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| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship @debjit_g Check with @audioman58 , I purchased Gaia from Paul, he may be able to set you up with something, also got some consideration on the Tubulus I2S cable. I just got notification on the Laiv, unfortunately only Femto clock, still could be... | |
| DDC Recomendations I have Denafrips Gaia, also confused as to whether clock inputs work for any external clock. In any case I don't feel the need for any further clocking in my setup, sync/slaved to the fine OXCO clock in Gaia provides me with a wonderful analog/vin... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Oh, and I forgot about Evo version of my JCAT XE Netcard, even further behind the curve! Like I keep on saying, streaming is evolving fast and furious, kind of fun, interesting, but frustrating at the same time. | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship My Gaia is 12th or latest version, seems I recall reading something about minor improvements. Often times manufacturers improve things in ongoing basis, may not mention this and/or designate as new version or model. All equipment subject to on... | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? HDMI isn't really the correct terminology for audio only use. Yes, the connectors are HDMI, the cable itself needs only be I2S, this means only 8 pins actually wired, the rest are superfluous for audio only. Plenty of nice audio only I2s cables ou... | |
| Six DAC Comparison By the way, being a curious person I decided to purchase Okto Dac some years ago, believe it held record at ASR for SNR at the time, one of the lowest jitter as well. And I owned Musetec 005 at the same time, relative poor measuring dac over there... | |
| Six DAC Comparison I've seen Golden Sound's measurements, also ASR, another instance of measurements not telling you the true story. According to ASR $1k dacs are right up there with state of art, and dacs don't benefit from ddc. Sound quality is the final arbiter f... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @mitch2 I previously owned Singxer SU6, this with Musetec 005, preferred usb over my OpticalRendu vs I2S with the Singxer. Now have Denafrips Gaia with Tubulus Ximius .5M cable, prefer I2S vs usb for both Laiv Harmony and Musetec 006. This with a... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship I have no doubt the laptop streamer would sound better with ddc. I'm just questioning whether the $1800 would be better spent on better streamer. That based on my reasoning that stopping contamination upstream is preferable to downstream. Hmm,... | |
| Would a DDC (Denafrips Iris) improve my system? I purchased my Gaia through @audioman58 | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship Streaming is a very good word for this method of transmitting music in that one can make a very good analogy to a stream of water, any contamination upstream will affect water downstream. I've found clocking extremely important for network, us... | |
| Should I add a DDC? I2S cables should be kept as short as possible, .5M or shorter best. I2S was never designed to transmit via cable such that theoretical best position for clock is just prior to I2S path in dac. Ed Meitner of EMM Labs explains this issue for those ... | |
| Should I add a DDC? Number of issues on purchasing ddc for I2S. Very few streamers offer I2S output so in these cases ddc required for using I2S. Another concern is quality of clocks in ddc vs dac. If dac internal clock is equal to or better than ddc clock you're not... | |
| First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship I've optimized every single thing in my streaming setup from modem to dac, every single piece of equipment (each piece has been comparison tested vs others) using lps, top flight cabling (also comparison tested) which means ethernet, optical usb, ... | |
| Six DAC Comparison Rockna, Mola Mola Tambaqui couple more dacs with I2S. |