dcolak;144816 Wrote: > Last night I tried using SB3 without the preamp. The noise coming from > SB3 was incredibly loud! It was like, wow, who recorded the sounds of > the beach? :-) > > The amps were NAD C370's (two in a 300W monoblock configuration). > > Connecting M-Audio Revolution 5.1 sound card (PCI card in a PC) > produced no noise. I also tried NAD C541i CD player, same again, no > noise at all. I "tested" them at 100% power of the amps. With SB3, it > was loud "shhhhhhhhhhh" noise (SB3 paused). > > I tried moving cables around, but nothing made a difference. > > Is it just my SB3 that has such a high level of noise or is it normal? > Am I doing something wrong? Should I change the power supply of SB3? It > can't have more noise than a 70USD sound card, can it?
Check out this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28397 Sean Adams talks about the noise floor and has suggested other forums where this is talked about. Apparently from looking at them, a lot of people are using external DACs, thus bypassing the coveted Burr Browns, which are a selling point of the device.....I've looked at my cables and swapped other devices in and out (Panasonic RP-82 for example, with no detectable hiss when paused - not sure if it does something tricky like grounding the audio out when pause is hit....?) I'm not sure whether to invest in a separate DAC, which increases my investment considerably or whether this hiss is curable. I understand that squeezing (pun intended) this much functionality into a small device means some trade-offs, so maybe we just have to live with it. -- peejay After Silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - Aldous Huxley. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7046 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28514 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
