Comments on Profile Post by Cspirou

Ha-ha they have to advertise.

But no really they have banners up? Damn.

Still, they also sell Audio-GD, so I guess it goes about even.

@Lyander

https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/diy-dac/khadas-tone-board-generic-edition-es9038q2m-dac-module-usb-xmos-u208-spdif-32bit-768khz-dsd256-p-13062.html

.... Oh. Eww.

Hang on, @Lyander... it has "Extremely intuitive integration." That can't be bad.

On the other hand... Aim the bottom-firing sub at it.

HAHAHAHA sub is rear-facing and ready.

This sentence can be taken WILDLY out of context

I took a quick look. A-weighting (the great liar) has been applied. Take a close look at the second and third FFT. That is one way to make mains noise disappear from view and measurements. I call bullshit.

That board has been hailed as the "great new hope", if I remember correctly JDSLabs also tested it and was not convinced.

@atomicbob - ugh. I've been avoiding visiting ASR but I might have to do it again just to check. Is anyone doing credible measurements there that isn't Amir? There's other products on Audiophonics with the ASR stamp too.

It's a marketing tool for them. They also have Darko /Beekhuizen on there which is the polar opposite of ASR.

@Cspirou - I looked at graphs on the link you provided. Didn't need to visit questionable site. Have a Khadas on the way and will put into the measurement queue. Maybe a side-by-side comparison with Matrix XSP which is also in the queue.

My subtle manipulation worked!

Preliminary measurements indicate reasonably good performance for the price, but nothing that is going to make Matrix XSP lose any sleep.

Would it be on par with DACs in that price range, comparable with Modi 3, ect or is is a bright hot mess?

Not enough listening time to make useful comments, yet. Trying to get through a slog of measurements and then spend decent amount of time listening.