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Yeah it even creeps in when i use the analyser with a laptop on battery - insidious!

If you running an inverter it ain't good. I have a Deye 5kW inverter and it generates a nasty spike at ~16kHz and a spray of harmonics at multiples of that. See attached images. All inverters are switched power supplies so I guess no real surprise there but I thought the switching frequency...

Get a Behringer DEQ2496: very cheap and because it has optical ins and outs so you needn’t use its ADCs or DACs

Octal bases have a ‘key’ protruding from the middle of the base not sure you would want to remove that, but you can - I know because I have broken a couple off….

You can make that linear supply a lot quieter for cheap:

If it is a desktop PC, save your cash and search Amazon for "SPDIF bracket" almost all modern motherboards have the spdif signal on the board already

The white sandcast things everyone poo-poos are wirewound resistors which are quieter than film resistors (no excess noise) - you can find better looking wirewounds at RS Components - nice green vitreous enamel clad thingies or sexy gold heatsinked ones - but you are just paying for the looks...

@adie at your old age you still got it 😉

When it comes to discussions about cables there cannot be any peace ✌️

Great analogy!

Checked your DAC is set for balanced out and the Topping is set for balanced input? I doubt the Topping will use fuses - its a headphone amplifier not a power amp - probably uses electronic protection.

White noise is a sound whereupon all frequencies therein have exactly equal levels. Some instruments and recordings do have information above 20kHz so recording audio at higher sampling rates is not pointless - whether we can actually hear the results may be pointless. But it is interesting to...

The flat straight line you’re seeing at `24kHz indicates the audio was originally recorded at 48kHz (audio bandwidth can only ever be half the sampling frequency). Many hi-res files 88.2kHz, 96kHz or 192kHz are often just 44.1/48kHz files upsampled to the new frequency - thus they cannot contain...

You wont be able to tell if the file is 24bit from the display. If file is 24bit it will indicate that - it is a file property. What you want to know is whether the music was 16bit and then saved/converted to 24bit, as opposed to recorded in 24bit.