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Offline donunus

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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 01:03:19 PM »
Quote from: chaosallied on January 24, 2012, 11:01:42 AM
just acquired some 24bit/192khz recordings and played it through the D3 and the crossroads edge amp... i noticed that in a couple of sample tracks, in several parts of the them, the sound disappears or distorted... is it an issue of the DAC or the dynamics cannot be handled by the amp?

is this some sort of clipping?

I also have problems playing back 24/192. It skips a lot. I wonder if FiiO has a dedicated ASIO software for this or something to cure this problem. Its not a big deal for me though since I mostly play 16/44 files anyway.
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 01:47:08 PM »
i was just curious about those hi-res files, 24/96 files have no problems though...
so it's the DAC then, thought i had an alibi to justify buying a new amp haha
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Re: Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 02:44:30 PM »
Quote from: donunus on January 24, 2012, 01:03:19 PM
I also have problems playing back 24/192. It skips a lot. I wonder if FiiO has a dedicated ASIO software for this or something to cure this problem. Its not a big deal for me though since I mostly play 16/44 files anyway.

same thing happened to me before and got it replaced because it's one of the bad batch

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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 02:53:04 PM »
That sucks that mine is one from a bad batch. Its been doing fine with the standard music files though.
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Re: Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 03:09:13 PM »
Quote from: x_walkman on January 24, 2012, 02:44:30 PM
same thing happened to me before and got it replaced because it's one of the bad batch

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hmmm i might try to get mine replaced then... thanks for the info
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2012, 03:14:10 PM »
Oh wait, sorry guys I LOL I got confused. Its my E10 that skips with 24/192. I don't think I've tried 24/192 with my D3 yet.
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #21 on: January 24, 2012, 03:18:38 PM »
i don't know if that's a better news though haha
pls try your D3 to confirm  ;D
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #22 on: January 24, 2012, 03:25:41 PM »
The D3 is in another room. Its not near my computer setup so I can't really confirm the 24/192 thing at the moment. On the DVD player, it can't be really confirmed either because I'm not sure if my transport can output 24/192. I think my old DVD player only goes up to 24/96... not really sure how it works in outputting data whether it downsamples or keeps data as is before coming out of the digital interface.
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #23 on: January 24, 2012, 09:01:42 PM »
I thought the conversion n sampling is only done at the DAC whereas the transport is just merely sending out signals?

Anyway, I m still waiting for my shipment arrival.
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2012, 04:47:05 AM »
The transport sometimes controls whether to output high res or to convert to 16 bit pcm before going to a dac I think. Just like you can set a media player on a PC to output at a certain bit depth before the data goes to the dac.
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2012, 07:50:17 PM »
Would it be safe to assume that as a standalone DAC the D3 would outperform most if not all standalone DACs sub $100?
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2012, 08:51:41 PM »
not meant to hijack the D3 thread BUT just wanna say that the FiiO D5 USB DAC is compatible with nokia N8 via USB OTG  ;D ;D
not as elegant as the E7 but is it good enough... D5 + N8 is super portable  ;D
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Re: FiiO D3 DAC
« Reply #27 on: February 07, 2012, 10:46:24 PM »
confirmed, my D3 has problems with 24/192 decoding... same file, same toslink cable, my matrix mini-i has no problems in decoding...
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