Chord Hugo M Scaler - Stereophile Review (measurements also)

[Blumlein 88]

Now just a darned minute. Is that for a spherical Earth ... or a flat Earth?
'cause I read on the internet that the Earth is actually... flat as a pancake.

I can't believe on a science oriented forum you still see this pancake meme. It is not flat as a pancake.

 

[hellboundlex]

Finest outdoor curves I've seen are at the beaches.

Oh yeah, I remember visiting the Oregon coast with the family. The boys were like two, and I had to carry both, at the same time, up and down hundreds of feet of stairs just to hear them cry because the sand was uncomfortable and the "wahhtee" was scary.

Oh wait, you didn't mean hilly beaches. Sorry. I see. Lol.

 

[Mnyb]

The Mola Mola is actually a complete functional DAC . The M scaler replaces partly a part of a DAC that does not really limits DAC’s performance ? Partly , you still got to convert to the DS DAC’s internal 5bit some MHz format , so you can’t really bypass the entirety off this process you simple beggin at a higher input rate .

The Mola Mola DAC can be showed into the same brands preamp , that makes one box less .

dCS do the not have a 3box “solution” to the DAC “problem” . I say Rob is one box short unless there also is an external clock box I missed . Or can we have external psu in shiny box to ?

The original sell them as many boxes as possible con artist is that not naim ? Can you not have monoblocks with external PSU the size of the amp .

 

[hellboundlex]

The original sell them as many boxes as possible con artist is that not naim ? Can you not have monoblocks with external PSU the size of the amp

If your digital path uses less than 1000 watts, you are doing it wrong. To prevent ground loops, each device needs to be isolated. A separate power supply is required for the clock, the reclocker, the scaler, the unscaler, the DAC, the ADC, the DSP system, the ReDAC, and then the +4db dac pre-preamp tube gain system.

Obviously, this needs to be connected by silver interconnects made by eunuchs in the mountains of Colorado to a system that must use at least 50,000 watts of power.

Every components must cost at least $3000.

The system must take at least an hour to turn on, and locate the source of ground loop noise which somehow still makes it in, despite all the miles of cables and isolation devices.

 

[bennetng]

Then maybe we should talk about 32 bit floating point which can have 23 bit resolution with built in gain scaling for our needs.

Actually it has 25 bits of integer precision as illustrated below:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...depth-should-i-set-my-dac-to.8956/post-255104

Not a matter of audibility but some people like to use "32-bit float has 23 bits of mantissa" to defend 24-bit integer formats.

 

[Tks]

Correct. Ok, in theory -300 dB are about 1/10 th of a lightyear. In praxis you can't hear that far because sound does not travel through a vaccum.

You guys think too much

 

[bennetng]

You guys think too much

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ds/what-does-this-actually-do.3818/post-91787

 

[Tks]

@bennetng

 

[20396]

who can send 1 of m scaler to amirm ?

 

[Vini darko]

I'm not an engineer or mathematician, I'm simply curious as to how the M Scaler recovers information lost when the 44.1 digital file was created? If it's lost before it gets to the M Scaler where exactly does the information come from? Then it says in essence it places new musical samples in between, so does it recover or make new samples? Sorry if this is a dumb question it doesn't make sense to me.

Galactic final memory.

 

[Veri]

who can send 1 of m scaler to amirm ?

Already measured at stereophile https://www.stereophile.com/content...ler-upsampling-digital-processor-measurements
It's just an upscaler. You'd have to be out of your mind to pay the RRP for something that upscales your source files, while any proper DAC already oversamples (some up to x256 rate), or you could upsample in software should you want/need to do that...

 

[20396]

 

[Veri]

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What's this? "DSDAC 1.0 DSD AUDIO DAC" ?

How much does it cost look expensive

 

[20396]

What's this? "DSDAC 1.0 DSD AUDIO DAC" ?

How much does it cost look expensive

CEN.GRAND DSDAC1.0

 

[20396]

dCS Vivaldi Upsampler

 

[20396]

 

[BDWoody]

dCS Vivaldi UpsamplerView attachment 84049View attachment 84050View attachment 84051

So, is there a valid use case for this kind of box? Trying to understand why anyone would buy this.

 

[Jimbob54]

So, is there a valid use case for this kind of box? Trying to understand why anyone would buy this.

Cures some of the symptoms of digital nervosa.

 

[Veri]

So, is there a valid use case for this kind of box? Trying to understand why anyone would buy this.

When you upsample 4x or 8x, you get effectively 4x or 8x the samples. The math holds up!

 

[BDWoody]

When you upsample 4x or 8x, you get effectively 4x or 8x the samples. The math holds up!