I don't have Maybank account unfortunately

Good idea, but since I bypass the muting on primary, its not fair that the other channel still have it. I'm planning to remove opamp on other channel leaving clean supply to front channel

Those muting tranny is different, if you have the pinouts let me know

Alright thanks for the info, currently I have no intention of doing so

Weird, the LME49720 becomes more and more listenable now, Katie Melua never sounded this good before I don't think I need to change the opamp again if this continue

ROFL I don't believe burn in on transistor though. No the opamp is new one, I ditched the old one. I never use a used opamp unless its socketed

I guess so, makes me think its a waste to buy new opamp anyway. But at least I have some backup since my SOIC opamp has run out

Very weird, when at night LME49720 sounds good, while at day it was too sparkly to my tastes

Hmm....this thread is dead again....still waiting for the opamp, but in the meantime I order yet another opamp This one is ultra secret opamp Some say....this one is perfectly balanced sound signature, some say its too veiled. All in all, they all agree it have bass, a big one

Now my card acting weird, right channel all of the sudden go totally silent. I check for continuity but everything is fine but when I run it there is no sound at all from right channel

No, still no sound

But I found the culprit, a small SMD resistor is loose, removed it and I directly connect to output without opamp with the wire. Surprisingly it sings well, and no sign of excessive DC offset. Very weird I hope it stays that way

Gosh, I though this card is a gonner for sure

Yup, and this time it worked well. No sign of excessive DC offset, I measure it it exactly the same as with opamp, around 190mV

Quite a lot actually, maybe up to -9 to -12dB from with opamp

Hmm, maybe....anyway I need to use the decoupling caps, the DC offset is too much. Found some good quality capacitor that is small enough I still waiting for my opamp to arrive so I leave the space bare first ready for new one

You still need an amp if you buy the Wharfedale, only the AegoM have internal amp

ROFL, no, this one won't die. Still sing beautifully

Anyhow, how do you know it injured severely? I didn't post any pics

Anyone using Windows XP change to the new beta? I don't try it, never bother since the current one just fine with me

Is there anything we can discuss other than modding? How about games? X-Fi is built from ground up for gaming, so we better talk its gaming performance. All the game I tested give very good result, even the game that doesn't support EAX like Crysis. On the game that supports it, its just amazing. Especially in F.E.A.R, even when enemy sneak up on me, I can listen to them before I can see them. Environment, ambient, different material sounds great too

Oh you are one of the people who get motion sickness in FPS. Luckily I don't. Only game that gives me a little headache is Medal of Honor: Airborne. The motion blur and weapon sway makes me a bit dizzy, but only for a few minutes

I wanted to try DIRT but I heard it got lots of bugs because its a port from console, same like SC:DA

I see...I've played CMR before, but I don't remember which one I actually play With a steering wheel I get very far in the game, with just a keyboard it went nowhere

With EAX Advance HD, even GTA: San Andreas sounds great. Before this when I uses SB Live!, whenever there is rain, the sound will drop and eventually one by one the sound from environment gone leaving only the radio in car functioning With X-Fi, no such problem existed, and never in my life hearing so much sound at one time, even in rain, I can hear tire screech, plus people honking at me for driving like mad and sound of wind and ambient too at the same time

With opamp everything is just in-your-face kind of experience, not the kinda thing that I like especially fo music listening, the soundstaging is very wide without opamp.

For me whet you describe is night and day, because you can clearly hear the difference, but well, one man's meat is another's poison. What speaker did you use with the X-Fi?

Nice find, coolkwc. But internal DAC is great for me

All my opamp has arrived today, tested it on other channel and do A/B test, I don't like them. I prefer no opamp

I have 9 opamp now, 5 of them are high quality. I don't know what to do with them. Don't ask me any because they not for sale

What I do now? Remove all the opamp and all the capacitor on opamp supply because its unneeded

EDIT: Forget to add, I'll get Sanyo OS-CON 10uF 10V and 47uF Blackgate NX for free soon

This post has been edited by Najmods: Jun 20 2008, 07:10 PM

Oh, I guess I tell them anyway. The opamp I buy is LME49723 (super secret), slightly worser version of LME49720. Sounds rougher, maybe not burn in, but it still quite the same as LME49720. The other one is AD8066 (ultra secret), it was fast, and it was rather flat, I quite like it though, but I prefer laid back signature, warmth and very wide soundstage of no opamp because my system is quite forward

Its only beneficial who uses Vista, if you using XP better stick with the older official one since there is no major upgrade from it. From what I read from various forum, yes, it is buggy