Pooh Bear wrote in
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R wrote:

"Arny Krueger" wrote in news:qZ-dnTNPju7CgF_cRVn-
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"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message



I don't believe the count is relevant. The point is that putting
two dacs in parallel lowers distortion and I feel that if I am going
to spend some money, I might as well spend a bit more and get the
best.

In audio interfaces, AFAIK "The Best" is the LynxTWO.




An input impedance of 24 ohms balanced and 12 ohms unbalanced? Isn't
that a bit low?


Apparently you can't read a spec sheet.

Input Impedance Balanced mode: 24 kW , Unbalanced mode: 12 kW ( the
ohms symbol appears as W in plain text btw ).

http://www.lynxstudio.com/lynxtwospecs.html

IIRC - most modern converters work differentially internally anyway. The
inputs and outputs on the converters I'm currently using are
differential and most others I've looked at are too. Those that are
'single ended' usually have an internal inverting stage that converts
them to internally differential.

You're worrying about non-issues.


Graham



http://lynxstudio.com/reviews/LynxTWOBrochureLoRes.pdf

Clearly says "Unbalanced Mode: 12 greek omega"

That means 12 ohms, not 12k ohms.

What were you saying about reading a spec sheet?

r

"Rich.Andrews" wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote in
:

R wrote:

"Arny Krueger" wrote in news:qZ-dnTNPju7CgF_cRVn-
:

"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message



I don't believe the count is relevant. The point is that putting
two dacs in parallel lowers distortion and I feel that if I am going
to spend some money, I might as well spend a bit more and get the
best.

In audio interfaces, AFAIK "The Best" is the LynxTWO.




An input impedance of 24 ohms balanced and 12 ohms unbalanced? Isn't
that a bit low?


Apparently you can't read a spec sheet.

Input Impedance Balanced mode: 24 kW , Unbalanced mode: 12 kW ( the
ohms symbol appears as W in plain text btw ).

http://www.lynxstudio.com/lynxtwospecs.html

IIRC - most modern converters work differentially internally anyway. The
inputs and outputs on the converters I'm currently using are
differential and most others I've looked at are too. Those that are
'single ended' usually have an internal inverting stage that converts
them to internally differential.

You're worrying about non-issues.


Graham



http://lynxstudio.com/reviews/LynxTWOBrochureLoRes.pdf

Clearly says "Unbalanced Mode: 12 greek omega"

That means 12 ohms, not 12k ohms.

What were you saying about reading a spec sheet?

That's a 'printing error' obviously. Input impedances are clearly going to be
kilohms. They ought to get someone to proof read better.

Check my link.

Graham

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:04:23 GMT, "Rich.Andrews"
wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote in
:

R wrote:

"Arny Krueger" wrote in news:qZ-dnTNPju7CgF_cRVn-
:

"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message


I don't believe the count is relevant. The point is that putting
two dacs in parallel lowers distortion and I feel that if I am going
to spend some money, I might as well spend a bit more and get the
best.

In that case, forget sound cards and use a Benchmark DAC-1.

In audio interfaces, AFAIK "The Best" is the LynxTWO.

An input impedance of 24 ohms balanced and 12 ohms unbalanced? Isn't
that a bit low?

Apparently you can't read a spec sheet.

Input Impedance Balanced mode: 24 kW , Unbalanced mode: 12 kW ( the
ohms symbol appears as W in plain text btw ).

http://www.lynxstudio.com/lynxtwospecs.html

IIRC - most modern converters work differentially internally anyway. The
inputs and outputs on the converters I'm currently using are
differential and most others I've looked at are too. Those that are
'single ended' usually have an internal inverting stage that converts
them to internally differential.

You're worrying about non-issues.

http://lynxstudio.com/reviews/LynxTWOBrochureLoRes.pdf

Clearly says "Unbalanced Mode: 12 greek omega"

That means 12 ohms, not 12k ohms.

What were you saying about reading a spec sheet?

You're reading different sheets. The input impedance is 24k ohms
balanced, the one you quote is simply a misprint.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message


http://lynxstudio.com/reviews/LynxTWOBrochureLoRes.pdf

Clearly says "Unbalanced Mode: 12 greek omega"

So, it does.

That means 12 ohms, not 12k ohms.

Agreed, thats what it says.

It's obviously a typo.

I think a wee bit of common sense is needed. No card this widely used and
respected could have a gross fault like this.

I have one and the Zin is clearly not 12 ohms. If I had to guess based on
hands-on use, I would have said at least 6 K ohms.

I not infrequently use my LynxTWO with a NHTPro PVC attenuator which has a
high enough output impedance that it would be totally unusable with a device
that had a 12 or 24 ohm Zin.

"Arny Krueger" wrote in
:

"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message


http://lynxstudio.com/reviews/LynxTWOBrochureLoRes.pdf

Clearly says "Unbalanced Mode: 12 greek omega"

So, it does.

That means 12 ohms, not 12k ohms.

Agreed, thats what it says.

It's obviously a typo.

I think a wee bit of common sense is needed. No card this widely used
and respected could have a gross fault like this.

I have one and the Zin is clearly not 12 ohms. If I had to guess based
on
hands-on use, I would have said at least 6 K ohms.

I not infrequently use my LynxTWO with a NHTPro PVC attenuator which has
a high enough output impedance that it would be totally unusable with a
device that had a 12 or 24 ohm Zin.





I thought it was rather unusual to have such a low input impedance. The
Marketing department strikes again. (:)

r