FORGETTING the Digital to Analog conversion part, what is BEST Digital source?

[rafa]

On 4/7/2018 at 9:54 PM, *progear said:

Most of these have I2S pins available

What micromedia card you talking about exactly?

[rafa]

I am testing Micromedia Digimedia DIO XLR  with Dante protocol since yesterday and first impression is - that never heard so smooth and analog sounding, digital music.

 

Yes, limitation to 96kHz is annoying. Also as necessity of switching sampling rate in dante controller for the file/album we want listen.

I will try resampling to keep one sample rate for everything and will see if wont loose some SQ during process.

I tried upsampling to DSD before and wasn't happy with result. At the begin I was impressed. But after a while I found lost of micro details.

Maybe resampling to 96PCM wont be bad solution. But first listening impression with simple 44kHz is very promising.

 

And at the end of the day quality of the records matter, more then file sample rate.

[rafa]

I am using separate Intel LAN card already. Is no doubt superior to integrated one. And the difference is not just subtle, is quit significant.

 

Upsampling unfortunate brings SQ lost and I am not so happy to do that.