There seems to be an abundance of mis info on this topic. Some have suggested in posts that this thing upsamples. Other posts say no way. Can some one explain what is happening when I switch from ext synch on this thing to 88.2 ( the *2 setting ). Any help is appreciated.

I went through the same decision, wanted portability but killer sound. I bought the cosmic with the base station for the vastly increased power supply argument. I am very staisfied with this set up. Don't know about the max's blacker blacks and all that stuff, all I know is I get great sound...

I own a Shanling CD-S100 which decodes HDCD's. I am adding an outboard DAC soon, a ART DIO. Will I be losing HDCD decoding?

I recently saw a ad for the CD player I own, the Shanling CD-S100. ( I think it is the Chinese version of the Music Hall unit ) It stated that this unit upsampled the standard CD to better bit rates. Is this true? 2nd Question. If I buy a ART DIO, does this unit upsample or strictly take the...

After reviewing the available HDCD's at the following link, http://www.hdcd.com/music_catalog/welcome.asp I ordered Hall & Oates Abanadoned Luncheonette from Amazon. I have since received the CD and it is NOT a HDCD. I have 2 more YES Cd's coming right behind them and now have my doubts...

It sounds like there may be more Japanese imports with HDCD than we have here in US. I would appreciate any links which you folks have for ordering HDCD's. I have found the ones on the HDCD site, the "microsoft site " but there has to be more, that list is pretty short.

I have gotten myself all worked up about maybe trading my headroom supreme for a Antique Sound Lab MG Head. After several days of listening however, i would miss the crossfeed. makes it MUCH easier to listen for long periods. Without the crossfeed, my listening time drops big time due to...