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| Review: Concert Fidelity CF-080 Preamplifier Teajay: I use a Pass Labs XP 30 with the CF 040 dac. I wanted to know if you had the chance to compare the CF-080 with the Pass since you use the Pass XA60.5 | |
| Digital Audio Denmark convertors Hi Crna39, I think he's using the Minerva in place of the Lynx or any other sound card I think it should be as good or better than a sound card.Best Regards,Satyam Bachani. | |
| Digital Audio Denmark DACs I would like to know whats the best up-sampler one could use to up-sample red book to dsd and feed it to the DAD-AX24?Best Regards,Satyam Bachani. | |
| weiss /Berkeley DAC Roypan, The Weiss after the firmware upgrade to V2-0-1-2 is another machine, I had got mine with V2-0-1-0 and after upgrading it there was a HUGE difference across the spectrum!!I hope when you auditioned it, it was updated!Best Regards,Satyam Bac... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Schwinnindia, The problem is everyone is only using USB 1.0 until now, as Drubin said Empirical Audio is planing on releasing a DAC with USB 2.0!ATM USB 1.0 96/24 MAX.Regards,Satyam Bachani. | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Wish someone from the Industry could chime in on the same! Below is a few threads talking about the same.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread/t-87659.htmlAll conclude its RARE or maybe non-existent to transmit 192K/24Bits on S/PDIF perhaps I2... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Hi Luvwine, A simple test if possible would be to connect a computer with a sound card capable of 24/192 connected to your cary's digital in and stream music via foobar or equivalent @ 192K and see if plays!If it does then yes it works!!Until then... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Hi Alexsee, Yes (single) spdif coax and optical are limited to 96/24 whereas (Dual) AES/EBU maybe spdif too are capable of MAX 176K! Whereas the Minerva is capable on firewire @ 192KHz!!.Other USB dac's that I've seen are mostly capable of 44.1K a... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Hi Drubin, Going forward or even right now with various options available to UP-SAMPLE to 192KHz makes a difference on SQ and eventually when one has a wider collection of software for Hi-Rez PCM it would be essential to have it available on DAC's... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Hi Jonathan, Will the MPD-5 lock @192KHz on the USB Interface/Input with my computer?Best Regards,Satyam Bachani. | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Hi Bombaywalla, I'm doing great! how are things on your end?, Any plans on coming down in the near future?Guys, please can someone tell me if the Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC can lock @ 176KHz?Best Regards,Satyam Bachani. | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Hello, I finally got the DAC since a week, Ive got about 50+ Hours on it.Off the bat the difference between my AA Prestige are;a) I can now UP SAMPLE all my music to 192KHz which in principle is not possible on my AA via COAX.b) To my ears its dar... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Interesting I'm looking forward to getting my Minerva by sometime in Jan (Waiting for it to be shipped) I'm hoping it betters my Audio Aero Prestige!, I'm looking for a DAC only solution that can connect to my server without a sound card. Hopefull... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Thanks for the replies guys, has anyone tried to upsample to 192Khz via foobar or any other playback software? does it accept the 192Khz signal?Regards,Satyam Bachani. | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player Mike, Looking forward to knowing from you the performance of the Music server connected to the player via USB to understand how it compares to the cd-transport of the player.Regards,Satyam Bachani. |