Maybe a somewhat objective argument can be made against the use of a serifed font for its display?But that's someting completely subjective,not suited for ASR style.
Maybe a somewhat objective argument can be made against the use of a serifed font for its display?But that's someting completely subjective,not suited for ASR style.
Agree.Think of it like a typical internal sound card (without the extra goodie's like mic-in,headphone output and optical which is almost the standard) but external and with a better SINAD (if balanced),nothing more.
That and the of-axis left button.The later could explode my OCD sky-high!Maybe a somewhat objective argument can be made against the use of a serifed font for its display?
DoP not needed. Direct native DSD supported. Mac or PC.This thing only has USB input. So basically either Multi channel PCM or multi channel DSD DoP with this thing plug on a PC or Mac I assume.
Dunno but I've got a few thousand of them. Lately, the majority are from downloads.Then how much legit muti-channel sources out there to make that happen?
It does not play ISOs but you can extract the DSD from the ISOs off-line or, if the upstream player supports, you can extract them in real-time while playing.Feels like it's targeting people that some how "find" a bunch of multi-channel DSF/DST/DSD-iso files.
Wow, really? Where did you read that native DSD was supported on the Mac? This is relatively rare, and from what I understand requires a custom driver, which few manufacturers provide for the Mac (exaSound being one exception from what I gather).Direct native DSD supported. Mac or PC.
Following. I Can't see any practical application for this product.Please excuse my ignorance but what or how would an 8 channel DAC be used?
This question has been asked several times in this thread and a number of use cases have been given, so have a blast reading the thread.Following. I Can't see any practical application for this product.
Following. I Can't see any practical application for this product.
DoP not needed. Direct native DSD supported. Mac or PC.
Wow, really? Where did you read that native DSD was supported on the Mac? This is relatively rare, and from what I understand requires a custom driver, which few manufacturers provide for the Mac (exaSound being one exception from what I gather).
Unless I am missing something, this device is perfect for your application.I've got a music room with a multichannel setup. It's not a movie room. I have several hundred discs of multichannel music, on SACD, DVD-A and Bluray. They're all ripped into Roon, and all in either multichannel PCM FLAC or multichannel DSD format.
I think all the people talking about Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD are confused - those are lossless PCM compression formats. They convert to FLAC quite easily as part of ripping - and I rip every disc I own. You only need decoding if you want to stick a physical disc in a player every time you want to listen to an album, or are streaming Netflix video - neither of which I'm doing.
I can stream those multichannel albums (ripped from audio Blurays, DVD-As, SACDs, stored on my music server as regular multichannel FLAC or DSD files) directly to this device via a Roon bridge and enjoy them all in surround, for half the price of an AVR, without the video features that I don't need (this is for music, not video), with a much better DAC than I'd get from an AVR. That's useful.
Sure, I can do that with an AVR too, but I pay about 2x as much, for usually subpar amps, often dodgy DAC implementations, and a bunch of HDMI/video switching/decoding I don't need.
I do all the DSP (via REW measurements) and crossovers in Roon too - so again, why pay twice as much for an AVR (or way more for separates/prepros) with worse performance and features I don't need in "hardware" because I can do them better in software?
This + a decent Buckeye or similar is the cheapest and best way to do multichannel audio if you already have a modern, all digital setup and a collection of multichannel music - everything that needs doing is done before the DAC gets the stream, and the DAC can be pretty "dumb".
It's a very flexible, modern and convenient setup, and lets me put the money into speakers and amps, where it ought to go.
Brilliant setup and I want to do the same. I have Audirvana instead of JRiver but it is still possibleYou would please refer to my previous post #272 here on this thread.
My setup with OCTO DAC8PRO is like these two diagrams; please note that only one (single) USB 2.0 cable connecting PC to DAC8PRO.
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Apparently, HQPlayer can apply complex DSP without converting to PCM.About DSD (either stereo or multichannel):
I hope you know that no DSP applies to it unless is converted,either before or real-time by the player.
So,no use for it specially if you have a software crossover which will either convert DSD>PCM before playing or worst will cancel DSP crossover if it's done by foobar for example (haven't try if Jriver warns you about it).
I always tease my friends playing the same song in DSD and then PCM that changes sound because the Mathaudio DSP doesn't apply so no EQ.
But will not be funny if it cancel crossover for example.
I hope everyone will test all that before applying,some things are accidents waiting to happen.
That's good to know.Apparently, HQPlayer can apply complex DSP without converting to PCM.
About DSD (either stereo or multichannel):
I hope you know that no DSP applies to it unless is converted,either before or real-time by the player.