audphile1
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| What did a good 10 MHz clock do for your Gustard R26? Yep I’m talking about R26. If you have a second unit that doesn’t sound right then you should be done. there’s a lot of hype going on around the LAiV Harmony DAC. May be try that? Seems to be receiving lots of praise from the reviewers. | |
| What did a good 10 MHz clock do for your Gustard R26? Don’t put lipstick on a pig. Send this DAC back and move on. | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts Bricasti had two modes to play DSD - NDSD (native dsd) and PCM. Use NDSD and feed it Native DSD from N200. Whether DSD sounds better than hi-res it’s for you to decide. It will sound different. To me DSD typically sounds softer than th... | |
| Aurender N20 upsampling with tambaqui In my experience not upsampling before the DAC (be it roon or streamer upsampling or both) produces better and more natural sounding presentation. | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts so what’s the ETA on the DAC? | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts I use a $39 LG external cd-rom drive. It’s not super fast though. The dbppweramp has validation built in and will display the results if any issues. So far I ran it without any problems. | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts if storage space is a concern you can rip in compressed FLAC. I have plenty of storage and not too many CDs left to rip so I do it in uncompressed FLAC using dbpoweramp. I haven’t compared compressed vs uncompressed but am assuming the ... | |
| Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching. Looks like either option would work just fine @kennymacc according to Dr Poop | |
| Opinions on PS Audio Direct Stream DAC (Mk 1) @magon synergy is key. If it doesn’t gel in your system, move on. I have zero brightness with this DAC in my setup and have no issues with bass. Mismatched impedance between components can result in what you’re describing. Send it back. @shoot... | |
| Need a modern Class A monoblock, preferably half or compact chassis XA60.8 or X260.8 with 34w of Class A. Sell them when something equivalent half the footprint comes out (never). | |
| Tube amps under $7500 Go for that VT80SE. Worth a shot. | |
| Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching. Both approaches are fine depending on the system and cables. More often than not you may end up with too much of a good thing using same brand/line. | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts dsf are dsd files. I see you’re having a 💩 ton of fun. Lol. Just take a deep breath you’ll get there. | |
| Sound Quality How do you "Highlight" your responses here on AG? like this? use the double quote toggle | |
| Sound Quality @navyachts I thought there were some DSD albums on the SSD, no? That is where you would get native DSD over to M1S2. |