Recent content by Vincent Kars

There ain't such thing as a newer version of aptX HD. There is a new product explicitly labeled aptX Lossless. Maybe you can find a transmitter and a receiver supporting this protocol.

Indeed Airplay 2 uses AAC most of the time. Don't think aptX HD is an improvement https://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/HW/Bluetooth.htm

You mean you don't understand digital audio at all? PCM audio consists of samples to be played with a certain sample rate. If the sample rate is 44.1 kHz, each 1/44100 of a second the numerical value of the sample is converted to a equivalent voltage. Indeed the output of a DAC (the chip doing...

Sure, the WiiM comes with an EQ (10 bands?) so you can try it. Of course it work only for gear connected to the line in of the WiiM, EQ is different from DRC (but don't ask me what the real difference is)

It can be done e.g. miniDSP Flex as it can run Dirac. Unfortunately your amp has a pre-out but not a power amp in. So you need: switchbox >Flex > amp. Try near filed listening. Have the tweeters at ear level, toe-in having the acoustical axis of the speaker pointing straight to your head and...

It is not about a short. Having 2 amps connected to each other is having them injecting their power into each other. Most of the time this means smoke signals...

If 2 turntables skip, it might indeed be that none of them skips but you do have dropouts somewhere in the signal transmission.

2009 https://www.yankodesign.com/2009/02/17/tweaked-vinyl-player-with-modern-perks/

Have a look here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-ps-audio-perfectwave-directstream-dac.9100/

Some DAC's do but the reliability is questioned. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/usb-dac-that-shows-bit-depth-on-display.23349/

The Eversolo is a streamer. It knows the source and because of that the bit depth. A DAC like the FiiO doesn't know the source, it receives a protocol like SPDIF or UAC2

I wonder if displaying the actual bit depth of the source by a DAC is possible at all. About 10 years ago media players started implementing WASAPI in Exclusive mode. When playing a 16 bit file, my DAC stayed mute. It is a 24 bit one so needs 24 bit in the register to function properly. Had...

No, the reverse. The Marantz has 2 digital inputs only, a optical and a coax. No digital out. So TV > SPDIF over optical > converter to SPDIF electrical > coax input on amp.

Try a hairdryer. As soon as the adhesive gets warm, you can peel it of without damage.

No. Balanced as used to connect gear at line level is a hot (the signal), a cold (the reverse of the hot) and a ground. At the receiver a differential amp compares the hot and the cold and any difference is removed. This is called common noise rejection. In case of a "balanced" headphone...