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May I suggest buying at least M-Audio AV42? If not even JBL LSR305 or KRK rokit 5? Forget about the soundcard. Anything will do. Get the best speakers you can.

Quick question. Is it fully necessary to have a dac in a metal enclosure? I'll put it in a plastic one and see it it's good enough first, just asking if someone has any experience with this.

For some reason driver for the original STX is gone from ASUS website. I'm forced to use a diy driver, wtf.

Well it might become one, why not. It's a good idea. Someone can rename this thread and there we go. Or make a new one for it.

yeap thanks

Are those TAD drivers? They sound amazingly good... Also, what's the big box next to Yggdrasil?

I would maybe not listen to headfi's advice without a big nonsense filter. A nice example: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/some-hot-science-from-synergistic-research.741043/page-2 It's ok to read but be aware that people in charge there mostly hate proper science, so yeah..

Play some pink noise while you fiddle with eq. You will know what sounds best. Pink noise has equal energy in all octaves, so properly equalized headphones (for an individual) will have the smoothest sounding, least offensive pink noise. Try it.

Hd 600 is an amazing headphone. Lightweight, hlits harman curve very well, generally though of as one of the, if not the best headphone ever. I'm not sure of any audio technica equivalents. Not that they don't make some good gear, they do, but in regards to comfort and clarity, in my personal experience nothing they make comes close to hd600. Dt880 is even more comfy than hd600. Good suggestion. It's a bit more linearly distirted but sounds quite good in general.

Measurments : no smoothing (1/12 on rta), far field gated to 170 Hz, rest are nearfields - they align with far field perfectly from 150 -300 Hz https://imgur.com/a/Ecine I boosted bass up 5-10 db on main profile (got Harman curve on my rta), but have a second profile with flatter bass also.

I don't, I've posted a bit around here and there. Also, thanks If you need help with anything, just ask While I was learning about these things I asked on all the forums (headfi, reddit, eevblog, diyaudio, ..., including this one? - not sure though) Nobody responded Yeah well sorry about that.. didn't know those were a thing. I'm not what you'd call a regular, but I kinda love this community and Linus and guys so I come here now and then. Local audiophiles are all about the "sonic changes" the colors of your cables make

Most probable cause - arc somewhere on the mobo. A short. Processor could be dead too, but they're tougher to kill than mobos, at least in my oppinion. Never had a dead proc, had many dead boards. What exactly went down on the board is hard to say. CMOS battery, I don't think so.

That would be good to try too. It's probably a dead mobo, though.

If you can't even turn it on, and it's not the case of dirty contacts or something like that, and if the headers are connected probably from case to mobo, it's probably a dead motherboard. Might be a broken button too, try connecting just the mobo and the PSU and powering it on by shorting the pins on the mobo.

Yep a paperclip works Just check online to see which pin it actually is on that large mobo connector, it should be the same for all psu's so just cause yours is all black, the pin should be in it's proper place anyway, it won't move anywhere. Find the green one, it should be a "signal" or "start" pin something along these lines, it's not a voltage pin, and black pins are ground or zero, any one will work.

I thought that too. But what's really weird is that both cables in solo version work just fine. The ONLY explanation I can find is that corsair's inner cable wiring is weird and connecting it with 2 cables messes something up. No idea. Doubt it. What would happen is that the cable would overheat (if it's not thick enough) as it's delivering more power now. To actually limit power to the gpu it'd need to have some resistance in it which, of course, it does, but it's negligible. Also said resistance might, depending on the cards input impedance, cause a voltage drop, making the card even more unstable

Both were connected to PCIe, always. The cables are: modular connector for PCIe, and both 6+2 and 6 on the other side.

Both. One cable has both 8 and 6 pins connectors. Its just that before, I used 2 such cables, one for 6, and one for 8. Now I use 1 cable for both 8 and 6. And it works.

both.

Why would they bother placing both connectors there then. It doesn't add up.

I gave it both the 8pin and 6 pin power, on 2 cables from ax1200i, and it was unstable. I gave it power from one cable to both connectors, and it's stable. How. Why. Cables are fine. It makes no sense.

So recently I had a ton of problems with my gtx 1080, the screen would go black and fans ramp up, the OS would continue to work under it. In games, or in idle, sometimes it wouldn't even boot into windows. Reliability history always said it's a driver problem. On linux, the crashes were a lot rarer, and windows safe mode crashed only once. This first started happening couple months ago, but in the last month it was so often that it made the PC unusable. Without the graphics card, system was stable. Ram was good. So there were only a couple of options. 1) Driver issues I tried everything, from clean OS installs, ddu + a shit ton of older drivers, leaving only windows drivers, etc- it was sorta stable on the basic driver but even that would occasionally crash. 2) GTX 1080 was broken - I RMA'd the card. They stress tested it for 2 days, nothing. 3) Dust - I kept it as clean as it came from the box. 0 dust. 4) PSU - It's basically a new ax1200i PSU which I bought couple of years ago but never used until now. I mean, it could be it, but srsly.. 5) Cables - the connection indicators for gtx 1080 cables were always white- meaning connected and powered. I connected the card and the PSU with 2 cables, one for the 6 pin, and one for 8 pin. I didn't change anything. This setup was stable until some windows updates, or so I thought. But it happens in other OS'es too, so .. What ended up fixing it, was connecting the PSU and GTX with only one cable. Why? I though, maybe the PSU has more than one voltage rails and it causes instabilities. Nope, 1 rail. How I noticed it: If you connect the 1080 (asus strix 08C) in the PCI slot only, indicators (2 of them) are red. Originally I thought if you connect voltage to them, they go white, but no! Just if you connect the cable to them, they go white. But! If you connect, for example, the fractal edison modular cable to the card only, to the 8 pin only, it's white. To the 6 pin only, it's white. If you do the same with corsair's cables, 8 pin only, white. 6 pin only, RED! FAULTY CABLE!!!!! or not.. both the corsair cables that I had did it. If you connect 2 corsait cables to gtx only, no psu, 8 pin is white, 6 pin is red, edison cables, both connectors white. If you connect only 1 corsair cable to both 8 and 6 pins, both white. All of this without power from PSU. If they are connected to PSU, both the 6 and 8 pins will go white anyway. Also, the eddison and ax1200i psu have different modular cables, wires are connected differently, and psu side connectors are different. What is going on. Why does it work on one cable, and not on 2 cables? It makes no sense really. And It's not like the connectors are loose or anything like that, really.

Not sure how to do it without virtualization. Virtualbox is proably easiest. Make a small linux vm.