Fatigue free listening

[mevdinc]

In my own experience, the biggest culprit that cause fatigue is generally the room, unless of course, there's something fundamentally wrong with the hifi system itself.
Untreated rooms and badly positioned/placed speakers can create a lot of problems in this regard. 

[mevdinc]

Only some active speakers have DSP or a DAC inside.
I have been listening to my active ATC speakers for over two decades.
I just connect my DAC (with analog volume control) directly to the ATC and enjoy fatigue free sound for hours every day.

[mevdinc]

14 minutes ago, Rexp said:

Do you upsample redbook to DSD using software? 

I have tried both HQ Player and Audirvana to upsample to DSD but I let the DAC do it internally (DSDx2x4), as its hardware upsampling seems to be very good.