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BLUETOOTH, EQ CONTROL, 5 AUDIO MODES: Our powerful 50 watt soundbar and speaker comes with various audio connections and an EQ feature to customize your audio to how you want it. Music, radio, gaming, movies, live sport. All those years I waited---companies were working feverishly to improve the sound you get from taking USB and extracting audio data out of all the streams that are coming out of USB simultaneously. This convertor presented a slightly bigger soundstage than the others, and seemed to be fuller to the point of shouting the music at me! It seemed to be louder than the other convertors which seems impossible given the job it’s doing. It certainly is a forceful communicator!
The Halide Bridge convertor has a standard USB plug at one end, and a giant phono plug at the other, that plugs into a normal S/PDIF electrical input. Inside the plug lies the convertor. After a cursory survey of the different adapters concerned, I was immediately drawn to this unusual audio piece. It is literally a cable, with the electronics built into the cable – the S/PDIF end. It takes it’s power from the USB on the laptop, but can be cleverly upgraded by providing dedicated power.If I was asked to expend the ranking to include those 3 new converters, I would award them with the following score: AUX, OPTICAL, RCA, REMOTE CONTROLLED: Our sound bar has been designed with ease of use in mind - simply plug in, and play using the wide range of connections. Listen to your playlists straight from your phone through the latest Bluetooth technology - go truly wireless with our supplied remote control.
This problem is well understood by us because we have gone through the entire USB To SPDIF Converter Audiophile research process ourselves, which is why we have put together a comprehensive list of the best USB To SPDIF Converter Audiophiles available in the market today. The 'dirty' and 'clean' sides are both isolated by a chip. The lettering on the chip was removed, but I’m pretty sure this is the ADuM* chip, isolating the I2S lines between the XMOS chip and the SPDIF output. This test was done with the Audacity tool generating white noise at -20 dBFS. This technique was developed by Jurgen Reis of MBL. John Atkinson first applied it in his test reports and it has spread widely since then. Although no signal information exists above 24 kHz when sampled at 48k samples/sec the noise is aliased and the reflected noise traces out the frequency response of the reconstruction filter. I would never have expected this but Jurgen Reis showed us how to do it
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The cables I used for the shootout were the excellent AudioQuest Diamond USB, Kimber D-60 RCA->BNC, dCS generic BNC to BNC cable and later on, also the Stealth Varidig Sextet AES/EBU. I used a 16-bit test with REW introducing the square wave at an amplitude of the smallest level possible for 16-bit data which is called the least significant bit. An excellent explanation of the J-Test and the spurs the test produces can be found at this link
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