When I said heard, I meant that in a different way, e.g., I heard that
the movie was good...
Quite frankly the entire matter doesn't concern me - the Audio Mirror
DAC sounds good in my ears, the price was right, and that's the bottom
line. I feel bad for it's creator, Vlad...
You should try and
mftech wrote:
Hi Robin,
this is a very good idea to re-cycle some of my DACMagic II !
I suggest you to replace all three transformer, they are not very
reliable.
If you remove the tape around the tranfo you fill a little fuse or
thermistor, you may try to replace them but in my case I prefer to
Nice post. I don't want to hijack this thread but, since you had a long
wait from Dabs and got your SB2 at exactly the same time as me, I
suspect you have one of exactly the same batch that I just got.
Unfortunately my SB2 seems to be partially dead on arrival, I can get
absolutely no output from
The SB2 analogue outs are a definite improvement over the SB1's and and
after upgrading I thought I could probably dump my Perpetual
Technologies P3-A Dac, PA-1 upsampler and Monolithic psu. However, I'm
glad I waited a while because it has become obvious (with familiarity)
that the PT gives me a
Thanks for the feedback. Don't have much time tonight, but I could try
the hd650's via the headphone out on the squeezebox if you want
Sithuk.
One thing worth mentioning about the HD600/650's is that they don't
keep out much background noise, something to beware of if you have a pc
in your
Thanks for the reply bludragon. Yes, my analogue outputs do work. Right
now I am using the SB2 with my Meridian DSP5000 speakers by feeding the
SB2 analogue outputs into a £14.95 analogue to digital converter that I
happened to have in a cupboard. Needless to say I'm not in a position
to
Blu,
I would very much appreciate your review of the SB2 headphone socket
with a HD600/650 headphone. I have not been able to find one yet.
Specifically I'd like to know the impacts of using a separate headphone
amp and/or a separate DAC when compared to the stock SB2 socket. Can a
difference be
This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to correct an erroneous statement
I made previously. The Wadia 861 CDP that I use for an external DAC
with the SB2 does indeed have a 75 ohm termination. However, it is only
terminated for AC signals (i.e. they use a cap in series with 75ohms)
which is
Very interesting - sounds fine but I wonder why they did it that way.
Presumably there's a transformer already knocking out the DC?
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DACs are a very personal thing what sounds good to one person turns
another person off entirely. I have not heard a DAC that I like better
than the Classe DAC1. They retailed for $4,000 and were worth that
price new. They can be had for as little as $800 now. A used Classe
DAC1 is a steal at
Sean,
It doesn't look like a transformer coupled interface although that
could be used as well.
I can think of two reasons to use a DC block for tranmission line
matching.
1. To reduce quiescent power dissipation.
2. To eliminate ground loops when using single ended interfaces.
I doubt they
Latest svn and the next nightly build (along with Squeezebox2 firmware
22) implements volume normalization/Replay Gain for various audio and
tag formats - ogg, FLAC, MP3Gain (APETAGEX), AACGain, RVAD (MP3 via
iTunes) and RVA2.
There is now a Replay Gain setting under the Player Settings
Any suggestions as I have very little idea how to optimally set this new
function.
I have nuforce amps and the specs say: max input voltage=1.2V,
Gain=26db, Input Impedance: 47K ohm, SNR = 120 db at 100W.
Any help would be appreciated.
Right now without applying the updated firmware and
vidurapparao Wrote:
Latest svn and the next nightly build (along with Squeezebox2 firmware
22) implements volume normalization/Replay Gain for various audio and
tag formats - ogg, FLAC, MP3Gain (APETAGEX), AACGain, RVAD (MP3 via
iTunes) and RVA2.
There is now a Replay Gain setting
Wh now I'm excited Kevin P from Slim Devices support got me
up and running on his first attempt at diagnosing the problem. It was a
corruption in the Xilinx CPLD so reprogramming it did the trick.
I can confirm that (shock horror) feeding the digital output of the SB2
directly into
rme Wrote:
Any suggestions as I have very little idea how to optimally set this new
function.
I have nuforce amps and the specs say: max input voltage=1.2V,
Gain=26db, Input Impedance: 47K ohm, SNR = 120 db at 100W.
Any help would be appreciated.
Right now without applying the
Hmmm.. if Wadia is good with capacitor coupling at their price point, it
makes you wonder why anyone is spending for transformers. AFAICT the
waveforms are identical at these frequencies... can anyone shed some
light?
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Well the latest volume control settings have made a BIG improvement in
low-volume resolution.
I've now set the SB2 preamp control to 15dB attentuation (along with
10dB at my power amp) and there's plenty of adjustment at low volumes.
This also means that my maximum volume is now 15dB louder!!
Just to clarify any potential misunderstanding:
My maximum volume has only increased by 15dB because I've decreased my
SB2 preamp attenuation setting from 30dB to 15dB.
I wouldn't want anyone to think that the new volume control changes
will magically increase the SB2 maximum volume! It simply
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