Well, sadly what it does is total snake oil. It's practically vastly overpriced, vastly big and vastly ugly CD reader drive, that probably can't even read a data disk.
This is just an USB sound card with some nice features. It is not by any chance snake oil. It takes the noise out because only the digital sound stream goes over the USB, and the D/A conversion takes place without as much interference as inside the computer going through all the mobo circuitry.
I have been looking at something like this for some time, it is nice. I have been using the similar Sondigo Callisto, which is great, but it doesn't have Dolby Headphone. Hopefully this one does.
By the way, if you have super-sensitive earphones like the Shure E500's or SE530 (the same with different titles), the noise coming from the sound cards' amplifier, even good quality ones like Sondigo Inferno, is very noticeable. The Callisto I mentioned before, and I'm pretty sure this one too, will get rid of this noise. Pretty much in the same way that using the S/PDIF output to an external sound processor will do too.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Well, sadly what it does is total snake oil. It's practically vastly overpriced, vastly big and vastly ugly CD reader drive, that probably can't even read a data disk.
Shame on them.
CD reader? What are you talking about? Do you even know what this thing does?
Think before you post.
This is just an USB sound card with some nice features. It is not by any chance snake oil. It takes the noise out because only the digital sound stream goes over the USB, and the D/A conversion takes place without as much interference as inside the computer going through all the mobo circuitry.
I have been looking at something like this for some time, it is nice. I have been using the similar Sondigo Callisto, which is great, but it doesn't have Dolby Headphone. Hopefully this one does.
By the way, if you have super-sensitive earphones like the Shure E500's or SE530 (the same with different titles), the noise coming from the sound cards' amplifier, even good quality ones like Sondigo Inferno, is very noticeable. The Callisto I mentioned before, and I'm pretty sure this one too, will get rid of this noise. Pretty much in the same way that using the S/PDIF output to an external sound processor will do too.
Thx for the explanation