Popular Post skatbelt Posted October 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 28, 2022 9 hours ago, George Hincapie said: Fred, If one is not interested in upsampling at all and instead prefers to play digital files 'as is' does the MU1 offer SQ improvements for that use case in comparison to competing solutions? I think the MU1 (and other dedicated music servers) is best understood from a technical perspective. Computers in general are noisy. In the MU1, an attempt has been made to keep this to a minimum by means of a combination of (bare bone) hardware and proprietary software. Much attention has been paid to the power supply, isolating the incoming Ethernet signal and bypassing USB as a connection to the DAC. Add to that state of the art clocking (the area Grimm is famous for) and you reach a completely different level than can be achieved with a standard computer like a Mac. The upsampling is just a bonus. But is does something special in my eyes, something I've never heard from any HQPlayer configuration. It is more similar to Chord M-Scaler territory. HQPlayer is a very good 'bang for the buck' though. FredM, PYP and pmorali 3 Streamer dCS Network Bridge DAC Chord DAVE Amplifier / DRC Lyngdorf TDAI-3400 Speakers Lindemann BL-10 | JL audio E-sub e110 Head-fi and reference Bakoon HPA-21 | Audeze LCD-3 (f) Power and isolation Dedicated power line | Xentek extreme isolation transformer (1KVA, balanced) | Uptone Audio EtherREGEN + Ferrum Hypsos | Sonore OpticalModule + Uptone Audio UltraCap LPS-1.2 | Jensen CI-1RR Cables Jorma Digital XLR (digital), Grimm Audio SQM RCA (analog), Kimber 8TC + WBT (speakers), custom star-quad with Oyaide connectors (AC), Ferrum (DC) and Ghent (ethernet) Software dCS Mosaic | Tidal | Qobuz Link to comment
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