Recent content by Vincent Kars

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    Digital Audio Players (DAPs)

    My mobile has a slot for a 1TB SD card. No need for a DAP.
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    Well that's annoying

    Sounds like a ground loop to me. Try connecting the Sony using Bluetooth. If the hum disappears it is likely a ground loop.
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    Please help: Unexpected distortion after upgrading DAC + speakers

    Try to narrow done the problem. You probably have a headphone out on the PC. Connect the Edifiers using a 3.5 trs to 2x RCA. If the problem persist, it is not the iFi. If you happen to have a mobile with a headphone out, do the same. If the problem persist, it is likely the Edifier. Connect...
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    Question Hi-fi and Windows 11

    Pardon? If you want to bypass the Win audio stack you are complaining about, you have to do 2 things. In the Win audio panel you do have to check "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device". Do so in the audio panel of the Mojo. If you don't do that, you get the Win default...
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    Question Hi-fi and Windows 11

    Have you Googled "Windows 11 wasapi exclusive"?
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    mconnect -> tidal -> streamer

    That is how UPnP works. You have a server (Tidal or any UPnP server in your LAN) Mconnect is the control point, it browses the server for its content. If you select a track to play, the URL is send to the renderer N25 Depends. In case of Win, all audio is re-sampled to the settings in the...
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    Finding test tones / sine waves

    You might try https://www.audiocheck.net/ all kind of test tones https://www.roomeqwizard.com/ Signal Generator offering: sine waves (optionally including harmonics with level and phase control) Square waves Sawtooth Dual tone signals Triple tone signals Multitone signals Tone bursts...
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    Rip, store & play cd collection

    Nothing wrong with a Nash
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    Rip, store & play cd collection

    My preference is to rip them on a PC. Yes it is a job and you better do it right the first time so use good ripping software supplying the right meta data (tags). My preference is dBpoweramp: It is fast and stable. Easy to configure. It supports AccurateRip (they invented it) Meta data from...
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    Adding AptX

    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.
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    Adding AptX

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

    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...
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    Room correction- mainly analogue setup

    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)
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    Room correction- mainly analogue setup

    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...
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    Speaker hook up

    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...