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I highly doubt that. Even if there was some ambiguity, because the 4490 supports it, the fact that Schiit specs a max sample rate of 192k kinda put it to bed.
Does anybody actually like the look of Schit gear? I don't like the curved top, the exposed edges and what's with the silver finish? Is silver less expensive than black to make?
Manufacturers almost certainly have to pay additional license fees, likely quite a bit in excess of the actual price of the ES9068 itself. (I explained why I think the MQA hardware license fee is around $50 USD in another thread.)
Does anybody actually like the look of Schit gear? I don't like the curved top, the exposed edges and what's with the silver finish? Is silver less expensive than black to make?
Yeah, I'm not sure why they went to micro for some of the DACs. I would have preferred full sized B connector like they have on the multibit modi, and all the other larger DACs, but it seems they went to the micro on all the smaller ones. Probably borrowing from what they did in the smaller DAC/Amp combos like Fulla and Hel.
I got mine about a week ago. Its replacing a Modi 3 I've been using for a year. Sounds great but three oddities that I've noticed:
1) Sometimes it runs off of my phone and sometimes plugging in my phone does nothing until I plug in the power supply. I now leave it plugged into the wall. The Modi 3, while it did drain my phones battery moderately quick, had no issues being powered off of my phone. As a note, the old Modi 3 used a 5v 1a power supply and the 3+ comes with a 5v 2.1a power supply. Seems like the 3+ needs more power than the 3?
2) if using the Android app USB Audio Player Pro you must enable a USB tweak in settings that frees USB bandwidth after playback. Otherwise, playing a standard resolution track then a high-res track will kill the audio from the Modi. The old Modi 3 did not have this issue.
3) if you take a look at your sound settings in windows or foobar it shows up as "Modi 3+________________" like that with a bunch of spaces. Not a big deal but it looks weird.
We gain some performance improvements but also some quirks with the new Modi.
I highly doubt that. Even if there was some ambiguity, because the 4490 supports it, the fact that Schiit specs a max sample rate of 192k kinda put it to bed.
This thread is hard to take with out a big slice of cheese to go with all the whining. A company makes a good sounding piece of equipment for a very fair price and all they get is a lot of garbage because they don't support standards that don't sound any better or even have source material. If you don't like their case, buy some one elses. I kind of like them and mine sounds better than the Smsl and Toppings I bought first as they were both defective. I am sure for 50 or 100 times the price, you can find one that supports things you can't hear and is bigger and uglier.
I'm no expert on this one, but yes, the hability to convert dsd to pcm would be a feature of the transmitter device, a media player, or a software player. I do not think that the usual audio drivers do this (asio, core audio, wasapi, etc) but more research would be needed, I don't really know. a quick google tells me that some fiio players can do this over a spdif connection, maybe some other members have better knowledge. In any case, Yes It would appear to the Schiit DAC as a pcm so it would play, but then why buy a dsd file at all. It's a conversion, it can't be no better than the high res pcm file, and such conversion is likely to leave artefacts or rounding errors. In all case supporting this cannot be a "feature" Of the schiit dac. It's being done upstream, it's a pcm at that point.
I'm no expert on this one, but yes, the hability to convert dsd to pcm would be a feature of the transmitter device, a media player, or a software player. I do not think that the usual audio drivers do this (asio, core audio, wasapi, etc) but more research would be needed, I don't really know. a quick google tells me that some fiio players can do this over a spdif connection, maybe some other members have better knowledge. In any case, Yes It would appear to the Schiit DAC as a pcm so it would play, but then why buy a dsd file at all. It's a conversion, it can't be no better than the high res pcm file, and such conversion is likely to leave artefacts or rounding errors. In all case supporting this cannot be a "feature" Of the schiit dac. It's being done upstream, it's a pcm at that point.
Well if a person already have dsd files and just so happen has a Schiit DAC, just try it. I agree with you perhaps not to buy a new dsd file if one wants to just use a Schiit DAC only.
I'm no expert on this one, but yes, the hability to convert dsd to pcm would be a feature of the transmitter device, a media player, or a software player. I do not think that the usual audio drivers do this (asio, core audio, wasapi, etc) but more research would be needed, I don't really know. a quick google tells me that some fiio players can do this over a spdif connection, maybe some other members have better knowledge. In any case, Yes It would appear to the Schiit DAC as a pcm so it would play, but then why buy a dsd file at all. It's a conversion, it can't be no better than the high res pcm file, and such conversion is likely to leave artefacts or rounding errors. In all case supporting this cannot be a "feature" Of the schiit dac. It's being done upstream, it's a pcm at that point.
Using my Shanling m0 connected to Topping D10 (via usb) playing DSD64, I found that when DSD mode of the m0 is Native or DoP, the display on the D10 would show 2.82(Mhz) and DSD is displayed. When in D2P mode, the D10 display would show 176(kHz) and PCM is shown so I reckon if D2P is used then it would be possible for Schiit DAC to play DSD files albeit via pcm conversion and yes it is not a Schiit feature just a runaround