Recent content by Vincent Kars

How to tell you are getting old without saying so :)

I think Gray has a good solution. It will send the full audio signal to both speakers and woofer. I assume the woofer has its own low pass filter. You can't offload the bass from your speakers. An alternative a product like the MiniDSP FLEX. It is a DAC so it can replace the ifi but it is also...

No. Bluetooth (and USB audio) are digital. A Bluetooth headphone contains a Bluetooth receiver, a DAC and an amp. It is battery powered. The only thing driven by the DAC of the phone are the speakers and the analog headphone out.

Yes! This is not about USB but about USB-C. Android started with accessoire mode. This mode allows for sending analog audio over some of the 24 pins of this connector. All you need is a passive USB-C to female TRS. Most of the mobiles use OTG. In this case, UAC2 (USB audio Class2) is send over...

Wonder where all the fuss is about. Spotify delivers a lossless file to your renderer. If your renderer is not able to provide bit perfect output, does that make Spotify lossy? I'm afraid Goldensound is unable to discriminate between lossy and bit perfect. Anyway, Spotify delivers 44.1 kHz...

My glasses are made by 2 specialist, Nina Mûr and ZEISS. Kenneth, are they big enough?

As you need a UPnP enabled renderer, have a look at WiiM or EverSolo

The PX8 is a Bluetooth headphone supporting APTX Adaptive. Get a Bluetooth transmitter supporting the same codec and connect it to a line out of the Pioneer VSA-LX805

IMHO a box that colors is simply not true to the recording and will never be. Its coloration might enhance a bad recording but at the same time spoil a good recording. That is the problem with one trick horses, they color all the time, needed or not. Better get something neutral and use DSP if...

CD-S300 is from 2009 R-N600A is from 2023 I expect the R-N600A to have the better DAC, simply less distortion, lower noise floor, etc. as DAC technology improved over time.

Manual says output impedance of the phones is 220 Ohm. A damping ratio of 8 is recommended as a bare minimum. So you need a 1760 Ohm headphone impedance? Manual also says >500 mV into 8 Ohm. If the impedance drops, the voltage drops too???? Wonder if this manual is correct and if it is, you...

An easy one. If there is a house sound, it is not true to the recording. Don't buy it.

You might try WiiM. One unit converting the analog input to digital and send it over the wifi to the second unit

Standards like S/PDIF specifies a 75 Ohm impedance. Don't mistakes this for DC resistance. Hence you can use a S/PDIF cable as an analog interconnect without any issues. In principe you shouldn't do the reverse but in practice a "analog " interconnect will do as a S/PDIF cable if the length is...

R2R often has a substantial amount of distortion. The solution is to call this coloration "musical" e voila, marketing problem solved. However the Ares 2 performs surprisingly good. So good it makes you wonder if is musical at all...