No, He's Serbian. I have an Audiobyte/Rockna Black Dragon-actually Made in Romania true home of Dracula, named it DACula a long time ago! Nice try though, in the area but not officially Transylvania!
You can be proud of this name and the quality of work which you do. Use it because it is up to everyone else to make the effort with pronouncing it. We owe you that
I think the HS02 actually reclocks and regenerates the data signal, according to a RME post on ASR. It adds a latency (0.29μs), so it can't be fully transparent. Being a galvanic isolator it has to regenerate both power and signal from the source. The ADuM4166 isolator chip retimes the high speed data to a external clock or crystal input and 'can' reduce jitter, according to its datasheet.
Love your name. Love your reviews! I had a very close Serbian friend & colleague who was a basketball player here in the US. My initial impression was that all Serbian guys are super tall lol. I'm an Indian btw. And i love your food!
I think it’s great you’re letting your sense of humor come through. I said this many times, your ability to speak English as well as you do is amazing. Add to it a different character set with the language. Btw, I’m an old guy from the US. I wouldn’t have said Dracula but more like Boris Badenov. He’s before your time but if you want a laugh, look him up.
Rocky and Bullwinkle was never broadcasted in my country but I kept hearing about it in Full House, a sitcom that I loved watching. Of course I googled it now. 🙂
I’ll be 70 soon. When I was 7 or so my dad would watch it with me and laugh out loud. The half hour was watched by kids but was secretly for adults. Boris was my favorite “The worlds greatest nogoodnik”.
Try one test if you can. Max out the volume on your PreAmp with and without the device and see if there is a difference in the amount of noise from your tweeter.
I am using ISOUSB211DPEVM USB isolator for cheap. Just put it into the off-the-shelf box. However, I can notice better clarity with my LA-QXD1. I found it in an article "USB Isolators for Audio - My Hi-Fi Journey". Maybe, it will be helpful for somebody.
Great video! I currently use the iFi Nano IUSB 3.0 usb isolator and iFi iDefender+ usb ground loop eliminator with my media pc. They seem to be working since I haven't heard ground noise, hum, or distortion in years. This is important because I do use Little Dot MK3 tube amp as you've stated are sensitive to noise. These devices work excellent with my new SMSL SU-9 Pro dac as well. I believe you reviewed one of these iFi devices many many years ago. Your videos are much different now. Lol Thank you for another great video!
Srboljub - Thank you for your beautiful explanation and cultural history of your beautiful name. I am glad to know it. I feel enriched by knowing that. It also goes well with your handsome face! As for the Topping, there are quite a few such devices on the market now. I am not surprised by your results. I have tried the Audioquest Jitterbug. I found that all it did was slightly roll-off the details in the highs. But I do want to try the ifi LAN Silencer for the ethernet connection!! Supposedly it removes noise from your router etc.. We shall see!
Your name is absolutely not difficult to pronounce, even for a person such as myself who regretfully speaks English only. Once again, you have made me laugh and one of the reasons I have enjoyed your videos this past year. Your reference to Dracula and the photo of Bela Lugosi was FUNNY!! Take Care Mate🤙
it is a nice name ! So is Serbia ! Not so uncommon in USA, England or Netherlands but im called Edwin in France and no one can pronounce it right the first time !
I actually had a problem with my Topping stack attached to my 7-year old gaming PC, where I can hear some increasing hiss when the CPU and GPU are ramping up. The previous galvanic isolator from Topping, the HS01, did solve this.
I just ordered the HS02 to try solving the same sort of issues. At least I can return it easily since I ordered on amazon if it doesn't make enough of an improvement. I think this is one of the most likely use cases as gaming PCs can produce shit loads of interference.
Yeah, I was having the exact same problems few years ago and I guess that HS02 would have sold them. But I couldn't replicate them with any of my current setups that just refused to be noisy.
@@iiWiReviews just tested it in my system and I can't believe how much difference it made to my noise floor with games running. I can't hear anything I shouldn't even at max volume/gain, before it was screeching/buzzing when I moved the mouse in certain games.
thanks for explaining your name & the history behind it. yes in Indonesia we also said like your Serbian : drakula, coz the letter A is pronounced A not others
Dc/Dc in PC has Y1 capacitor between secondary to primary, this Y1 capacitor is needed to pass LVD standard , BUT at the same time make headache if you want floating system , such as PC connected to DAC . Especially if you have metal enclosure. So such device break the path of Y1 and also ground loop . I use myself belcanto reflink which is inbuilt galvanic isolated USB interface , it has circuit from analog device.
I am Dutch. No problems with rolling r's Srrrrboljub ;) Not sure what the purpose of this device is. Ground loops are hums at the AC frequency level 50 or 60hz, but PC's usually also add a lot of static noise. So maybe it deals with both?
Cool, I'm Russian Orthodox and those families that follow the religion have it pretty simple in picking names. When a baby is born, they look at a few saints that are commemorated during that time and get to choose the name from their names - names of the saints (male/female). So I'm Ivan and was born on January 11 and got the name chosen by my parents that picked it from John (Ivan) of Kronstadt that was being commemorated on January 2nd. ;) Pretty cool I think, and you can't blame anyone for your name, it's chosen by religion ;) Btw, I love my name! ;)) I love your channel and the way you describe the audio, as we can't really experience it through the video. If there's anyway you could include links to Amazon product pages with your affiliation, it would yield many more purchases I'm sure. As I have to google the products anyway and go to Amazon to buy them, as that's where most of us in North America shop online. It's just easier that way, everyone already has an account with their wallet/shipping info saved and products get delivered in a day or two with easy 30 day returns. Hope that's available for you to set up. This is the process I go through on anyone's video without an Amazon affiliation link: I click the link, it's a site I'm not familiar with and besides look at pictures and maybe specs I have to go back to the video, select the product name in the video title, right click and select search on google, then click the 1st/2nd link that takes me to Amazon where I make the purchase. If Google made affiliation links like that, they'd be even more rich ;) Don't miss out on these affiliation sales!
Ivan is a common name here too, one of my friends is named Ivan. 👍 As for the Amazon links, I do have them on some reviews... But if a review unit was sent from a particular online shop, then that shop's link is used.
Hello what do u consider as a complete cleaning reclocking device? What about the dragonfly jitterbug? And how those devices can compete with the properly designed usb cables like supra 2.0 or audioquest carbon or others?
I have a Logitech Powerplay mouse pad (wirelessly charges the mouse) which introduces electrical noise into my GoXLR currently. Something like this might be the way to eliminate that.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't use galvanic isolation. I don't know how it removes ground noise but when I was researching a galvanic isolation product I saw these topping isolators are not galvanic.
Why no introduce yourself as Serba? You can use the rolling 'r', it is used in my own native language (Portuguese), and it's how that letter is pronounced in Scotland, so the English are used to it already.
You got a lot of comments quick on this one. You might remember when I greeted you in Serbian the other day with the DO300 thing. I'm pleased that I nailed it on Serbian. All the Slavic languages sound a lot alike to me, and I rarely hear them spoken at all in Texas. Go figure. But I had a Serbian friend here in the US a while back, and you and he sound very similar. The name thing made me think to tell you this overly long comment but I though you might find it funny. The guy's name was Predrag Radavanovíc, that last suffix the same as yours. Maybe "son of" or something similar. Anyway, Radavanovílíc is quite easy to say quickly, but Predrag, well, you know, the "r" in the throat thing.. He wouldn't tell folks his name because of the horrible bastardizations of pronunciation and laughs it could and usually would produce. Out of respect, I decided to make a point to learn to pronounce it, and I have to tell you, it's still hard for me to say even after years of practice. Given this interest in names and language in general, it will come as no surprise that I looked up the pronunciation and etymology of your name, but I have to tell you that the AI thing pronounces each syllable correctly but fails to run the 3 together. OK, so that's the end of my ramblings. Hope you found it amusing. Everyone else is probably annoyed, but hey, I've got nothing better to do.....
The "ic" ending is the most common ending for surnames and the form really stems from "son of the"... But that was much before my time, now it's simply passed from parents to children. And, yes, Predrag is a very strong sounding name that might be even more difficult to pronounce for Anglo-Saxon speakers. 🙂
In Canada and US the tendency is to shorten a person's name if it is unpronounceable or simply has too many syllables. In other words, we come up with nicknames for each other, which are usually short and to the point. In your case, what shall we use as a nickname? "Serb"? "Serbi"?
Karan is now making only their Master line as far as I'm aware. It's so costly and outside of my area (tens of thousands of dollars) that I wouldn't even know how to value and score it. It's also questionable if my system is good enough to really assess their quality fully.
I am one of those who really believe that anyone can pronounce a name even if it is not used to. It’s a matter of “mimic”. That simple. Will it be 100%? Probably not. But if you reach 70%, everybody gets happy.
In Serbian (& Hrvatski) language, are there also infinite, affectionate variations for names, as in Russian? I.e., Aleksandr = Sasha, Sanya, Shura, Shurik, etc?
I wouldn't say infinite but there are a few usually... one at least. Those are usually short and fluid... And if someone calls your full name you know something serious and probably unpleasant is on. 😅
SIR-bol-yoob maybe? You say it quickly, and that makes harder for some folks to hear. But I think for me personally, it is less difficult than your nickname - rolling R's is not something I speak; and it would take practice.
@Steven I'm not arguing that but all products claiming to improve sound quality but where any measurable differences tend to fall way out of the audible range 😏 Keep bying snakeoil products by all means made up of grand marketing claims
@@JustBrowsing777 Well measurements are only part of the story... ask ANY loudspeaker designer! But here we are talking about galvanic isolation so not 'snake oil' at all.
@@steven2809 Isolation for the purpose of reducing noise which usually falls outside of the audible range anyway. This review provided no real value for the purpose of the product. We still don't know if it reduces audible noise and if at all how well (which I doubt).
@@JustBrowsing777 He states clearly it will correct for ground loops which most certainly ARE audible! You are attempting to criticise the wrong product...🙄
While I appreciate all the kudo's and name clarification, I still DON'T know if you recommend or am just doing a show and tell. PLEASE CLARIFY. I get it your a nice guy NEWS FLASH we all are nice people.
