After a couple of months of lurking to try and get the benefit of others' experience, I am approaching pulling the trigger but my new listening room (just moved) has some serious issues and my reading has led me to the Behringer DEQ2496.Has anyone done an "all-out mod" on a Behringer DEQ2496 (a la Reference Audio Mods or similar) and gotten fantastic results?
I am particularly interested in mods to the DAC section in order to reduce jitter and/or improve the DAC. Has anyone...
- dropped in an AKM4395 (or something else) in place of the AKM4393?
- put in more DACs? cascaded or otherwise?
- added a superclock?
- added a USB input?
- changed the input wiring to I2S?
- done a DAC to OPT bypassing the other stuff after the DAC?I am thinking that if one could do any or all of that, one would have a pretty good DAC destination for a PC server (one with parametric equalization capability built in).
If there are reasons which make the Behringer DEQ2496 wholly unsuitable to getting very high-quality redbook output no matter what one does, I would love to hear that too.
Thanks in advance.
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Topic - Behringer DEQ2496 Mods - Could this be a good musicserver DAC? - travisty 16:49:08 03/30/07 (11)
- Thanks Erik and Audioengr... - travisty 17:39:57 03/31/07 (2)
- Re: Thanks Erik and Audioengr... - audioengr 18:22:47 03/31/07 (1)
- Thanks. I may have more questions for you offline [nt]. - travisty 19:40:04 03/31/07 (0)
- The obvious Mod... DAC After the EQ - erik_squires@hotmail.com 17:02:10 03/31/07 (0)
- Re: Behringer DEQ2496 Mods - Could this be a good musicserver DAC? - erik_squires@hotmail.com 16:56:31 03/31/07 (4)
- Re: Behringer DEQ2496 Mods - Could this be a good musicserver DAC? - longtimequadowner 23:22:26 03/31/07 (2)
- Re: Behringer DEQ2496 Mods - Could this be a good musicserver DAC? - audioengr 10:22:21 04/01/07 (0)
- You can't fix room problems with an EQ, mostly... - erik_squires@hotmail.com 00:53:22 04/01/07 (0)
- Good Advice (nt) - audioengr 18:23:44 03/31/07 (0)
- Re: Behringer DEQ2496 Mods - Could this be a good musicserver DAC? - audioengr 11:57:07 03/31/07 (0)
- I had a stock one..... - doodlebug 18:30:16 03/30/07 (0)