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i am in the midst of a project to optimize the sound of my new xonar essence stx and prodigy hd-2 sound cards which uses 3 dual 8-dip opamps:
two for I/V conversion after the analog devices d-a (xonar) akm (prodigy), and
one dual balanced to single ended for output
i've ordered a bunch of brown dog adapters which will allow me to do soic to dip-8 either dual-dual, or 2 singles to dual and also some 2 single dip-8 to single dual dip-8s.
here's the questions:
anyone know if the browndogs will even fit in these cards?
do soics sond better than dips?
do pairs of singles outperform duals?
do the metal can to-99-8's sound better than their dip or soic counterparts?
are there specific recommendations for either or both positions, for either or both cards?, e.g., fet inputs for the I/V... bipolars for output, etc...?
i know than nothing replaces pesonal listening, but the essence card has an emi shield, which takes time to remove-reinstall, plus the shutdown-reboot times which makes it really tedious to do the swap-outs.
tia,
Mark
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Topic - brown dog + op-amps questions - mschneider 08:56:13 02/15/09 (0)