I'm guessing the USB is a big bottleneck here. Were you also using HQplayer when sending your music using diretta?

@OCC7N It depends on what your audio server is running. A lot of people are using a rpi and load gentooplayer + diretta. Gentooplayer is ~ $70 for the license and diretta is $100. The beauty of the target is to have something that is low power and low noise to have the lowest noise floor...

Getting diretta set up with the afterdark bridge is pretty easy. If you have a PC, you install the ASIO drivers and open the dashboard to find the bridge on your network. Same if you're using linux. If you wanted to have a direct connection to diretta from your computer, you could do that as...

Yep, the stacks were the same except the DAC portion and I went through all three with susvara (I'm most familiar with it since I owned one before.) The jump from Lina to bartok was bigger than going to Rossini imo but there was still an improvement going to Rossini. Just depends how large your...

There was a new open backed that they were showing,

I had a great time at CanJam Dallas. It didn't seem as busy as other CanJams but that meant none of the stations took a long time audition and one day was enough to hear basically everything. Standouts for me: dCS room. I had a fun time comparing the different stacks and seeing if I could tell...

Yeah like you mentioned, the firmware really determines how the directstream sounds. I don't find the low end to lack any "drive" but it is interesting that John admitted in the review that his measurements did have an effect on what he heard. There's also been a new firmware after that review...

Has anyone compared with the ps audio directstream mk2?

It's gonna be more expensive, that's for sure

Yeah but you'll get an even more meaningful one at $1500

Selling for a friend - I sold him this unit and I ordered directly from Dukei received back in early 2022. This is a fully upgraded unit in two chassis and includes speaker taps on the back. Let me know if you have any questions. - 2 chassis configuration. Both 10mm thick front. Black...

They probably scheduled it around the same time....If you look at CAF, they already have the 2024 dates on their website. Head-fi scheduled canjam a year in advance as well. I don't think there's much communication between speaker audio shows and canjams once canjam started to become their own show.

It's actually not too surprising. CD900st is a legend in Japan. It's been in production since the late 80s and if you look at masskobo's site, they also make a lot of studio products. CD900st has personally beat a lot of more expensive headphones for me so this puts masskobo on the map for me...

Quick payment, easy to talk to, wouldn't hesitate selling to gallappago again!

HD580 in good condition. Let me know if you have any questions. This is the black paper variant.