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Worked at home and got a lot done..listened to music while doing it and had my son do the snow.

I did not go in today but I am also working on some work as well at home. My work can be done here better than at the office where interruptions are more often than my checking in here.

Battlestar Galactica Bones Eureka Leverage Chuck Life Burn Notice Heroes Lost 24 Psych Numb3rs The Unit Terminator Chronicles Glenn Beck Some BBCA programs Golf Football We always use the DVR so we can pass the commercials.

I got this watch a couple of weeks ago: Suunto T6c

Congrats on your new HD800. For myself I am more of the Ultrasone person, so I pre-ordered the UE8 for my portable possibly replacing my ESW10JPN. My wife told me not to sell my 10s so I will probably keep them. She thinks they are very collectible much like my Yamamoto HA-02. I know I am going to take some mouth about my choice but this is my preference in headphones.

As a transportable music server and as a portable exercise lab using my new PC pod and Suunto heart rate monitor.

Mine works well as a transport using a Passport 320 gig hard drive. I have ASIO4ALL loaded as well.

Bottom line is that I can tell a distinct difference between all three settings but not as much between the Crystal and Narrow settings. If all did ASCR the same way by creating intermediate interpolations as opposed to adding zeros for oversampling, I would think this would not be as clear.

It would seem that the ASRC chip could still be active and could be doing both non-integer and integer oversampling when needed. So it would appear to be active all the time. It could be that for a signal set to a common frequency that the ASRC chip is set to do integer multiples and only during the Wide would it do non-integer oversampling. This is conjecture on my part.

So I am getting a bit mixed up here maybe, but I was attempting to refer to what Dan Lavry posted in one of his threads on his forum and I have captured it in a pdf. I copied Dan's words below. My take from reading this is that the AD1896 is doing the work of the ASRC while it would appear that the AD1955 does SCR without having to use the ASRC (non-integer) feed from the AD1896. At least that is what I am getting from reading this. The spec of the AD1955 shows that it upsamples using SCR (integer). If anyone is interested I can email the pdf of this thread. For myself this is the best single explanation of what Dan Lavry has asserted in what he has done with the DA10 using the Crystal, Narrow and Wide settings. This post was a few months after the initial changes that have been noted were done I think. The DA10 was first introduced around Jan. 2006. I have had one since Feb. 2006 and got my second one last year. They sound the same to me. Posted Sept 6, 2006 and the text in bold and underlined is my highlighting. "The DA itself is always operating in an up sampled mode which is synchronous. This is needed because it allows a real world design of an anti imaging filter. Prior to the concept of up sampling, the analog anti imaging filters were made of a lot of parts, but never enough to yield a reasonable performance. It would take dozens of opamps and precision resistors and caps to have the proper filtering, and while doing so, other things fall apart...Also, there is another reason for up sampling: a DA with no up sampling has very non flat amplitude vs. frequency response. In theory, a DA is perfect, because the samples are

Yes, I agree that a tube buffer whether a distinct amp or just a buffer setup would do you well even if you placed it between your Lite and the headphone. The TTVJ Millet Hybrid that I have does well with it.

The wide uses ASRC like the benchmark. The narrow and crystal uses SCR. The DA10 has two DAC chips inside it for different settings, the AD1955 (integer multiple) and AD1896 (non-integer multiple). It up-samples everything. Just that when going ASCR it does the non-integer upsampling and when doing SCR it does interger upsampling.

Your -1 is negated by having the included XLR to RCA adapters from the write-up. Wonder if he will take trade-ins?

I don't know about you but just last week I ordered a Pico Amp/Dac.

Happy Birthday and have a great year.

I know I have always enjoyed the Lavry Headamp's performance more than many others give it credit as well as it's Dac. Note I own two of them and am waiting your own release of your DAC to get a third excellent source.

To bad they did not get Justin to do the amp for them.

I have to agree that the O2's are dark compared with the 404s. But that darkness is more realistic in sound than otherwise for most headphones. I have not heard the other versions of the Omega other than my MkIIs but these to me have a very good balance. So maybe it is that I don't know real balance, but this is the best I am aware of for now and probably forever using a KGSS with Blackgates for an amp.

This sounds a little like the patent of David Berning and his *-ZOTL designs. I had one of his amps for a while and it is real nice. What his circuit does is isolate the speaker from the amp such that it the amp sees a constant impedance of about 4K. This results in very high damping factors.

I started mine last Feb after quadruple-bypass surgery. Maybe your ahead of the game and don't realized it, at least I hope you are. Good luck. I have lost over 60 pounds since Feb 08 and need to loose an additional 20-30 lbs from where I am today.

Davidson and Davis; Heartstrings Hearth of the Celts; songs of love Joshua Bell; Romance and Violins

Have a great birthday.........Reks

Happy Birthday guys...

Have a brand new year everyone and may all your headphone delights come true.

I think Headroom's new charts are going to be very much discussed since their AT measurements sure don't reflect the sound that I hear.