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LOL, well no, having a wrong midrange is more like discovering the "beautiful, attractive, intelligent, good-hearted, understanding, compatible girl" has a 10" dick under her pants.

Sounds quite fine here Fingers crossed for the PCBs working as expected.

Forget about studio monitoring and what they consider flat and their corrections. If the DT48E really measure flat -which I still have yet to see- for research purposes, they should be +/- 1dB within the 20-20000 range. The DT-48A, for audiometric purposes, are that flat in the 125-12000 range. Distortion depends on SPL when speaking about drivers. I suppose that the 0.9% figure is at the maximum rated output of 105 dBSPL. Most manufacturers wisely hide that data and only provide distortion figures at 90 or 95dB. Again seeing some measurements of distortion products and levels at different SPL for the DT48E is necessary to judge them based solely on figures.

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Did you find any frequency response plot? Their flat response is the only reason they're the standard for clinical research. I don't think it's their comfort or noise isolation Distortion is important when you're pushing them to very high SPL, which aren't very common in research. I suppose they won't do bad -not worse than any other dynamic- at normal SPLs. I haven't listened to them. I used the DT48A plugged into a clinical audiometer, so I can't speak about their performance with music I guess they'll do as good -or bad- as any flat measuring monitor.

Yep, it includes a plot where you can estimate the dBu or Volts (RMS and p-p) the DAC outputs at every step on balanced and SE operation. This allows setting it up to match any other source you're using.

Apart from the reasons Smeggy pointed, also because they've become the reference for psychoacoustic and clinical research studies, then are considered "medical" gear which is always expensive. It's very likely that those are expensive to produce for the quality control. I've never seen measurements of them, but they're supposed to give as a flat response as it's possible, with very low distortion.

Also Lavry DA-11 has USB, Toslink, AES/EBU and SPDIF coaxial inputs, with regulated balanced output, but it's not a preamp itself. No analogue inputs. It sounds quite well. I got mine a week ago and it's better than I expected.

Hey, happy Birthday mate

Happy B-day Doc!

Annie Lennox - Medusa [1995] Before that one, was listening to Holly Cole Trio - Don't smoke in bed [1993] I'm watching a football (soccer for you americans) match of the Spanish Premier League. Amazing match btw

I see... I assumed that taking the drive off the sinks could make it fit into a laptop. A 10000rpm HDD would improve a lot any laptop performance.

That thing fits into a laptop?

Same here. On the PSU isn't that bad, but the screen on the output unit... I suppose you can order it without that.

No Macs here I wanted to be able to play the HR files from the laptop on the main rig, and I thought the DA-11 is a better solution to play them without loss, than getting a USB soundcard to feed the Bidat, which the highest that can do IIRC is just 20/48. The laptop has no digital out We'll see, it's possible the Bidat sounds still better than the Lavry if fed with downsampled files from the HR ones.

Mate, if you can't get it from anywhere else or they don't ship to USA, just say, I can order the items myself and send them to you

Lavry DA-11. It's true, it can do 24/88 over USB and needs no drivers.

Not myself. Maybe Picaudio has, I'll tell him to come by

Various Artists - Krautrock sampler

BSO Chamber players - Mozart Chamber music for winds and strings Got it as aiff 24/88.2 download. Quite good, and that coming from someone who doesn't like very much Mozart...

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Again? OMG What do you do to the PSU's? Do you put them on a geyser and then drop them on the snow? Cryoing doesn't work that way

Glad of being helpful. Here's another suggestion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4G-8M_jutk Equally down tempo, easily danceable... the tune is a Prince's composition. Another tune that comes to mind, which is a nice one and should be easy to dance to is Lately by Stevie Wonder. However the lyrics are a bit sad: To end this bunch of suggestions, one tune titled "Alma de blues" (Blues soul) by a Spanish group named "Presuntos implicados", one of my favorite Spanish bands. Maybe a bit long. It has the advantage that few people will understand the words , but for sure will be quite unheard there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxf6Xd75yUo Don't know how it will come out, just in case: Bangles - Eternal flame. Quite low tempo, nice tune... Could fit

I'm very glad for your dad and you. It's nice making people happy