That cma18p looks more like a competition to Hugo2 than to Mojo2.

I've had toslinks of same (not expensive) brand, some did 192 while others didn't.

That matters most, things what you like most :thumbsup: Just threw in my 2cents :beerchug:

Owned both the RME ADI2 dac FS and Mojo, the RME was not able to beat mojo's sound, not even the Mojo1. It might matter less if the headphone or amp/speakers are unable to transfer the strong points of mojo. But if the gear translates well then the stage of mojo will be larger and more...

It would be a desastrous design if that would brick the mojo. Lots of bricked mojo's would result of that, I don't recall a case.

No Mscaler?

Agree, more in terms of stage size. You won't lack details on mojo2 imho.

Bauhaus, Sisters of mercy,...terrible recordings but it's a signature of a time, it must be that way to trigger the exact forgotten feelings of the past, so I sure concur on that part. But for recent music I'm more demanding though, a mediocre song that is very well mastered is still...

....or a change in powergrid polution, sinuses get havoced sometimes.

"That" chase is over 😁 I would not call it a human condition, rather a human property to curiously investigate zoning into whatever stuff crosses our path and especially men have a triple dna string for that 😅

I think most/all people agree that there is a gap between (M)M2 vs (M)Dave. The complication is: how much does person X care about that gap, or a gap in general. E.g. my friend acknowledge a canyon wide gap between his 500€ blaster and my setup but he frankly doesn't care and so goes on...

Agree. Something about it is clearly therapie, an "own cave" and retreating into it. To build that cave (time invested, money, drooling..) as well as to be in it. About actual hours of cave usage, nobody wants to be 8 hours a day on the shrinks bench too, right? 😅 All psychology food of...

Dave could/should be Dave+MS by default 😉 I can be very happy today with my Audioquest Dragonfly Bleu too. Imho being-happy has no clear uncut relationship with quality of the means. There could be a link but its very loose. My friends burst in laughing hearing what I spend on hifi, like 'Dude...

730grams is not pocket-ish. Say it's very, very transport friendly. Purse friendly, but that's not me though 😁 But you can get a hugo2 these days 2nd hand for less than half the price of enleum hpa-23rm, about same size, if transportability dictated such a size/weight.

Yeah there are like a ton of setting to fiddle with, good luck! Should work. What confused me initially was the internal high res driver, this would only address headphone socket usages, not the audio usb usage.

I'm really considering Enleum HPA-23RM at the moment. * Both portable/desktop. *Two tone characters, voltage driven or current driven. *Replaceable batteries. *If you're not driving Susvaras or other power monsters it's said indistinguishable with big brother AMP-23R. *3700 euros .. dang...

There are upsample solutions that bring (standard-to-well mastered) spotify 320kbps to almost CD quality, or better than poor mastered CD quality. I consider bit perfect well mastered 320kbps adequate hifi food on the table 🍽️

It's a real shame that Spotify Connect is not widely implemented.

I use Usb Audio Player Pro app that uses its own bit perfect drivers and bypasses the phone standard ones.

@GoldenSound Thank you very much for that ! About 'merely academic and most people won't notice anyway' type of thinking: I tend to goto loud parties where 90% is unaware of the term 'sound quality' and if stuff ain't wall reflected morbidly dead then they are happy as a bird in springtime. A...

Someone listening to a standard Dave + MS with Focal Stellia? First time I found crossfeed 1 or 2 nessesary on some CD quality files otherwise it became too much left-right stereo exaggerated. On streamed radio station 320kbps back to 0.

I can imagine for people who find Dave too precise a tube amp might be a goldilock synergy.

I'd like to hear opinions too. Thought a long time that rebelamp preserved all, but it does take away 'something', took me a while to realise. Plan to mod Dave a la Reactcore later on for sure. You know, less stuff in the chain. But can't resist to ponder on ferrum hypsos/oor set too, damned 😅

I suppose a Dragonfly DAC/amp's and alikes (when connected directly to cell phone with a OTG cable USB C male --> USB A female) also needs a fair amount of power trough the USB audio port, at least the power to drive a standard headphone instead of just IEM's. Might impact bass slam though...

@Currawong The urge to tribe is very human imho, better expect to see it than to be frustrated. Nature sets us up this way.