Well darn. Now that it exists I need to go ahead and consider $200 spent. Curious what it does, though.

Maybe initial sales from a cheap and simple pitch shifter will ultimately pay for an auto-temperament autotune device with proper delay and scale / key autodetection. how to accommodate intentional dissonance while fixing out of tune instruments is beyond me. I just don't see the pitch shifting...

Poppycock. If that's all it does, and it does it well, then A: You will hear no difference whatsoever and B: It won't require the manual adjustment mentioned. C: Dr. Ivana would not have been hired. Therefore it must be more than just a pitch shifter. Bob Marley's three little birds. John...

There are plenty of recordings available at C=256, no need to wait in order to hear for yourself. I also trust his tech, I just suspect/hope there's more to it than as yet revealed.

If it's simply and only a very good pitch shifter, I honestly don't get the point. I don't buy into the mystical nonsense, and I am confident there are no skingasms as a result. If it restores or aligns time + frequency domain relationships of fundamentals, overtones, and harmonics, then I'm all...

slides and vibrato disappear only on more aggressive autotune settings. I also would hope the gadget does not do that, either.

Reading again, this sounds like an autotune for complex signals. Those words in bold can be found in most autotune manuals!

Some conjecture on this gadget thing. Consider four performances with Chris Thile playing mandoline. 1. Live, A=440hz 2. Recorded and reproduced, A=440hz 3. Live, C=256hz 4. Recorded and reproduced, C=256hz They may all be very nice, but I'm going to say the two live performances are going to...

I really have to imagine that c=256 is more a matter of mathematical convenience to getting all the fundamentals and overtones lined up perfectly, more than any heavenly or biological explanation of ideal temperament. As to this being a unique product, not entirely. A=440, and done not as well...

After a year of hemming and hawing, I finally pulled the trigger on a Freya to replace a passive 10k volume pot, the Emotive balanced Control Freak. I did not expect to hear much difference other than better channel balance throughout the range. Boy, was I wrong! My system is...

so you really think your oppo has a better clock than the usb v5?

ordered gen 5 for my Gumby. Modi back in the chain for two weeks. Tidal> rasp pi + volumio>modi>passive pot attenuator>ncore 400 amps>ls/50. First thought was "wow, modi wasn't that bad. Great sound for so little, second guesses about having spent $1250 on Gumby, let alone throwing more money...

Yes. You've even outlined my reasoning.

Gen5>eitr, duh.

... further, Mike's mentioning of it's possible "adjustability" suggests to me that it is not feasible to differentiate between smeared harmonics and recorded echos. This makes me wonder how it will handle music that is intentionally atonal or dissonant, or was recorded with the sound of the...

Overtones are what make great instruments truly delicious to the ears when heard live... they are the doubled, tripled, quadrupled, etc harmonic frequencies of the note being played. Smearing is when the higher frequencies are slowed by various means through the recording process. So smearing...

Nah, smearing from the studio.

I'm fairly certain I called it a few pages back. It's a desmearing device. Overtones will be correctly time aligned with their fundamentals. It's going to be amazing.

I think I get the gist of what the MP is, and I imagine it achieves everything MQA promises, but with all my existing music. I realize all the overtones and artifacts of the live performance are smeared during recording and mastering, but they could be time re-aligned in the digital space prior...

For outright sound quality and impedance matching, it would seem a Jotunheim might beat out a Freya in an all balanced system. I'm going from Gumby to Hypex NCore amps. Can anyone speak to their own experience between these two preamps?

USB allows the Gumby's clock to run the timing and is preferred to your sound card's SPDIF out. Try to set it up as a WASAPI exclusive mode output.

Hardware decoding never made a bit of sense. Pun intended.

I do read. Owner's manual doesn't say that the remote is in the box. Just one saga, one power cord, and zero stick on feet.

So... What's that?

Look up Ncore amps. Find some to listen to. They are an incredible bargain, and I'd be surprised if any class A or AB amp could approach their quality below their cost, which is only pennies higher than the Vidar for a pair of monoblocks. Class D can be done extremely well when the designer...