Hi,
No, i have not made such a claim. Someone else has, but not me.
Regards,
Shadders.
Has the Phoenix been listened to yet?
Hi,Ask the manufacturer then!
Hi,Perhaps you should reread your own ramblings then..
Hi,Try "Delusional" then...
It's many of the same folks who are obsessed with their PoV. The world is colourful, not black or white, 0 or 1... Some feel the need to batter others into submission, censure discussion and only see the world as they want it to be. This is true for both extremes we find on the internet / forums / subjectivists & objectivists.I'm still pissed off with know it all farts who in reality know rather less than they think they do but that is just a general observation on life and not targeted at any one person. Happy now?
For example, here is a test of a TEAC UD-501 DAC showing that fed from an ASUS motherboard's USB connector you get rather poor, audible levels of 8 kHz USB micro-frame interference on the analogue output. The test also shows that a $50 USB hub from Kensington can sufficiently remove that problem. But not all hubs do.
1) I would love to know whether anyone decided to spring £6750 for a desktop computer to play through their £300 portable dac based on this article.Here is a link to the measurements for a Melco N10’s. You can see that in the case of the hub powered Chord Mojo and iFi Audio DSD there were large reductions in jitter and noise when using the Melco compared to the reviewers pc. They have tested other servers and the Project Audio endpoint with similar results. DACs with their own power supply seem to be less influenced. Not surprising really; whatever power comes out of the USB socket of a laptop is unlikely to be very clean, so using it to power a DAC is not likely to give the best possible results. Hence my speculating about the design of the Kii Control.
https://www.hifinews.com/content/melco-n10-n10pps10-network-audio-library-lab-report
Some feel the need to batter others into submission, censure discussion and only see the world as they want it to be. This is true for both extremes we find on the internet / forums / subjectivists & objectivists.
What we all need is a balanced perspective on life. Internet zealots run the risk of mental health issues...not because of their forum behaviour - it's not the cause but it is an effect and one that perpetuates their lack of perspective.
Chill, relax and smile when someone has a view you find contrary to your beliefs . Discuss it on occasion but not on every contentious thread....just my tuppenceworth.
Here is a link to the measurements for a Melco N10’s. You can see that in the case of the hub powered Chord Mojo and iFi Audio DSD there were large reductions in jitter and noise when using the Melco compared to the reviewers pc.
https://www.hifinews.com/content/melco-n10-n10pps10-network-audio-library-lab-report
I'd seen an article where the owner used a Kensington hub to good effect. A few pounds I think.Thanks. A quick look makes me think the main effect is due to the DAC doing the rendering being affected by the power supplied via USB not being totally clean. I couldn't see for certain this was J-test, but it looks like it. The problem then being that J-test isn't much like real music data patterns.
In effect, unless I've missed something, simply using a good USB external hub might alter or improve the observed results. FWIW when I've used USB powered DACs I've found that the best results came from using one particular type of mains powered hub. Not more costly than others, just a different design it would seem. This was measured via IQ-test, though.