amirm said: Jude has gone silent on me so I don't expect anything to come out of that... Click to expand...

jude said: Hi amirm, someone sent me to the post on your forum where you discuss loopback on the APx555:



I'll run the loopback test, but I want to make sure I run it exactly as you did.



Can you tell me your exact settings for the linearity loopback test with which you got the result in your post?



Connector:

Sample Rate:

Etc.



Are you choosing one of the digital outputs under "Output Configuration" and then checking the "Loopback" box under "Input Configuration"?



Sorry to ask such simple questions, but I want to try running it exactly as you did.



Thanks in advance, amirm.



Best Regards,

Jude Click to expand...

amirm said: Let's do the reverse (I am not yet ready to share mine as I am still optimizing it to match the AP2522). Please send me the project the file that you used for linearity measurements. My email address is (I redacted amirm's email address for this post). Click to expand...

nwavguy said: Just so you know, I have multiple screen captures of the entire Schiit thread. Head-fi, in the past, has deleted many of my posts so please understand I take additional precautions after learning Jude's methods.



I've talked with my attorney and I'm fully prepared to post the real truth on my blog, and elsewhere, regarding censorship and bias at Head-Fi if I'm censored again. Jude has been entirely unreasonable in the past and I won't put up with more of the same. I'm in a better position than ever to let the truth be known with over 100,000 unique visitors to my blog. I'm 100% serious about exposing any company, Schiit Audio included, that mis-represents their products. In the end, the truth will always prevail. I will make SURE it does. Click to expand...

I've had graduation parties and a surprise birthday party that have kept me busy through most of the day and evening.The other night I asked you simply for your specific settings for testing loopback linearity:(That was before I noticed your X-axis was dBV.)And you respond with:Your answer didn't surprise me one bit.Start with the default new APx project file, set APx to output digital through its balanced digital output --> Yggdrasil 2's balanced digital input. HPSA checked. High-pass AC (<10 Hz). Low-pass ADC passband. Weighting none. EQ none. Yggdrasil 2 to the AP's balanced analog inputs. Sequence mode, stepped level sweep, linearity. Waveform sine. Start level -140 dBFS. Stop level 0 dBFS. Sweep linear. Points 281 (for a step size of 0.500 dBFS). Frequency 1 kHz.Once you get an Yggdrasil 2 back in your hands, you can run it yourself.amirm, at this point, I'm strongly inclined to agree with Currawong -- I feelconfident that I'm once again dealing with nwavguy. WelcomeUntil now, I have never publiclyexplained why nwavguy was banned, because we do not typically discuss a member banning except with the member being banned. I had received several hostile messages from nwavguy that began when I asked him to stop constantly linking to his blog -- they weren't pleasant message exchanges, but these had nothing to do with his ban. What finally got nwavguy banned wasn't any post he made, but a message he sent to one of our moderators. He sent the following message -- unsolicited -- to our moderator kwkarth:This is a message I have shared over the years with only a handful of people outside of our moderating team, including a couple of industry members, and a couple of community members.As any longtime moderator here will tell you, one of our internal policies is that when someone contacts us with a hostile or threatening tone, and particularly with any mention of attorneys or lawsuits, we take itseriously. Attorney fees (billed atof dollars per hour) add up every time we have to call them to discuss any issues that we feel should be brought to their attention. As such, anyone taking such a posture or tone with us won't be posting here anymore.By the way, if anyone searches our forums for nwavguy's posts criticizing any company (Schiit included),What we deleted (to his great consternation) was hislinking to his blog, which we'd asked him to curb. We told him he could post his data and findings here instead of constantly linking out -- he continued with his constant linking-out anyway. All of his graphs were very clearly watermarked with his blog's URL, so it's not like anyone wouldn't know where they came from. Again, his findings, opinions, and measurements remained. The assertion that we deleted his posts about those companies and their products was a misconception that nwavguy pushed, but that was inaccurate, and he knew that -- but it made for a good story on his blog.So many clues lead me tobelieve I know who I'm dealing with.And the last two lines of that old PM from nwavguy... Perhaps he wasn't biased or without an agenda either.