I think Thor means don't use SMD version of OS-CON. Use the regular one with leads. SMD is harder to soldering at home.

USB-C PD is good enough? Is it for Zen Can Signature only (as it has internal switiching power supply)? For Zen DAC, I bet LPS is still preferred over USB-C PD. Correct?

Cool, thanks for your review. Just wondering did you always power your Zen DAC with USB? If yes, I'd suggest you can try the dedicated 5V regulated LPS for your Zen DAC. I bet you would love the sound more with the 5V power supply.

There are a lot of mis-leading information about Hi-Res or Upsampling music. One of the benefits of Hi-Res or Upsampled music (e.g. 384k/32bit, or even 768/32) is to better reconstruct audio signal (yes frequency under 22kHz). Sampling theory said 44kHz sampling is good enough to reproduce...

Sorry for my ignorance, what is dual chamber EI core transformers and "Y" capacitor? p.s.: The timing of my replies may be a bit odd as I am put under speech control.

IMO, I see it this way (I coud be wrong though): 1: Most of modern devices have on-board circuity to reduce noise from a power supply but it is not perfect. (Let's say it reduce noise by x%) 2: Supercapacitor bank can condition the power to eliminate most of the noise but again not perfect. I...

Thanks, I only have the Zen DAC v2.

Does it mean that the following article is talking BS? Can you spot the difference? Classic waveforms versus modern digital emulation | MusicRadar i.e. In the article they shows different waves forms (sawtooth and square) created by Audacity. As the replies here said a computer (or h/w digital...

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Some one told me that VST is band-limited. Is it true? i.e. if I have an VST plug-in that generates a perfect square wave, VST would somehow band limit the output to half of the sampling rate so that the ouput would not be a perfect square wave anymore. Is it true?

All the OS-CONs are for power supplies, using 560uF (instead of 460uF) is ok. I would try 1000uF if I knew earlier it could be larger. Thor mentioned (as shown below) that we can try larger values (uF) for C411. It should be similar for C101, C201, C321, and C410 For C507,C508, I think we...

Have a look of the following quotes. It is interesting, sometimes 1.000 are considered same as 1.001. Sometimes, 1.000000000000000 is considered different from 1.000000000000001 :face_palm: :cherries:

Hmm.. having a second thought isn't that the Monty's version of "sampling theory" claim "[band-limited] analog signal can be reconstructed losslessly, smoothly, and with the exact timing of the original analog signal"? Now, you are saying there are more limitations as band-limited "square...

Wonderful, thanks for your reply. :thumbsup: I'll play around these and see if I have a better way to present the information I wanted to show earlier.

If I understand your statement correctly, it means digital audio and home audio systems are not designed for electronic musics (which use a lot of signal generators, aka synthesizer)? In other words, based on your statement, electronic music live in the analog domain but not in digital...