How can that tiny ass cable work out better than xonar ? oO
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I do..Sup wrote:
DVD Audio and SACD only. Who has them here? Anybody?Bertster7 wrote:
What utter nonsense.
No one cares about THX, but Dolby and DTS are very worthwhile for lots of people who are into audio. Unless you're talking about the big pile of shite that is prologic....
Converted all my DTS-Audio CDs to play back on PC too. Wrote a big old batch script to change the sample rate so they sound right. Took ages, but was worth it. Split to 6 mono tracks, resample each track at the right rate, recombine the tracks and you end up with nice .dts files that actually work.
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That is a sound card in my book. It is powered by the computer, and it requires its own drivers on the computer..Sup wrote:
http://www.headphonia.com/USB-DAC-Cable … d69d874dadFreezer7Pro wrote:
Right. Show me an external DAC for under $90 with over 100dB SNR and under 0.005% distortion. I dare you..Sup wrote:
Who would be so stupid to "buy a similarly performing external DAC for three or four times the price"? This doesn't make any sense. Do you have a DAC? I compared soundcards to DACs that cost less and over perform soundcards. Why? Because they are concentrated on best 2.0 stereo sound while with soundcards you pay 50% of its cost for Dolby and THX license which no one who's really into audio needs/wants. Soundcards are overpriced not DACs.
60$
laugh some more dick
Even so, it only performs almost as good as a Xonar DX, and doesn't come with either a trace of an ADC, or more than two channels. Not bad for $60, if all you want is decent two-channel audio out, but in my opinion, the high-end ADC, better performance and added flexibility of the Xonar is worth $20.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Your book of rules that Moses wrote himself? Get the fuck out. Its a DAC . And why would anyone want ADC for music listening? Are you trolling?Freezer7Pro wrote:
That is a sound card in my book. It is powered by the computer, and it requires its own drivers on the computer..Sup wrote:
http://www.headphonia.com/USB-DAC-Cable … d69d874dadFreezer7Pro wrote:
Right. Show me an external DAC for under $90 with over 100dB SNR and under 0.005% distortion. I dare you.
60$
laugh some more dick
Even so, it only performs almost as good as a Xonar DX, and doesn't come with either a trace of an ADC, or more than two channels. Not bad for $60, if all you want is decent two-channel audio out, but in my opinion, the high-end ADC, better performance and added flexibility of the Xonar is worth $20.
It is a DAC. But the opinion that it's just a striped down external sound card is just as valid..Sup wrote:
Your book of rules that Moses wrote himself? Get the fuck out. Its a DAC . And why would anyone want ADC for music listening? Are you trolling?Freezer7Pro wrote:
That is a sound card in my book. It is powered by the computer, and it requires its own drivers on the computer.
Even so, it only performs almost as good as a Xonar DX, and doesn't come with either a trace of an ADC, or more than two channels. Not bad for $60, if all you want is decent two-channel audio out, but in my opinion, the high-end ADC, better performance and added flexibility of the Xonar is worth $20.
The Xonar is also a DAC by that definition. The only difference is that that thing is connected to another bus, about 20cm away. You also don't get a dedicated power supply, one of the more valid (and also more costly) features of an external DAC..Sup wrote:
Your book of rules that Moses wrote himself? Get the fuck out. Its a DAC . And why would anyone want ADC for music listening? Are you trolling?Freezer7Pro wrote:
That is a sound card in my book. It is powered by the computer, and it requires its own drivers on the computer..Sup wrote:
http://www.headphonia.com/USB-DAC-Cable/USB-DAC-Cable-with-35mm-Mini-Plug-75cm-30::10134.html?XTCsid=043ad788ff15ea26e1800bd69d874dad
60$
laugh some more dick
Even so, it only performs almost as good as a Xonar DX, and doesn't come with either a trace of an ADC, or more than two channels. Not bad for $60, if all you want is decent two-channel audio out, but in my opinion, the high-end ADC, better performance and added flexibility of the Xonar is worth $20.
I didn't say it's bad for music listening, it also is beyond the point of diminishing returns when it comes to sound quality, as long as your amplifier has high-enough input impedance to compensate for the minimal bypass capacitors. However, it does not perform as good as the DX, and you're sacrificing a lot of features for small savings. I don't know about you, but I'm a gamer, and I use a microphone with my PC on a daily basis.
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The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
O fcourse everything that plays audio has a DAC but that doesn't mean that cable is a soundcard.Freezer7Pro wrote:
The Xonar is also a DAC by that definition. The only difference is that that thing is connected to another bus, about 20cm away. You also don't get a dedicated power supply, one of the more valid (and also more costly) features of an external DAC..Sup wrote:
Your book of rules that Moses wrote himself? Get the fuck out. Its a DAC . And why would anyone want ADC for music listening? Are you trolling?Freezer7Pro wrote:
That is a sound card in my book. It is powered by the computer, and it requires its own drivers on the computer.
Even so, it only performs almost as good as a Xonar DX, and doesn't come with either a trace of an ADC, or more than two channels. Not bad for $60, if all you want is decent two-channel audio out, but in my opinion, the high-end ADC, better performance and added flexibility of the Xonar is worth $20.
I didn't say it's bad for music listening, it also is beyond the point of diminishing returns when it comes to sound quality, as long as your amplifier has high-enough input impedance to compensate for the minimal bypass capacitors. However, it does not perform as good as the DX, and you're sacrificing a lot of features for small savings. I don't know about you, but I'm a gamer, and I use a microphone with my PC on a daily basis.
And how would you know DX compares better to the usb DAC cable? And don't tell me specs cause they don't mean half of it
Oh golly, here we go again!.Sup wrote:
O fcourse everything that plays audio has a DAC but that doesn't mean that cable is a soundcard.Freezer7Pro wrote:
The Xonar is also a DAC by that definition. The only difference is that that thing is connected to another bus, about 20cm away. You also don't get a dedicated power supply, one of the more valid (and also more costly) features of an external DAC..Sup wrote:
Your book of rules that Moses wrote himself? Get the fuck out. Its a DAC . And why would anyone want ADC for music listening? Are you trolling?
I didn't say it's bad for music listening, it also is beyond the point of diminishing returns when it comes to sound quality, as long as your amplifier has high-enough input impedance to compensate for the minimal bypass capacitors. However, it does not perform as good as the DX, and you're sacrificing a lot of features for small savings. I don't know about you, but I'm a gamer, and I use a microphone with my PC on a daily basis.
And how would you know DX compares better to the usb DAC cable? And don't tell me specs cause they don't mean half of it
"Measurements don't matter! The oogie-boogie Audio Gods have dipped this peripheral in the holy well of music! No human engineering could ever match this treatment, thou they are not sacred!"
It doesn't work that way. Electro-acoustic engineering is a very well-understood area of science, and every change in sound you hear can be very well explained. This applies especially to things like digital-to-analogue converters, as they don't even touch the "acoustic" part of it. They are purely electronic devices, that might as well be used in function generators or in measurement devices! And brand A function generator won't generate a tone better than brand B just because it has "audiophile grade" capacitors in the power supply. In fact, you won't find "audiophile grade" capacitors in even the most expensive of function generators, I wonder why...
Anyhow, now that we're past that, the cable you linked to is a good and cheap device for converting digital signals to analogue, but it is to the same extent vulnerable to the same things as an internal sound card is, which makes me wonder why it would be better than an internal card in the first place.
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The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Bought the latest Kindle - Paperwhite version.
My dad dropped his older model version so gave him mine and decided to upgrade.
Not sure how the light will be, looking forward to it though.
My dad dropped his older model version so gave him mine and decided to upgrade.
Not sure how the light will be, looking forward to it though.
