Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital: MQA HW decoding at reasonable cost

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new here, but have been eyeballing the s2 for some time now.

just got one delivered yesterday, and so far , so good.

only a handful of hours on it , but it is going to be a very resolving dac to say the least.

ill report back when i get it loosened up a bit more.

awsome place here btw guys... glad i stumbled up on it looking on reviews on this s2 !

 

tc for now...

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9 hours ago, left channel said:

@nodoubt welcome! What firmware version is in your device? Press the "Menu" button, then press the down arrow button twice.

thanks for the welcome  LC !

its the latest 2.12.....  that was the first thing i checked.

wish i had the nerve to open it up and see about those pink caps.

yall got me worried now !

i may do it in a few days after i get it broke in good.

i can tell you this..ive went thru the smsl m8, with ess chip...too bright

then the emotiva pt-100....nice build, features, but was lacking in depth

then cambridge dac magic plus....which i still have and am getting ready to send back..

it is a very musical box, nice and warm sounding, but is no where as resolving and transparent as this new s2 box.

i just got finished a-b testing both of these back to back, and when i went to the cambridge, it sounded like i threw a blanket over my speakers in comparison.....

actually hope this thing will mellow out a tad when good and broke in ?

any thoughts on that ?

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didnt know if you guys knew about this place.

this guy has tested alot of dacs, and really gets down to the nuts and bolts on his testing

good review on the s2 here...

 

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-pro-ject-pre-box-s2-digital.2370/

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teardown here

 

 

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/hardware-teardown-of-pro-ject-pre-box-s2-digital-dac.2393/#post-67549

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On 4/6/2018 at 11:34 AM, left channel said:

@nodoubt yes we know about him. I'm no automatic defender of this product, but he clearly does not have experience in test design nor in using his test equipment, and his results are often different from that of people I respect. Nobody else has been able to reproduce his results with the Distortion Compensation setting, for example.

oops, sry...  didnt mean to stir up old beef...

i thought he gave it a pretty positive review.

mine has really impressed me so far after a handful of days.

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7 hours ago, left channel said:

I stand by my comments, which are based on professional experience. Doesn't matter to me whether a review is mostly positive or not.

im very new here, so im totally lost.

who is the reviewer your talking about?
i just love to see all reviews and learn all i can.

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wow, this fell off quick huh....