Article: High End Munich 2016 In Words

[The Computer Audiophile]

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[The Computer Audiophile]

Chris, thanks for the update.

Looking forwad to that review!

 

PS - unfortunately, you say nothing about the beer...maybe on another review?

Germany is full of beer and beef. Unfortunately I don't partake in either :~(

[The Computer Audiophile]

If Munich is the best show you've attended so far, I am curious about how you'd find the shows in Hong Kong, Singapore and China or Japan.

Hi YashN - I talked to several people who have been to shows in those locations and they say Munich is the best. That said, I'd love to attend one of the Asian shows if it's really good. I went to the Korean show several years ago, but it was pretty small.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Chris, I enjoyed your Munich report as I always do. The Brinkmann Nyquist sounds somewhat analogous, though not entirely, in its modular approach to Vinnie Rossi's LIO system. Likewise, the Sound Galleries Music Server doing a large measure of the filtering outside the DAC sounds like a DSD equivalent to what Peter St has been doing entirely on the PCM side with his XX High End software for years.

 

Esau

Very similar. They are using Miska's HQPlayer.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Guys - It's my understanding that a firmware update to many USB receiver chips can enable native DSD at higher rates than 128 on Linux.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Vandersteen speakers. (Do you remember which model?)

 

This sentence popped out at me:

 

 

 

Just thinking about this in the context of various USB add-ons.

Here is a list of the components in that system. (Vandersteen 5A carbon).

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

It's quite well explained IMO. What is surprising to me is that in your write-up you seem to be asking this question and learning the answer just now, when we've been saying that same thing for years on your forum itself

 

Enjoy Europe.

I've been following it since 2008, but for some reason I always blew it off :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Ajax - So true. Change!!!

 

Love your story. Please align your trip with the show next year. I'd love to meet and share stories. Yours of sailing, mine of audio. Yours will be much better I'm sure :~)

[The Computer Audiophile]

MSB says they do 80bit processing for a few years now.

I believe Metric Halo has been doing it for a while too.