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  1. Holy crap! Not one, but TWO usb 3.0 ports! Now I can do it in stereo! I can't wait to connect this to my Akai stereo system. I also have a Sony tape-deck with Mega-Bass that also can play TWO tapes. I just don't understand that given that this is a great product I still need to be pissed on by a skunk?
  2. Range: nano Model: iDildo The chipmunk is called skin because he is a porn star.
  3. The I-fi stuff has glowing reviews. The iUSB to be clear provides clean power and leaves the signal untouched. The iPurifier on the other hand filters power and signal. The claim is a 5db reduction in noise (over what bandwidth is not stated on their product page). On the other hand quoted from the JRE page: "The data line filters pass the up to 480Mbps of USB Type 1 or 2 data while providing rejection greater than 80dB from 1GHz through 6 GHz. The power line filters pass the DC power and return while providing rejection greater than 80dB from 1MHz through 6 GHz." Of course there may be more to this than pure specs, the proof of the pudding lies in the eating... Anybody have experience with the JRE product?
  4. Hi, Does anybody perchance have experience with this > JRE USB 2-1 USB 2.0 High Speed Filtered Interface
  5. Hi Chris. Thanks for your wonderful website and all the effort that goes into it. Could you please elaborate on your use of a pre-amp during the test? Some dacs work well without a pre-amp and some prefer this piece of electronics in the chain. For instance the Alpha Dac works better in my opinion without a pre. How would the Alpha Dac without a pre compare to a DAC2X with pre? Did you prefer the DAC2X with or without a pre? Obviously the added cost of a top notch pre and extra cables then arises and additionally no electronics (if it doesn't compromise gain, spatiality, etc) is always better than some particular electronics in terms of loss of resolution. Could you comment?
  6. I have been looking at this problem for a while now. There really don't seem to be any products on the market capable of isolating high speed 480Mbps usb data lines other than the Icron stuff. There is a company called Silanna that is currently working on high speed digital isolators due for release sometime this year (they couldn't give me an exact timeframe). Other than these possibilities could one not use redriving to condition the signal? Something like this: http://www.hy-line.de/firmengruppe/hy-line-computer-components/hersteller/pericom/usb-superspeed-redriver-signal-conditoners/ Perhaps multiple cable lengths to attenuate noise and multiple redrivers each independently powered with a clean power source? I am not an engineer so please don't flame me. Perhaps somebody could provide some constructive input here?
  7. Please see the following for a better considered view on this subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9562304.stm
  8. O.K. To the 'Harper' character that is the author of the article - I apologise. From now on I resolve to conform and only eat z-grade meat coated in dog sh!t sauce. No sorry, I resolve to live by eating only my own crap. I resolve to love and worship mediocrity and actively destroy my own intelligence so that mediocrity comes to me naturally in every aspect of my life. I resolve to apply that same mediocrity in my workplace so that I can no longer afford anything of value. I resolve to no longer appreciate things of beauty and quality. I resolve to actively promote the cause of Marxist socialism and the z-grade meat that it affords all of us. Finally, I therefore resolve to stop living altogether and bury myself in a grave of dog sh!t. Go F|_|ck yourself Harper, you are a piece of worthless sh!t.
  9. My pet iguana likes listening to mp3's on it's I-guana portable media player while I-fuss about the audiophile stuff. This way we don't get in each other's hair. The rest can go F|_|ck themselves.
  10. For confirmation of the above issues please see the following from the designer of OSS: http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?page_id=22
  11. I found the following on the approach you discuss: http://books.google.co.za/books?id=7eAPUdU3hRUC&pg=PA178&dq=sound+card+dma+buffer&hl=en&sa=X&ei=abI9T9XNCYKK8gO8gd2PCA&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sound%20card%20dma%20buffer&f=false Which includes a sample program doing exactly what you describe. Perhaps you can comment on that portion of the program that determines the current position of the dma controller within the buffer using an ioctl. What does this ioctl exactly involve in its query?
  12. So it seems then that within the limits of being able to timeously refill the playback buffer any hardware, disregarding noise, should sound the same and that the operating system is irrelevant in this regard provided the aforementioned criteria are met? Perhaps somebody else could also corroborate this? Perhaps you could also comment on how this buffer works? Is it a ring buffer, what type of ring buffer and how does the soundcard mark its current position in the buffer?
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