Recent content by ManniX

Sorry but I think you have no idea what noise can do in the digital domain... This is a DAC and it's using the USB Audio Class, it's not file transfer. Read about it, there's plenty of documentation everywhere. Not necessarily, there's some good stuff and they are not a scam. Search...

I'm quite happy with the ZD3, would avoid SMSL. The DO100Pro looks really good on paper but the company is a disaster. The ZD3 had some issues with HDMI ARC but seems they were resolved. Just looking at SMSL's product page makes me shiver: Doesn't look promising at all... Anyway switching...

Look I don't want to argue with you and I can't care less. As said before, it's a way to improve audio quality spending a lot of money which is not always needed but for sure better than a linear PSU. After a point, very quickly, it gets below the audible level and it's just a matter of getting...

There is audible difference, that's why I started replacing the cables. The noise was very much audible. That's also why I bought the audio interface to test and confirm it. If you use a laptop and don't connect it to the AC, yes you probably don't need a USB isolator. Otherwise you probably...

You don't need expensive cables to make it work. But if you want that audio quality from my screenshot, yes you need it. I bought all kind of cheap but decent cables and they were all terrible. Audio and USB. Measured terrible not aesthetics. Spent 8€, 10€, 20€, €30,... all "working" but...

@Konstantinos There are better ways to spend money to improve the audio quality, in a measurable way, and obtain the above. High quality audio cables is the most important, I use RCA and bought these SKW cables, top notch: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B073GTDGZP/ For XLR the Mogami with Neutrik...

Yes a PSU can introduce noise. But generally only if you a have a bad AC at home. Using batteries and a laptop is generally a setup for measurements. Here below the ZD3 with his PSU, nothing special, the arrow points at the AC noise coming through the PSU/environment. I think it's at -128dB...

Not really sure how it's relevant but anyway there's no real "bitperfect" going thru the Windows mixer; that's why there's ASIO. WASAPI Shared is close enough in my opinion and much easier to use than any exclusive mode. My worsening of the optical output from the Realtek on-board audio was due...

The Realtek drivers are amongst the worst; the XMOS interface is used by all DACs because it's a very powerful and stable USB audio interface. I have the ZD3 connected to the integrated Realtek ALC1220P via optical cable and it sucks. I never use it of course but I keep the drivers updated and...

It's for sure technically better, depends on what you listen if it makes a difference. Since it's not very challenging, give it a try. You can always keep both the optical and USB connected. The ASIO driver from Realtek it's quite horrible, that could be already a plus by itself.

If you don't have an issue with the power supply, it probably won't. No need for anything beefier as well. Spend the money on audio equipment to verify the audio quality with MTA. Will make worthwhile any other expense and will avoid wasting money on something which you wouldn't need. Yes it...

Looks like the intended behavior. The ZD3 has an "anti-pop filter" which is meant to soft the pops not eliminate them. Indeed in comparison to the D50s I have too, they are less and much more subtle. Click on the USB drivers icon in the system tray, if it's Windows, Info tab under Revision...

Seems a bit too harsh to me :) I'd say unfinished if there was something it was supposed to be there which isn't. And this is not the case. Also, it doesn't look to be bug ridden, quite the opposite. Yes maybe not fully featured but it's a great measuring device at a very bargain price, there...

I was just wondering if it was the shaft or the knob. Wow, the shaft is bad... I had to check multiple times the shaft on the 1st unit, I had to use really a lot of force to pull out the knob and I was worried. But it never wiggled even a bit. Hopefully yes. Always avoid Hubs. On AMD...

Yes I think we all had the same idea more or less, it'd be so natural. Let's hope @Fosi Audio will find some spare XP points for this development :) But I guess, and I hope, they are working already on a successor model. It'd be nice to have the same but less frugal, with options, LDAC, 5V/2.5V...