Aug 3, 2020 · On paper its specs are interesting: 16bit ADC, max sample rate 32MHz (in theory one could sample the whole LW+MW+SW bands at the same time), USB 3 interface, and tunable from 1kHz to 1.8GHz.

Aug 3, 2019 · The Dragonfly v1.2 has a steep cutoff, excellent anti-imaging suppression, but quite a bit of harmonic distortion and intermodulation products can be seen. Notice that all 3 DACs "overload" with the 0dBFS white noise.

Sep 13, 2018 · The “Dragonfly Black” and it’s sister, the “Dragonfly Red”, are the latest USB-stick DAC/amps (sometimes called a “dongle DAC”) from AudioQuest. It supports PCM bit-rates from 44.1 to 96 kHz at 24-bit depth and can support MQA rendering with suitable player software.

Jun 26, 2003 · Windows uses 16 bit, 48 kHz audio by default (not 41.1 kHz used by the music industry). Everything is either up-sampled or down-sampled to fit (using dithering).

Aug 5, 2020 · While doing the daily eBay and AliExpress strolling for new and cool radio stuff, this showed up: RX888 ADC SDR Receiver radio1.8GHz 16bit direct sampling HF UHF VHF HDSDR. Like the DragonFly RX-666 you posted about recently, it’s based on IK1XPV Oscar’s BBRF103 works. Both share a hefty metal case. I really like this seller of RX888 on eBay.

The DAC is presented with dithered data representing a 1kHz tone at –90dBFS with either 16-bit words (top pair of traces) or 24-bit words (bottom traces). The traces peak at exactly –90dBFS, suggesting very low linearity error, which was confirmed with a separate test (not shown).

5 days ago · I am using it on a Windows 7 PC, using J River Media Centre 18 configured to output to the dragonfly via "WASAPI - Event Style" - which is recommended on every forum I have reviewed. 1. When I play a 16 bit 41kHz flac file (2 channel), the dragonfly is green and I get sound to the headphones plugged in. Good. 2.

Jan 18, 2014 · Foobar has a very good resampler plugin (SoX) - set the target sample rate to 96 kHz and quality to Best. Conversion from 16 to 24 bit is harmless and will not degrade the sound quality at all.

Oct 18, 2008 · As the DAC is 24, it won’t play if you send 16 bits only, it needs 24. BTW: to play 16 bit on a 24 DAC all that is needed is padding 8 zero bits. This won’t alter sound quality.