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Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital: MQA HW decoding at reasonable cost -Anyone have this?

I am throwing my system thru the paces of some reasonable upgrades and found some intriguing reviews on this DAC.
 http://www.box-designs.com/main.php?prod=preboxs2digital&cat=s2-line&lang=en

This looks like a great entry to test MQA and have ability to use 7 different filters to salt and pepper digital stream to taste.  Only have an older  DACs Marantz (NA7004) Schitt (Modi) and older Emotiva AV processors (LMC-1 , UMC-1). All non MQA or latest chips.

Anyone think this is worth the plunge for the money?


azthu

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bondmanp
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@philtangerine - Thanks for your post.  It is very informative.  I actually prefer the option of non-upsampling if a DAC upsamples, and if this one doesn't, that's fine with me. 


I am still curious to hear what users think of this DAC's non-USB performance at Red Book and higher resolutions.  Especially curious how this might stack up against the internal DAC on the Bluesound Node 2 (for $100 more you get a streamer).

bondmanp
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@kalali - Thanks for clarifying, but I remain confused.  Why is it not possible to send the digital output of the Node 2 to one of the S/PDIF inputs on the Pro-Ject?
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