Hey all,
Got this DAC (Tempotec Serenade idsd) used to connect to a roon machine from one side and a tube pre on the other.
There is not one but two issues, which have made me look into getting another DAC.
1.) audio drop-outs on certain songs at specific parts of the song (unrelated to buffering, as songs play from the NAS on the roon machine fine with any other audio device on the system and also locally ).
I also tried the DAC on multiple other systems. Happens only with 96khz and 192khz files and only with some of them, but converting these did not help, so not sire what gives.
2.) Some and I stress that not all DSD files have their left and right channels swapped.
I play native DSD, but it is the same with DOP obviously and basically unless converting to PCM this is not resolved.
I know I can use dsp in Roon to fix this, but it is too cpu intensive for this machine and obviously not bit-perfect.
Both issues have been confirmed with foobar as well and with both ASIO and Wasapi.
Basically I see no way of fixing these issues, just when I got the system to sound like I want it to - dac, pre, tubes, integrated, speakers.... (obviously not forever but was planning to use it at the moment). Drivers did not solve any of the issues and there are no fw updates.
So if unsolvable I would like to get the system to sound as close as possible.
Thinking of topping e30 II when available or IFI zen dac 2 or SMSL sanskrit mkii (the Tempotec has akm 4490 and mine has a burr-brown opamp). I am a fan of DSD, so would like to get a DAC with native capabilities and I am an AKM fan.
Any recommendations?
Can you please recommend a fix or a new DAC, I am connecting to a Tube pre (xduuo ta-26) so I don't want to get it sounding too warm, but my speakers are revealing, so balancing things is tricky.
Thanks
Got this DAC (Tempotec Serenade idsd) used to connect to a roon machine from one side and a tube pre on the other.
There is not one but two issues, which have made me look into getting another DAC.
1.) audio drop-outs on certain songs at specific parts of the song (unrelated to buffering, as songs play from the NAS on the roon machine fine with any other audio device on the system and also locally ).
I also tried the DAC on multiple other systems. Happens only with 96khz and 192khz files and only with some of them, but converting these did not help, so not sire what gives.
2.) Some and I stress that not all DSD files have their left and right channels swapped.
I play native DSD, but it is the same with DOP obviously and basically unless converting to PCM this is not resolved.
I know I can use dsp in Roon to fix this, but it is too cpu intensive for this machine and obviously not bit-perfect.
Both issues have been confirmed with foobar as well and with both ASIO and Wasapi.
Basically I see no way of fixing these issues, just when I got the system to sound like I want it to - dac, pre, tubes, integrated, speakers.... (obviously not forever but was planning to use it at the moment). Drivers did not solve any of the issues and there are no fw updates.
So if unsolvable I would like to get the system to sound as close as possible.
Thinking of topping e30 II when available or IFI zen dac 2 or SMSL sanskrit mkii (the Tempotec has akm 4490 and mine has a burr-brown opamp). I am a fan of DSD, so would like to get a DAC with native capabilities and I am an AKM fan.
Any recommendations?
Can you please recommend a fix or a new DAC, I am connecting to a Tube pre (xduuo ta-26) so I don't want to get it sounding too warm, but my speakers are revealing, so balancing things is tricky.
Thanks