Imagine someone came out with such a DAC that included (full stereo) bass management and DIRAC Live room correction (possibly with full DIRAC Live Bass Control) integrated? Just add power amps (for the speakers)! Closest thing is Zidoo's own Luxsin X9, but it lacks DIRAC.
Marantz M1
You don’t have to imagine there are an increasing number of active loudspeakers that have all that.
I have an M1! It is a digital amplifier (straight PCM->PWM, no analog stage whatsoever), and the bass management, though it is sufficient for my use, is extremely lacking in functionality (can't set crossover in proper increments, only options for my system are 80Hz and 40Hz, so I use 80Hz because my subwoofer behaves better in my room in the 40-80Hz band than my speakers do, but I would prefer 70Hz if Marantz would just add that through firmware or something). I am extremely happy with its performance, especially once DIRAC calibrated, but I cannot find any proper objective test results on its performance. I went for it primarily because I did at least read that they utilized global feedback to achieve neutral response (similar to the PFFB circuit on TPA3225-based amps), unlike older digital amp designs like the VTV or Peachtree GAN-1 amps where they even tout the lack of feedback like some sort of an advantage (ridiculous!).
Certainly, but I am happy with my speakers and would not want to change them (MoFi SourcePoint 8, which got great results with Erin from his audio corner). Same goes for my subwoofer (Rythmik L12, which Amir himself has tested to good results). The system sounds stellar to me in my highly suboptimal room.
I've had exactly one and only one, "issue," with T8, and that is that, with one of my NVMe drives, I am neither able to delete/modify files on it in the UI itself or over SMB, nor am I able to format the drive within the unit/UI (in an attempt to fix the issues with the drive). Yet, on my second NVMe drive, everything works perfectly. So one could potentially argue that it is potentially an issue with the drive and not the T8. I did not get a chance to compare the partition format between the two drives and the unit is not in my hands at this point (gave it to my dad).
RTFM is a good advice, especially for those who don't know much about stuff they're selling or promoting!
www.puriteaudio.co.uk
Colourless dry transparent with no flavour. Sounds exactly like a 200$ Topping or SMSL...
Contemporary active bi/tri-amped speakers like Genelec with GLM room correction, all have DSP inside witch implies sample rate conversion to the fixed resolution of that DSP. Even if you don't use room correction, DSP is active for digital crossover duties.
As usual a wine analogy done wrong.Colourless dry transparent with no flavour. Sounds exactly like a 200$ Topping or SMSL...
It sounds to me that you have grown accustomed to being lied to and now actually enjoy it.Colourless dry transparent with no flavour. Sounds exactly like a 200$ Topping or SMSL...
But it only costs $1300, a bargainColourless dry transparent with no flavour. Sounds exactly like a 200$ Topping or SMSL...
16bit value (just an example) was a mistake and it's corrected now. But there were some, even professional DSP processors working at 24/96...
