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Yup. But there is a version that comes with the DSP that supports all of sonics software too apparently.

Well it looks like Metric Halo sells the same hardware as Sonic: Sonic Studio 302 vs. UA 2192 converters - Gearslutz.com And it's a hell of a lot cheaper: Equivalent to sonic 302: Metric Halo ULN-2 Mobile I/O FireWire audio interface Expanded | Products | Tekserve Looks equavalent to Sonic Model 303 or 304: Metric Halo Mobile Audio I/O 2882 Expanded | Products | Tekserve The sonic prices for those two can be found here: Model 300 Audio Interfaces

Sounds like a good time man! I'm really interested in hearing the software and what it does. My guess it that it will sound very nice and probably has a minimum phase digital filter and other things to smooth out the sound. Did they give you any idea as to pricing? The model 4 looks like it kicks ass and the eq software etc that's included are nice. I recommend you look at the Mytek too but to be honest at that level if you are happy with the features and find it easy to use then you're likely better off. Make sure you check out gearslutz. Edit: the pricing is right on the website

I have no problem with them doing it for complete overkill but claiming it's audible is BS which they do.

I bought it at Amazon just now.

That will be a fun 11 months or so

Threads are "about" stuff?

Perforated? The dust cover has tiny perforations in it.

Well they spec how they test the THD: for example the DT770M is spec'd to <.2% under IEC 60268-7. That's a whole lot less. Also Beyer specs 5 - 35,000 Hz for the DT770M. So either Beyer is full of shit because you can look at the DT770 graph over at Headroom and it varies a hell of a lot.. I seriously doubt those phones are "flat".

No way in hell. Lets throw heated air/dust at the plastic shield....

Yup. I have to keep my head still with these bad boys or they crinkle but that's not too difficult.

Now I remember why I wasn't so hot on Sonic Studio: they also go on to talk about their math having a noise floor below -110 db which is fine but in a plaback system there is no way in hell you're hearing all the way down there (unless you're blessed with music that is 40 db below FS).

I hope you enjoy it What's the price? My Vintage King trial of the Weiss DAC2 and Mytek arrives tomorrow. Mytek has an 8 in 8 out AD/DA that might fit your bill and there is even a DSD option for a little extra money.

Well 0.9% (which is less than 1) a hell of a lot of distortion and 16-20k isn't that wide if they are using the standard -3dB. I actually correct my headphones to dead-flat with an EQ plus a slow roll off in the highs to correct for HF rolloff of flat monitors in an actual mastering studio (see the Etymotic Website here Etymotic Research, Inc. - ER-4 - Technical Specifications, they have one without the roll off that's the ER-4B). If they really are flat I'm interested but I can get there probably for cheaper and with less distortion with HD650s.

[showUID]=421&tx_sbproductdatabase_pi1[showUid][backPID]=93&cHash=ea00ad4144]http://www.beyerdynamic.de/en/broadcast-studio-video-production/products/headphonesheadsets/headphones.html?tx_sbproductdatabase_pi1[showUid][showUID]=421&tx_sbproductdatabase_pi1[showUid][backPID]=93&cHash=ea00ad4144 <1% doesn't seem so hot for distortion and the frequency reponse doesn't seems so good either. The fact they are "standards" is likely the issue.

Happy Birthday to you sir!

Oh yeah it does..... I don't remember the details but it's in the manual: http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/system1/files/documents/DAC1_-_Manual_-_Rev_L.pdf

The Bel Canto DAC3 is an excellent DAC but it is rather "hot". It's actually hotter than my +12 dBu DEQ2496. I'm doing a voltmeter matched comparison right now and the DAC3 sits at a volume of 96 which means it's probably +16 dBu at full scale. Voltage divider is perfectly fine as long as it's done well.

Yeah you're right . It's not quite the same thing as 1 bit PCM which would be delta modulated. Since they use delta sigma though the order of the filtering changes: Delta-sigma modulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Still in the end it's "easy" to go from one to the other but the data is not preserved exactly because there is a filter involved etc.....

I'm afraid it is the same thing actually DSD is pulse code modulated audio (PCM), it just happens that if you're doing it with 1 bit you call it delta sigma modulated. You guys are calling PCM with higher bit depths and lower sampling rates as PCM but it just plain isn't. It's like everyone in my particular field calls RANS by the name CFD but in fact pretty much everything using a computer to solve fluid problems is CFD. DXD is just high speed PCM and another label. The end products from DSD and PCM are different actually, because in PCM when they use a delta sigma DAC they low pass filter to get rid of the high frequency noise that a lot of DSD DACs just let through. There are some really interesting AES papers on DSD (actually all delta sigma dacs) and noise shaping around too. There some links on the DSD wikipedia page: Direct Stream Digital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I went to the two authors web pages but the pro-DSD guy threw me for a bit of a loop because he's now changed to being a woman and that made it a lot harder to track her down.

When has that ever stopped us before?

Happy Birthday KG!

I want these amps though I pretty much have no use whatsoever for them. My room is small and my Linn Classik does a fine job.

The return mailing paperwork said "replace transducer" but to me it looks like they replaced the pair. I could be remembering wrong though. In the end "replace transducer" could even mean replace the headphones? Who knows. They look brand new and sound great that's all I care about in the end.

Well I got them on Friday. They replaced the driver. I guess I never messed them up enough to get a wholly new pair but the problem is gone so I'm happy. There is no squeal anymore.