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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Roon has I think inspired a number of less-ambitious alternatives: Innuos seems one of the better polished entries, dCS have their...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Thanks for the updates. And yes, this is a big to-do for us but it is absolutely nonsensical to expect any OS to continue for years and...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Congratulations. Immediate Additional Upgrades are either a sign of weakness or strength in a product, clearly here the latter. I have...
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Ffrankensmurf reacted to Triode User's post in the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite with Like.regarding the impending and imminent 3.1 update, Antipodes have just posted this which is very informative. “With v3.0 and v3.1, there...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Thanks!
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Speaking of rack space, sigh, I've just set up my PS Audio SACD Transport. It absolutely spanks my streaming stack on native redbook CD...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.This is my absolute standard for upgrades and changes as well. For instance my system "sounds" very very similar if I remove the BHK...
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Ffrankensmurf reacted to FlikFlac's post in the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite with Like.Not as far as I’m concerned, this is how I am running it now into an Mscaler and it has totally transformed SQ, beyond what I imagined...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Thank you! Very helpful. I think PS Audio has a "bit perfect test" file somewhere that I might dig up.
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.The Tambaqui, which I had in the system for some time, is another. I swear I don't have a DSD upsampling design bias, it just happened...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Well don't give me too much credit, I've been using SB renderer for a long time (unambiguous benefit) and will eventually get to Roon >...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Fascinating. a) this is a bit unnerving given the price of the K50. : | b) this is bit confusing given the implication (if I'm...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Thank you both for these details.. I know a lot of people have very high-end systems. I find it very disconcerting that the underlying...
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.Let's ask if it can be retrofitted to the S60. My strategy I think is to keep CX/EX and swap p2 for s60.
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Ffrankensmurf replied to the thread CX, EX, K, S, Oladra, Antipodes, Owners Unite.In the DAC landscape some manufactures, such as dCS, Esoteric, Mutec, and some pro-oriented brands, embrace the external clock...