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    Multibit DAC?

    The short version is, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Raw RMS power doesn't matter for electrostatic headphones. If you don't have the right pin-out and the correct bias voltage, then everything else is moot. They just won't work. And running either Focal's Utopia, or the...
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    Multibit DAC?

    You need a very specific amplifier for electrostatic headphones. You CANNOT run them off a regular headphone amplifier, no matter how powerful, and if you want to use a speaker-amplifier you still need a "Energizer" in the mix. It's not about "power" (I*V) but about having a) the proper...
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    Multibit DAC?

    No, it's purely about accurate reproduction. No additional capabilities at all (at least not that are in anyway attributable to the architecture of the DAC). Leave the Magni 2 where it is. The Modi Multi-bit is a useful, and relatively easily audible improvement over the D/S versions of the...
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    TOSLINK vs USB for DAC

    I can certainly understand that. However, on Windows you're going to need a driver, at least, regardless of whether you use Toslink or USB-Audio 2.0 connections since Microsoft still doesn't support USB-Audio 2.0 out of the box. If Windows vendors are still bundling tons of crap in their...
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    TOSLINK vs USB for DAC

    USB Audio (Isochronous mode, i.e. what you're using with a USBA 2.0 Async connection) does not do data-retransmission. The power lines on a USB port from a typical PC are often very noisy and that noise can get injected into the circuits of the DAC. VERY few DACs, especially entry level stuff...
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    Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats

    I'm not saying streaming is bad at all; in fact I subscribe to TIDAL, Spotify, Apple Music and Prime. I use those services extensively for listening at the office, finding new music, and for various parties and functions at my home so that there is always suitable music available. Also, they...
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    Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats

    They don't. In fact none of the vendors that offer high-resolution downloads use DRM. Which is exactly my point - you couldn't buy a DRM-encumbered file if you tried. DRM on purchased music is done (outside SACD) - it's been over for years, both for lossy iTunes/Amazon Music stuff AND for...
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    Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats

    Its losslessly compressed, however. So once you unpack it, the data is the same as the original file. Not the case with MP3 etc. Though I'm sure you know this.
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    Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats

    I'm curious as to where one would go today to buy a DRM-encumbered music-file that wasn't also legally available, for the same price, as a DRM-free file. You know, unless you're buying your music on SACD. But as downloads? No idea who's selling in an non-DRM format anymore - I think you'd...
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    Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats

    Except what the rumors are talking about is them offering high-resolution streaming (24/96 or higher). Everything else is extrapolation of what that might mean (for no benefit, so there's no logical reason to do it). All streaming music services are DRM-encumbered anyway, so if Apple use a...
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    Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats

    Songs purchased from iTunes have no DRM. They did in the beginning, but it's been years since Apple removed that across the board. Apple were the ones primarily responsible for DROPPING DRM on digitally purchased music. Even high-resolution files, rather limited though the section...
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    Microsoft Announces Surface Book

    I'd go for a Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book (I hate the name) ... but for two things: 1. I'm long since done with the nonsense that is managing a Windows machine properly for personal use. 2. I prefer my hardware not to ship requiring the "Heatlesjizz Removal Kit". I remember around the launch...
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    Microsoft Announces Surface Book

    Radically different? It has a touch-screen and the keyboard comes off. Apple made touch-screen devices workable long before Microsoft (Windows Mobile was only usable with a stylus, even if the screen could recognize finger input, and TabletPC only recognizes pens on an active digitizer - touch...
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    Tech Firms Holding $2.1 Trillion Overseas To Avoid Taxes

    No profit-making corporation in the US (or anywhere else for that matter) pays any tax at all. Their customers cover all of it. 100% If you think, even for a moment, than even a cent/penny of what a "corporation pays" in tax is coming out of anyone's wallet but yours then you are...
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    Amazon Banning Sale Of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

    Seems a bit daft. With there being an iPhone/iPad app for Amazon Prime Video, unless Apple are blocking such an app for the new Apple TV, I'm not sure what the problem is. The coding delta for tvOS is almost non-existent. As much as I use my Prime subscription, and as much money as I spend...
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