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| SPDIF splitter I would call Sweetwater. If anyone has what you are looking for it will be them | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Okay, regarding the Soulnote D-2. I brought this unit in having never heard a Soulnote product but multiple people had said it is THE brand and in a year, it will be noteworthy. So, it arrived quickly. It is heavy. The box is over 40 lbs. Unit lo... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @azwill I haven’t purchased and tested an MPS-X yet. I have been extremely happy with K50 before and now Oladra performance with my Playback. I would be unsurprised if the MPS-X takes it up a level. The only challenge is that you do need a s... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @klh007 I have the D-2. You can add an external 10MHz Clock but it is not required. The D-3 requires the clock but is $30k combined and in completely difference class of DACs. @yyzsantabarbara i will try but I don’t have gear here for the fi... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @yyzsantabarbara - so, I can test the X1 output. I am not using PLink. Just USB vs Ethernet. I did AB testing with the X1, the Soulnote and the MPD-6. I had two of the three connected to my preamp at at time. Both connected to my Oladra, X1 v... | |
| Bricasti Model 1 Series II DAC Upgrades are between end user and Bricasti. My customer did not share how long the upgrade took so I don’t know. Maybe another user here has upgraded. | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend So the Lumin X1 came in to me from a friendly dealer who has one and allowed me to spend some time with it. The X1 is a hefty unit with an outboard power supply, has a built-in volume control and is a full-fledged streamer with Lumin producing ... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend So...I have been in the process of re-basing our DAC knowledge base as the system has finally been forced to change. Very simply, the Vivid Kaya 45s are sold and with that departure, I figured I ought to move to my new reference system for purpos... | |
| Bricasti Model 1 Series II DAC I am a Bricasti dealer and when customers contact me about upgrading from the original DSD, Bricasti is regularly where they land. I have not heard the new V2 yet but I do have a customer who has upgraded and has said it is better than the M1 SE ... | |
| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? There are a lot of speakers that can compete. Not sure if they will be fundamentally better but will be different. MBL and Avantgarde have radicaly different designs at the high end that could easily compete. In terms of raw engineering, I wo... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Yes. Not in the same league. It drifts a hair brighter. The image is smaller and the level of detail is not quite in the same league. Very simply, the output stage can’t deliver the way the MPD-6 or MPD-8 can. That being said, you know it is ... | |
| Will a Chord Hugo 2 make a music streamer addition obsolete? If you add a 2Go to your Hugo 2, it will add a functional streamer that serves as a roon end-point, accepts external storage, etc... That said, you can add any streamer to the Hugo 2 but the 2Go is an elegant and portable solution. Full disclo... | |
| Best Direction/Product Combo DAC/Streamer @sgreg1 i have not tried that app. Thanks for the tip. I will find it and see how much better it is. | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @simao I have tested dozens of DACs ranging from the Khadas Tone 2 up to the dCS Rossini w/ Clock. All DACs are a trade off between detail, image size (height/width) and depth. Almost all of these DACs offer some coloration or interpretation o... | |
| Best Direction/Product Combo DAC/Streamer If you are looking for true streamer DAC - Naim, Lumin, Aurender, Auralic and HiFi rose are likely all good options. They all make software that works really well. Their are tons of units that have "streaming capability" but they rely on MConnec... |