Weiss Minerva Dac


Hi,

I wanted to know if anyone over here has got the Minerva dac from Weiss. What is the sound like? also can one up-sample to 192KHz and stream it to the DAC?

Best Regards,

Satyam Bachani.
sbfx
Also, 24/192 is possible via USB 2.0. I don't believe anyone is doing it yet, but Empirical Audio is planning to. Will require two clocks.
If what Drubin says is correct, then USB / Single Digital Cable from Transport to DAC should be possible for 24/192.

Is that so ?
Schwinnindia,

The problem is everyone is only using USB 1.0 until now, as Drubin said Empirical Audio is planing on releasing a DAC with USB 2.0!

ATM USB 1.0 96/24 MAX.

Regards,

Satyam Bachani.
With all due respect, Schwinnindia and some others are absolutely mistaken. As far as the Playback Designs and maybe a few other players and, or DACs, AES/EBU and SPDIF are truly capable of going up to up to 192kHz with a single cable. TOSLINK is limited to 96kHz.

There are some sound cards that support hi-rez output through single AES/EBU or SP/DIF cables. The Lynx AES 16 is one of them. The Playback Designs will receive these hi-res files and recognize the true bandwidth at up to 24 bits. As a matter of fact, it will even convert these files to twice the sample rate of DSD.

We just exhibited at CES / T.H.E. Show playing TRUE 24/192 through a single AES/EBU cable.
Some TOSLINK protocols also support 192khz. But I would only trust firewire, coaxial and AES/EBU!