Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Some observations about the Benchmark DAC1

2013-05-05 Thread Archimago
Had a look at the effect on the ASUS Essence One which has a "symettric upsampling" feature. So 44.1kHz material is upsampled 8x to 352.8kHz. No upsampling - square wave, 0dBFS, 1.00227 kHz: 14787 With 8x upsampling - square wave, 0dBFS, 1.00227 kHz: 14788 Nice :-) Harmonics remain clean and I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Idea to increase "Headroom" with lossless volume change

2013-05-05 Thread Archimago
Julf wrote: > And even if you hit that very special +11 dB beast, all that happens is > that you clip one sample period. How much clipping was there in that > Iggy recording again? :) Yup. And since we're upsampling, the duration of that sample period is even briefer. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Some Squeezebox numbers to consider...

2013-05-05 Thread cdmackay
Gandhi wrote: > Regarding cable directionality, my analog electronics teacher a loong > time ago taught me the following. I was just discussing this with a friend, who's a qualified electrical engineer, and whilst he agreed with: > In a shielded signal cable, the shield is only connected in one

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Idea to increase "Headroom" with lossless volume change

2013-05-05 Thread Julf
Archimago wrote: > I want to see a *real* piece of music (not some synthetic test tone) > that needs +5dB headroom (not to mention +11dB as in one of the other > threads). I'm thinking a 3dB headroom (1/2-bit) should be enough for > upsampling... And even if you hit that very special +11 dB beas