When I saw the poor pink panther I knew something was up. It's a sad story, I feel sorry for those that paid so much for it. Even if they do think it was worth it.
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Review and Measurements of Totaldac d1-six DAC
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It maxes out at 4x.
Paraphrasing Voltaire : If ASR didn’t exist it should be invented. Not too many times in the history of the hobby have we had a website that can teach us so much and help us get the best and most accurate reproduction for reasonable to meager cash outlays.
Thanks Amir! “We needed that!”
P. A. Not too long ago, I did seriously consider a variant of this abomination.
Thanks Amir! “We needed that!”
P. A. Not too long ago, I did seriously consider a variant of this abomination.
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I don't have HQ Player but could try upsampling in Roon....
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The owner is in surprisingly good spirits! Come to think of it, every owner who has gotten poor reviews has taken it in stride.
I think if you just run some AP tests at higher sampling rates we'll know enough.
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This might explain why it looks better than what the dashboard would suggest.
I looked at totaldac because it gets reviewed listening only and gets praise. But when I looked at the site its very wonky and no spec's graphs that give you idea of its performance. Which considering its a NOS dac I get that but he would be like PeterST xxhighend who makes NOS dac and makes software for it upsample x16 rates so you can get top notch performance. I been looking for a new DAC for a while but very hesitant considering I currently use the benchmark DAC2 HGC with latest firmware I have had the DAC since 2012. It still sounds great and has the spec's to prove it.
The higher the better, but x4 is enough if the rest of the design is up to snuff. Here most likely there are other underlying issues that no amount of oversampling can fix.
I'm guessing the owner is not Rafe Arnott or Michael Lavorgna.
Not the same upsampling as HQP and it depends if you send PCM or dsd, and dither and filters and source content played
If you have the desire and a spare PC... HQ Player Embedded is free for 30 minutes at a time and comes in a form of a bootable flash drive image and the embedded version supports input devices, so you could feed it from the AP's digital output which would provide an opportunity for some interesting tests of DACs like this and in general.
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Stupid money can't fix stupid. But everyone here already knows that.
Single end direct heated triodes baby! LOL!
This DAC is for those who want a NOS design; can one be found for way less $$$$ absolutely! This type of DAC will never spec like a chip based SDM period. NOS are meant to be paired with a CPU/software that can do the job better than a DAC chip based design. This is all preference and debatable or course.
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It is really sad how many people are fooled in the audio world. I have been to this years biggest audio show in Munich, the "High-End". Atleast 50% of the shown stuff were special cables and other questionable stuff. The people there actually loved it
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I mean that cable does look damn good.
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