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| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC I'm in the UK. Postage would be a nightmare. | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC Thanks for all the help guys. FYI I have cut the Gordian knot and bought a Naim Uniti Atom one-box streaming system. I guess I ran out of patience with all this.Anybody want a Roksan Caspian M2 integrated, a Node 2i and a Qutest?:D | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC Also my Node 2i is wired on ethernet from the router. I'm gonna try wifi to see if that makes a difference! No idea how it could, but nothing else makes sense!(I can hear jazzman7 coughing politely and saying something about interconnects ;) | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC @ddude003 Yes, I'm using TIDAL and the Node 2i is an MQA renderer. But it's the same with CD-quality tracks from TIDAL too, internet radio, everything. I'm going to try the same setup with a different amp I have to see if it's the amp that is putt... | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC @jazzman7 Thanks for the comments. I am not discounting your suggestion of trying different interconnects. At the moment it's a Chord C-Digital coaxial and a cheap Toslink. I have tried the Chord cable vs a cheapo one and heard zero difference, wh... | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC I’m starting to doubt that digital outputs from the Node 2i are bit perfect.Some processing is going on in there before the digital output. Otherwise, how to explain the extreme (in my system, to my ears) similarity of Node 2i internal DAC and Qut... | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC jazzman7 I've always been a cable sceptic, but this might send me down that rabbit hole. Got a digital coax cable you recommend? | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC ddude003, Thanks, I’ve tried that. With (manual) level balancing, still same SQ. Both very good, but from past experience with Qutest vs other DACs I would expect the FPGA 'Chord sound’ from it compared to a more standard Burr-Brown implementation... | |
| Physically connect a Bluesond Node 2i to a downline, stand alone Chord Qutest DAC I have a Node 2i and Qutest and they are hooked up as follows:Node 2i RCA analog out into channel 1 of amp. Node 2i coax/optical digital out into Qutest then RCA analog from Qutest into channel 2 of amp. So I can A/B test.I'm baffled. They both so... |