LHLabs Geek Out V2 Review

I see someone has a Silverstone Fortress FT-02 
IMO one of the best non-gaming cases ever created; not enough air for a gaming rig, though. Top panel seems slightly different than mine so I guess it's not USB3?

For some reason, I just can't get past the $299 price point for GOv2.

1kHz tone measurements attached. 100k ohm load (as a DAC). Note that these are different from Ultrabike's who is measuring on a 300ohm load (I will do this later).

Very clean.

LOL! My equipments is proly limited actually. For better performing DACs and Amps I trust the your QA400 measurements more.

I also find the GOV2 pretty engaging. It's something I was also looking for since it's pretty plug/play and decent sounding. I run it in high gain single ended for my HD600s. This combo is what I use the most from my laptop these days actually.

25.1K spike with 19khz tone at 44.1Ksps is caused by the reconstruction filter used.

44100-19000 = 25100hz -> aliasing distortion related to transition band slope and stopband attenuation.

edit for shit math.

For FRM the transition band is very gradual to reduce time domain ringing. I'm not sure about it since datasheet for the 9018 used in the GOV2 is undisclosed. For a mobile device though, its probably the DC charge pump.