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Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
From Sonore web: PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONThe Sonore Sonic Orbiter is an audiophile PCM, DSD/DoP and native DSD capable music renderer with Ethernet input and SotM USB or SPDIF/analog output.Your PC (you already have PC correct?) has Ethernet input and ... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
Fsmithjack, Yes, SOtM is just ordinary PCIe card so you're good to go as long as you have available PCIe slot in your PC. One note tough, make sure you connect internal PSU from PC to card regardless of fact that you're going to use external batte... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
1. Try SOtM tX-USBexp Audiophile PCIe to USB Audio Card / SOtM mBPS-d2s Intelligent Battery Power Supply. This is the best USB playback I have heard and it works flawlessly. I am using this for about a year now and never had a dropped connection. ... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
Filter 0 is no filter at all according to Bricasti...I prefer it also but is it safe, since all hi-frequency noise which can be louder that signal itself on DSD is passed downstream to pre/amp/speakers. This could potentially damage the tweeters o... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
Coli, I didn’t have a chance to hear any of modern NOS designs although I remember well sound of the first CD players from 80s that were NOS by nature. They were bright and narrow sounding but it was something about speed and immediacy in the way ... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
Fsmithjack,Let’s not mix up-sampling with oversampling. Oversampling is always performed in synchronous mode and keeps original signal intact, at least every 8th sample (8x oversampling) will be original.Up-sampling is in most cases implemented in... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
Hi Fsmithjack, and others, happy owner of Bricasti M1 for two years now here.I haven’t been reading a lot on this topic since I bought M1 a year ago, you guess, I was listening to music instead. I upgraded from Bryston BDA-1 and without going into...