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I was able to buy the 400 ES at a good price on Black Friday. I use the Fast-Linear PCM filter without Sound Color and the sound of classical solo piano recordings, which is very important to me, is really convincing. I'm currently listening to a lot of recordings from Glenn Gould's Remastered...

Many thanks to all of you for your answers. I am indeed very happy with the sound of my current S.M.S.L DO300Ex, but as this is my first DAC from the Far East, I was a bit worried about the durability. :)

Hello everyone, as a new owner of an SMSL DO300EX, I am “tormented” by the question of whether I would have been better off buying an SMSL D400EX if the service life and freedom from interference of such a device is important to me. Of course, the expensive DAC contains twice the converter chip...

Thank you for your answer, although the linked article refers more to an ESS chip? I am also very satisfied with the sound of the DO300EX so far. As I own a lot of music in DSD format, the settings there are important to me. What really surprised me was the clearly audible noise in the DSD...

Hello everyone, a few settings on my new DAC continue to puzzle me, which the manual and some internet research have not been able to resolve. DSD filters are narrow and wide. Are these simple low pass filters, in which case it would be advisable to use the narrow filter to suppress any high...

You all were right - I had to install the SMSL driver additionally and everything seems to work. But one thing irritates me. Although the DO300EX plays my DSD 512 files correctly, it only displays 11.2896 MHz sampling rate, which is only DSD 256. My project correctly displays DSD 512. Both...

I would only use the DACs individually. The headphone amplifier in my old Project DAC in particular is a bit weak, hence the SMSL. The sound via RCA on my hi-fi system is actually very good. Since I purchased many albums of classical music in DSD, I need the ASIO driver via USB for playback in...

Ok. - Thanks.

Many thanks to both of you - hopefully the Amazon courier will deliver the whole thing tomorrow. :) Best regards from Germany

Hello everyone, As the owner of a Project S2 Digital DAC, I have installed the ASIO driver 5.68.0 from Project under Windows 11. Now I would like to connect the SMSL DO300EX I ordered too. The XMOS_USBAudio_v5.68.0 driver is offered on the manufacturer's website. Somehow it seems to be the same...

Thank you very much - I will test this, but then I can no longer play DSD files natively and would have to convert them to PCM in the SACD plugin, or am I wrong?

Thank you very much - I will have a look at this, looks very promising.

No, the hardware is completely identical. However, I have already achieved an improvement with Foobar by switching off all Windows system sounds and also activating the "Do Not Disturb" mode in Windows 11. Now I can also hear longer passages in Foobar without interference. However, I have never...

Hello and thank you for the tip - but unfortunately this does not work at all in my configuration. If I set the total buffer in Foobar to 120ms, all I hear is noise. All tone control is switched off and a high-quality short Audioquest USB cable establishes the connection between PC and DAC.

Hello everyone, Unfortunately, I have been having a very annoying and probably not easy to solve problem with the native playback of DSD files via Foobar and my external DAC (Pre Box S2 Digital) connected via USB. My configuration: Windows 11 Asus Strix X570-E board AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT Foobar...

Thank you to "Berwhale" and "voodooless" - I will have a look at it at my leisure.

In fact, I really like the sound of the Project - and my thoughts about buying a new DAC are probably a throwback to my youth where I also kept buying new and more expensive CD players in the hope of getting a better sound. However, that only really worked once, when I bought a CD player with...

Thanks to all of you here - I was a little afraid that I would be verbally stoned with such a question as the first post. :DThe tone here in the forum is really very good.

Thanks to you too - that's reassuring news. :)

Thank you for the assessment. In fact, I had only recently set the distortion compensation feature to "on", which is also recommended here in the review, and after reading the blog addictedtoaudio.com.au/blogs/how-to/how-to-pick-the-best-filter-setting-for-your-dac set the filter to "Fast Roll...