Popular Post bbosler Posted September 22, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 22, 2021 well, that's another $2300 or so (with tax and shipping) that Chris has "forced" me to spend 😉 I've spent considerable time with many of the top end DACs (DCS Debussy with clock, DCS Rossini with clock, Chord DAVE with external supplies and the Mscaler, PS Audio whatever that was, Denafrips Terminator Plus with Hermes DDC) . After all of these trials I am convinced that the way to judge these DACs is how they make you feel, how well they connect you to the music, how they make you bob your head and tap your feet. Not all the usual audiophile BS that we read in all of the reviews. So we have good news and bad news. Good news.. the Schiit is a contender. It is the type of device that further convinces me that spending mega-bucks on DACs is not required for mega-performance. I have no problem if you want to drop $100K + on a Vivaldi stack and add some $10K cables to it, I'm just saying you don't need to spend that to get superb performance. Bad news.. the Schiit clearly sounds much better being fed by a Mutec MC3+ USB with Mutec REF10 to it's AES input than using the USB input... I am using Roon with HQPlayer >>> ethernet >>>Jussi recommended Atom NAA >>> USB >>> Mutec >>> AES >>> Schiit so open to the possibility that a different configuration for the USB, a different server, a different USB cable, etc. might level the field, but as is, NAA >>> USB >>> Schiit is clearly inferior to adding in the Mutec gear. I know I am adding $6K of re-clocking gear to a $2K DAC. Oh well, a man has to do what a man has to do.... My vinyl rig has always been my reference but this is as close as I've gotten. Happy for now and we're only a few hours in.... hoping it gets even better Exocer, feelingears, Superdad and 1 other 2 2 see my system at Audiogon https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/768 Link to comment
bbosler Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 5 hours ago, R1200CL said: It’s “interesting” that in your opinion or system Schiit hasn’t been able to make a proper USB interface. Hope I understand you correctly. That may be a bit strong. I haven't done anything to optimize the USB input and my experience is limited. I haven't spent enough time with it to be definitive so it is too early to come to that strong of a conclusion. see my system at Audiogon https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/768 Link to comment
bbosler Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 48 minutes ago, feelingears said: Currently using an older Auralic Aries streamer with its better LPS. I'd prefer to put an Uptone power supply on it but the voltage doesn't match I don't know what the Auralic requires but Uptone can adjust their high end supply to voltages other than those listed on their website feelingears 1 see my system at Audiogon https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/768 Link to comment
bbosler Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 41 minutes ago, fas42 said: An example: the phone rings, and you just don't hear it, because your mind is concentrating on other sounds, right at that minute. Depends on what you mean by "hear it," We have a grandfather clock that rings the hour and once on the half hour... I'm sure I "hear it" in the sense that my brain receives the input from my ears, but my brain ignores it so I rarely "hear it" in the sense that I consciously register it. not really sure how that fits into this conversation but I like to participate 😉 Superdad 1 see my system at Audiogon https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/768 Link to comment
bbosler Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Since this thread hasn't had any activity for over a week I hope I am not out of line by mentioning I have one for sale at US Audio Mart ? They are back ordered 10 -12 weeks as of today.. Please delete this if I am out of bounds see my system at Audiogon https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/768 Link to comment
bbosler Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 24 minutes ago, Gavin1977 said: I guess you use your EMM Labs DAC for upsampled sources ( my best experience with EMM was to feed it the data unaltered. It up samples to a high DSD rate internally, which may or may not have anything to do with what I heard, but it seemed a bit more relaxed if I didn't up sample in front of it. Perhaps my up sample choices were not ideal since HQP has a pretty much unlimited number of combinations and I surely didn't try more than a small subset of them. see my system at Audiogon https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/768 Link to comment
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