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saratoga:
--- Quote from: Lornecherry on February 08, 2009, 03:56:03 PM ---First, let me state that I'm not trying to invade your space with an audiophile nose-in-the-air attitude. $1500 is certainly not excessive with respect to a music server (with a DAC and headphone amp (which is what the Wadia system actually is.) What it is not, is a glorified ipod doc with a Wadia nameplate. And the Wadia doc is not $1500 ...it's $379 ...the matching DAC and built-in Ray Samuels headphone amp is $1500.
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With all due respect, if you pay that much for a DAC, you're probably being ripped off. High quality 24 bit DACs in this frequency range cost dollars, not hundreds of dollars. Delivering a few mAs worth of current at low frequencies with 100dB of SNR is not a particularly expensive proposition given modern IC costs.
--- Quote from: Lornecherry on February 08, 2009, 03:56:03 PM ---Again, I'm sorry if I ruffled a few feathers ... I'm simply questing for the best sound possible, as I know the capabilities of portable music are just beginning to be realized with devices such as the Wadia, the iMod and the various headphone amps that are becoming quite popular. - Lorne
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I don't think you've ruffled any feathers, and I'd certainly welcome support for a device like this if someone provided the code. Its just amusing that people buy junk like this, thats all.
For kicks though, if you've got one these things, you should run RMAA on it and see just how well it works.
ElEsido:
Excuse my question, if this has already been mentioned i didn't find the relevant post.
What quality is being put through optical out of a rockboxed iriver H1xx when you play a 24/96 or a 24/192 lossless file?
Thanks
ElEsido
nc8000:
--- Quote from: ElEsido on February 19, 2009, 03:17:27 AM ---Excuse my question, if this has already been mentioned i didn't find the relevant post.
What quality is being put through optical out of a rockboxed iriver H1xx when you play a 24/96 or a 24/192 lossless file?
Thanks
ElEsido
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I would also love to know the answer to this as I have tried to download som 24/192 flac files from Linn Records and they play fine in RockBox on the H140 but what is actually output on the optical out, 16/44 or full 24/192 or something else ?
This is feeding the optical in on the iBasso D1 and soon iBasso D10 dac/heaphone amp combos.
Febs:
Read the second post of this thread.
ElEsido:
The second post of this thread talks about "the output" and "all current targets [note: I believe this means the players?] truncate to 16 bits at the output" So please help me understand if the following is correct:
File --> Internal DAC of the Player --> Internal Amp of the Player
\
--> Optical Out SPDIF --> External DAC --> External Amp
What Rockbox sends to either the internal DAC or the Optical Out is a 16bit signal which is in any case resampled to 44100? Or is a higher bitrate/frequency signal sent to Optical out while the internal dacs of the targets cut it down to 16bit?
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