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Audio Hardware / Headphone amp?
Last post by modulusshift -
So I have an old CD player that has captive line out RCA cables in the back (Magnavox AK601, not that it matters), and I have my trusty Sennheiser HD598 headphones. I have two cables for the headphones that end in 3.5mm and 1/4” jacks respectively.

I have until recently been using my AV receiver as the amp between the above, which is a Sony STRDH790, and has a 1/4” jack on the front. The CD player sounds great through my speakers hooked up to that receiver, but I also like to listen via headphones. I was wondering if I could see any benefit from a headphone amp in that case, and upon research heard mention of “high output impedance”, caused by the headphone output on my receiver basically just being some resistors slapped onto the speaker amp to get the power levels right. Combined with my 50ohm headphones, I read this could lead to overemphasized bass (which does seem accurate, it’s fatiguing amounts of bass with some sources and I can’t EQ the receiver in headphone mode I don’t think), and that I should either use higher impedance headphones, like 500-600ohm, or use a different amp.

Is this scientifically supported so far? If so, what’s a reasonable and cost effective way to connect my headphones to this CD player? I’ll be on the lookout for a CD player with a built-in headphone output at the local thrift stores, I suppose, but I do quite like this one, it can play my burned CD-Rs no problem
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Support - (fb2k) / Re: Library rescanning like 5x slower
Last post by Peter -
Sorry, cannot reproduce, installed 2.24.5 portable on NAS share (spinning disk over gigabit link), indexed (added folder as "..\Music"), rebooted PC, installed 2.25 preview on the same in a separate folder, indexed, time was almost exactly the same.
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General - (fb2k) / Re: Hires Internet Radio - Buffering
Last post by mycroft -
The first 192000Hz FLAC stream I tried works fine as long there is enough big buffering in place.
But I used mpv without any special setup, and first time there was not enough buffering but next time it managed to buffer something more. So as Gus. pointed out its all about buffer length (from network point of view not DAC one).
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Development - (fb2k) / Re: Testing Windows ARM64EC components
Last post by Case -
That check is done by actually verifying the OS version. ARM64EC doesn't work on anything older than Windows 11 and I'm not aware of any other reliable way to verify support. Note that it's not same as plain ARM64, it can run normal x64 components through emulation.
I'm pretty sure Wine doesn't handle it and Wine makes a poor component testing platform either way.