Motherboard Shoot Out
Posted: 2020-01-22 19:02
I previously posted this set of clips in the Playground but it ran into difficulties with refreshing.
These clips have the Hakai, two other motherboards plus a wildcard.
The relative costs of the motherboards is dramatically different. It's been a while since I looked at the cost of a Streacom case plus power supply. The cheapest option here can be up and running for £47 plus SSD for the OS (I usually pay £10 or so for an Intel 320) and DAC.
Clip A is a lower volume than the others. There's little I can do about it. My usual room listening volume with a Linn Preamp plus two LK140s bi amped is 50-55. For clip recording I have the volume set at 60. The volume of souce A was a little lower according to the sound meter decibel app and my ears at 81. At 82 it was a little louder according to the app. I can't set it to 81.5. Some motherboards output at different levels, I can't control that but made as much compensation as I could.
All boards used the same preamp input, the same Supra cable and the same ESI Gigaport HD+ DAC and used Linn silver interconnects.
Please comment before you know the identity of the sources. As close to a secret ballot as possible :)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LK27m ... KeM5uureFY
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LQ33X ... XFdrUR3Peb
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LUCvm ... mQgiZ_4de8
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LUsTq ... yVf1jbQsQE
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LXjQW ... -TLzoTKjgP
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LZZWD ... 0awVLR9zHg
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LdNxO ... xTPf3BmrJZ
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Lm_xY ... yJKlSmL2Xo
Opinions welcomed as always.
These clips have the Hakai, two other motherboards plus a wildcard.
The relative costs of the motherboards is dramatically different. It's been a while since I looked at the cost of a Streacom case plus power supply. The cheapest option here can be up and running for £47 plus SSD for the OS (I usually pay £10 or so for an Intel 320) and DAC.
Clip A is a lower volume than the others. There's little I can do about it. My usual room listening volume with a Linn Preamp plus two LK140s bi amped is 50-55. For clip recording I have the volume set at 60. The volume of souce A was a little lower according to the sound meter decibel app and my ears at 81. At 82 it was a little louder according to the app. I can't set it to 81.5. Some motherboards output at different levels, I can't control that but made as much compensation as I could.
All boards used the same preamp input, the same Supra cable and the same ESI Gigaport HD+ DAC and used Linn silver interconnects.
Please comment before you know the identity of the sources. As close to a secret ballot as possible :)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LK27m ... KeM5uureFY
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LQ33X ... XFdrUR3Peb
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LUCvm ... mQgiZ_4de8
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LUsTq ... yVf1jbQsQE
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LXjQW ... -TLzoTKjgP
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LZZWD ... 0awVLR9zHg
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LdNxO ... xTPf3BmrJZ
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Lm_xY ... yJKlSmL2Xo
Opinions welcomed as always.