Maybe you are even better off with modified AND an external DAC
http://www.at-view.co.uk/sb2_spdif.htm
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Wow, that's visual. (thanks) I wonder what mods they do. That might be a
power-supply mod, but it'd be great to know if it's more than that.
It'd be cool to see the SB3 waveform, and a waveform from a stock
sb2sb3 with a hosfelt or elpac power brick.
edit: looking at their offering, they sure
max.spicer Wrote:
Some of my tracks and albums get some fairly substantial replay gain
adjustments (around -11dB). This means that when I have replay gain
enabled, particularly in smart mode, they end up sounding nowhere near
as good as they normally do. I wonder if this is some of the
Dan, sorry if I misled you - it's my site.
The mods ARE more than just a PSU - the S/PDIF output is transformer
coupled amongst other things. I thought you might find the difference
in waveforms interesting, but unfortunately it can't tell you how
different they sound!
Yes the picture is a CAD
Patrick Dixon Wrote:
Anyway, the latest nightlies have a gain control that works fine -
no resolution loss above -35dB, so it should sound alright.
If you are refering to this change:
- return int(($floatmult * (1 16)) + 0.5);
+ if ($db = -35 $db = 0) {
+ return int($floatmult * (1
