Some time ago, I wrote about my US-16x08 acting up. So, some time last fall, I decided to open it and see what might be the cause. This is mostly a teardown “manual”, some photos of the chips in there, and some ranting about cheap choices. Oh, and if you …
My daily driver laptop for about everything for a few years now, running Linux.
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 11)
12 kHz: 
Null test: 
Positive surprise. Noise floor is below -80 dB most of the time …
Cheap soundcard that I bought mainly to have an analog volume dial on my desk. Has a suspicious “treble/neutral/bass” switch. On my old desk, it created audible noise behind my USB hub, so it went into the parts bin after a couple of years …
Quite some time ago, I had the opportunity to grab one of these “studio” audio interfaces for a reasonable (used) price. It mostly brags with the low noise recording of course. Despite its relatively small size, it has a total of 16 input and 8 output channels, plus …
Slightly outdated but still fully functioning AVR that I got my hands on. Measurements only cover the headphone jack. Connected via HDMI, 2 channel PCM mode.
12 kHz, normal mode, “enhancer” off, “straight” profile:
12 kHz, “pure direct” mode:
Null test, “pure direct”:
Looks good for …
For various reasons, I own a couple of very different audio / headphone outputs (“ADCs”). After one evening, where I dove too deep into the rabbit hole of audio quality, I decided I should just go and measure them.
To be absolutely clear: I have no idea what I’m …