Recent content by roderickvd

With you on the floating point precision but sadly most hardware implementations I have seen are in integer.

Impedances should be fine. Don’t know about that driver, but if you are saying it attenuates DSD then it must also do so by some digital-to-digital conversion.

We are on ASR here, not on Head-Fi. If you claim that relays with control traces impact audio quality compared to DIP switches, assuming equally good level of engineering, please provide evidence to back that up. I would be genuinely interested to see that. On the contrary, when it’s opinion or...

You seem to be right on the pictures, had not spotted the V2.0 on the PCB. Your arguments about relays make no sense. Relays do not influence signals (other than either passing them, or not) and do not require to extend traces of signals they switch. …which is a case in point.

Could do it another way though, like relays or multiplexer controlled by a front panel button. If they paid attention to the reviews, it would make total sense. Like with the SDA-6 refresh, it seems that none of the new pictures are available yet.

They are active simultaneously.

Impedance will be roughly halved, doubling current draw, and wonky across the frequency spectrum, possibly impacting phase. It will probably work but I don’t recommend it.

There’s hardware volume control on the USB input. You can control it using with Linux for example, but not with the remote.

It’s on their website, look it up. I asked some months ago and they would not say.

Objectively I don’t think it’s a good stackup. Go RCA and you throw away half of the R2R ladder. Go XLR and your impedance does not match so nicely. Pick your poison or choose something else, I would say.

Oh man that would be something. And then the resistor ladder as analog stage?

Thanks @DonH56. I realise that these factors are at play. So was interested to know if there's any typical "agreement" on what's used in such circles. Or maybe recognised different schools of thought. You know, like on the audio enthusiast side there's this "linear steep" group, the "minimum...

And I'd answer: a personal interest to learn whether myself & others can be shown to reliably favour a steep, early roll-off filter at playback over a conventional one, and if so, what would explain that. All this regardless of how some artist might or might not have cared, what he/she/their...

Right so how is this in practice? I just don't know how this is in pro audio recording / production circles. Are those transition bands on 44.1 kHz material usually too slow to reach proper attenuation before 22.05 kHz? I'm having fun toying around with this on HQPlayer, which offers a...

Was almost about to open a new topic when I found this one. Sorry for reviving, or actually not really sorry, as I would be keen to hearing your thoughts on these comments by Bruno Putzeys way back in 2003: Source: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/sacd-fundamentally-flawed.26075/page-3...