Bluetooth by their older brother and they link via Bluetooth so you can run two (I think the manual say up to eight
). Not stereo but if you don't want to buy say a Sub/Soundbar setup this may be the next best thing. Shopped wisely you can have the pair NX2/1 Monster) for just around a Ben Franklin
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