it's my fourth metrum/sonnet dac... probably my favorite. why? cuz in the past there's always an upgrade in sound when upgrading the psu. altho i am not certain hdplex would be an upgrade. it's certainly bigger.

I am enjoying a second hand Octave MK1. Am wondering whether I could power the DAC with a HDPLEX300 set at 9v DC output using one of these cables? edit: nvm it's 9v AC not DC.

i have the xspdif2 and haven't noticed a change when powering it with hdplex's 9v dc. however, i also have the matrix H usb card and it does benefit from external psu. tho, as i understand it, these two devices are not actually powered by external psu. when i had the orchid, i didn't use a...

How good is the SA-1 purely as a two channel preamplifier? Looking for a preamp with two outputs.

stream of consciousness update. received 1794 dac earlier this week. first few days of listening, comparing to 1563 dac, highs more energetic, definitely more mid highs centric. more frequency flat than 1563 but definitely not flatter sounding than 1563. i still prefer 1563 due to it having...

for me, i already own a few pretty good to great lpsus so getting a built dac with dc input is an instant upgrade. so that's why i am aiming for these NOS dacs with dc input. whereas, the boards and modules... i don't have electronic background to build them safely or effectively. the 1543...

I wish I knew what to do with all them boards and modules... but am deciding to get the 1794 all in one device in lieu of a Merason atm. both using the same dac chip but Mersason is not using a pair.

despite el cheapo parts, the $60 dac displaced a $3k dac in my system. so not in a rush to diy yet.

does the dac i have correspond to kusunoki's original nos dac design?

Thanks for that. I guess that means the dac can improve a lot more cuz, even with the cheapo parts, the sound is absolutely lovely.

Currently using this 1543 DAC and has become my dac du jour. Here's a pic of it with the top removed: Am powering it with HDPLEX 300's 12v 10amp output with a Ghent DC25 cable. I'd love to try a 12v DC powered 1541 but don't think they exist. But, am awaiting this 1794 dac's arrival.

Anyone know how to acquire a budget RJ45 cable to connect between Denafrips DDC and Sonnet DAC? I have a chance to guy the Cardas Clear made by Audio Art but I don't want to spend more than $150 on a digital cable. Only other solution I am aware of is the Phasure i2s cable.

Just to be clear, Denafrips ddc works with Sonnet i2s input without buying a specially configured rj45 cable?

i use this to resample in foobar https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_src_resampler 95% of what i listen is streaming tho

Does non-oversampled software playing through an oversampling hardware = oversampled software playing through an nonoversampling hardware?

It's a dissapointment to me and others who I know personally. I recently reacquired the Ares2 and it now has a brushed metal face. Wanted to try another R2R transistor dac since I liked the way Morpheus sounded but didn't want to get it again.

marco it's not worth it. and, yes, i would be one of those "scammed" into believing this were a nos dac.

the bass is more warm and liquidy. you're swimming in the bass rather than having it blasted at you.

Just in my experience, DDC doesn't always do DACs better.

so in the end every dac sounds the same

Does the Morpheus' personality change when plugging it into a DDC? IME, DDC alters the DAC's sound very drastically. Case in point, every dac i plugged into the SU-6 sounds like a SDA-2 clone. And, I didn't like the SDA-2.

For $450, this is a very very good dac. The new E30 Velvet is very very good too.

I only have RCA cables and RCA to XLR adapters and only diff I hear is volume output but that might be because the adapters are not optimal compared to actual xlr cables.

and here i thought it was a product feature

Happy too soon. I just noticed this behavior. During and after I use the dac's volume control, the right channel is about 5db louder. Some time afterwards, both channels will sound even again if I leave the volume at -0db. But, once I use the volume control again, the right channel again is...