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| Author: | brombo [ January 27th, 2022, 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | New Home System for Computer Work Area |
Attachment: Computer Audio 1.jpg [ 260.35 KiB | Viewed 35443 times ] Emotiva T2+ speakers Emotiva BasX A2 stereo amp Passive volume control using Alps dual pot Emotiva Big Ego+ stereo dac Home assembled computer (Ubuntu 20.04) using Kodi for music server My question is has anyone tried the Emotiva Big Ego+ stereo dac and if so what do they think about it. To me it sounds quite good and it is under $100. |
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| Author: | tomp [ January 30th, 2022, 3:51 pm ] | |||
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area | |||
Here is what I listen to for background music when working on my laptop. I come out of the laptop via USB to a Khadas Tone Board DAC and then to a Kinter 15W/channel class D amp to a pair of Infinity Primus 150 speakers.
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| Author: | mix4fix [ February 5th, 2022, 12:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
tomp wrote: Here is what I listen to for background music when working on my laptop. I come out of the laptop via USB to a Khadas Tone Board DAC and then to a Kinter 15W/channel class D amp to a pair of Infinity Primus 150 speakers. I have a similar version of that amplifier. Never really used it. How bad are they? |
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| Author: | tomp [ February 5th, 2022, 8:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
Not bad at all. Certainly will not replace my main system but for the intended purpose quite good. |
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| Author: | brombo [ February 5th, 2022, 8:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
Did you ever measure the DC offset on the tripath amplifier? |
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| Author: | tomp [ February 5th, 2022, 9:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
Just measured it. 69mv in left channel, 21mv in right channel. No problem. |
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| Author: | mix4fix [ February 5th, 2022, 3:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
tomp wrote: Just measured it. 69mv in left channel, 21mv in right channel. No problem. Wouldn't that cause problems? |
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| Author: | tomp [ February 5th, 2022, 4:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
That represents less than one milliwatt dissipation on each channel and the amount of offset from the cone is probably extremely small. So no problem. |
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| Author: | mix4fix [ May 28th, 2023, 1:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
brombo wrote: Attachment: Computer Audio 1.jpg I have installed a new audio system for my test bed computer so I can listen to music while programming and writing. The system except for the home assembled computer is almost all Emotiva. It consists of Emotiva T2+ speakers Emotiva BasX A2 stereo amp Passive volume control using Alps dual pot Emotiva Big Ego+ stereo dac Home assembled computer (Ubuntu 20.04) using Kodi for music server My question is has anyone tried the Emotiva Big Ego+ stereo dac and if so what do they think about it. To me it sounds quite good and it is under $100. Can you show how Kodi operates as a music server? |
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| Author: | brombo [ May 28th, 2023, 4:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Home System for Computer Work Area |
I am not quite sure what you mean. All my audio and video files are on my main computer (I have about 44TB capacity, I haven't checked how much I am using). I access them via an SMB network (note that all the machines run Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04). The main reason I use kodi is that I watch cable TV on a HDHomerun Prime device and kodi has a very nice addon for program selection and recording - https://www.amazon.com/SiliconDust-HDHo ... B004HKIB6E As much live TV as I am currently watching (about the only thing I watch live these days is PBS) I am thinking about doing away with live TV altogether. One other aspect of Kodi (undocumented and only works in linux) is that if I have makemkv installed I can play commercial blu ray disks from Kodi. I can also play CD's directly on Kodi. I am using Ruby Rip to rip my CD's. I don't download media info for Kodi I only look directly at the file folders with Kodi to select what I want to watch or listen to (If you let it Kodi will download media meta-data). The audio from Kodi sounds fine to me but I have never claimed to have golden ears. Also since I posted the picture I am using an Emotiva BasX PT1 preamp. It is all analog except for the DAC on the digital inputs (Spdif, TOSlink, WiFi). For my compute audio I use the optical (TOSlink) input. For my turntable it has a phono (MM/MC) input. |
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