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 Digital Oversampling Filters

Your Big Ego offers a choice of three different digital 

interpolation filters, each of which sounds subtly different. 
To select a digital filter, press the Filter Select Switch once. 

The first LED will blink, and one or more of the LEDs above 

it will light steady blue - indicating which filter is currently 

selected. While the first LED is still blinking, press the Filter 

Select Switch repeatedly to cycle through the available 

filters. Within a few seconds after you stop pressing the 

button, your Big Ego will switch to the new filter, and resume 

normal operation. You will hear a slight period of silence 

when the filter switch occurs. 
The 

Symmetrical

 filter (F1) is a classical design which 

combines equal amounts of pre-ringing and post-ringing. 

This is the filter most commonly used by other DACs.
The 

Asymmetrical Low

 filter (F2) has virtually no pre-ringing, 

but several cycles of post-ringing. Many listeners find this 

combination to sound more natural, while still preserving 

the liveliness of your music. 
The 

Asymmetrical High

 filter (F3) has virtually no pre-ringing, 

and very little post-ringing. Listeners tend to describe 

this filter as sounding very mellow, but possibly more flat 

sounding than F2 with some program material. 

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Страница 2: ...h Quick Start If you have an Apple computer just connect the USB Input on your Big Ego to an available USB port on your computer and plug in your headphones If you have a Windows computer your Big Ego...

Страница 3: ...t an external USB sound card and you ll be able to play anything through your Big Ego that you can play on your computer The high quality low impedance headphone output will drive all standard headpho...

Страница 4: ...own volume controls The Toslink digital output carries a S PDIF version of the digital audio at the input which can be routed to another DAC or a digital input on a pre pro or AVR Pressing the Output...

Страница 5: ...Finder from the dock Select Applications Double click on Utilities Double click on Audio MIDI Setup Click on Emotiva Big Ego on the left to select it Click on the little gear on the bottom left Click...

Страница 6: ...you only play files below 96k or you re using your Big Ego on a friend s machine your Big Ego has a special mode that supports up to 96k without having to install drivers To use this Driverless Mode...

Страница 7: ...rol Panel To tell your Windows 8 1 computer to use Big Ego Connect your Big Ego to a USB port on your computer On your computer sweep in from the right edge of your touch screen or bump your mouse aga...

Страница 8: ...ly Apple Computers By default Apple computers always play audio files at a single preset sample rate If you want to play all high resolution audio files at full quality on an Apple computer you ll hav...

Страница 9: ...stall our drivers to unleash the full potential of the Big Ego with a Windows computer Some versions of Linux also support UAC2 but not all Since it isn t always convenient to install drivers on a Win...

Страница 10: ...g Ego will switch to the new filter and resume normal operation You will hear a slight period of silence when the filter switch occurs The Symmetrical filter F1 is a classical design which combines eq...

Страница 11: ...of ringing is added to the signal While this ringing is not audible as a separate sound its presence can subtly alter the sound character of the output The first picture on the left shows what a theor...

Страница 12: ...ndicating which filter is currently selected While the first LED is still blinking press the Filter Select Switch repeatedly to cycle through the available filters until the fourth LED is lit HP Headp...

Страница 13: ...onvert that analog signal into digital audio we start with a clock that marks off equal amounts of time For each tick of our clock we measure the voltage of the signal and save it as a number The pict...

Страница 14: ...surement which determines how accurately we can store each value is called the bit depth The bit depth used by standard CD audio is 16 bits which means 16 digits in binary The math there tells us that...

Страница 15: ...w exactly what your computer is sending to your Big Ego Lossless vs Lossy Compression Digital audio files take up a significant amount of storage space especially at higher sample rates and bit depths...

Страница 16: ...CDs The most common formats for high resolution audio at the moment are 24 96 and 24 192 with the files themselves being either uncompressed WAV files or in the lossless FLAC or ALAC formats High reso...

Страница 17: ...ple Rates Supported Apple computers 44 1k 384k no drivers required Windows computers 44 1k 384k with free drivers Windows computers 44 1k 96k driverless Bit Depths Supported 16 bits 24 bits 32 bits Fr...

Страница 18: ...ter Make sure that the volume control is not set all the way down Problem You re playing high resolution files but the Big Ego still shows a 44k sample rate Check for Your computer or player software...

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