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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    I haven't listened to Atmos upsampled 2-channel music on my A16, however I am very pleased with the the speaker like listening experience my A16 provides to stereo recordings, whether hi-res or red book CD resolution as long as the original recording is good. I am able to do all of this through...
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    Thanks for this solution. However that won't work in the case of my streamer. I use is the Presto Music streamer, dedicated to the streaming service by Presto. It is very simple and has no other settings. Before getting that streamer, I was using a dedicated PC using the Presto Music app as...
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    HDMI would work of course but my streamer does not have an HDMI output.
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    I added a music streamer to my system and connected its optical output the A16. It works fine at sampling rates of 44KHz and 48KHz. Once I stream at 96KHz, 176KHz or 192KHz, the audio from the A16 keeps cutting in and out and is unusable. I tried other sources, cables, as well as the coaxial...
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    Thanks! Much appreciated.
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    Great! I will roll back to 2.12 then. I am not aware of the existence of firmware 2.14 as it is not on their website. Could you kindly post the link to the A16 Community Google Drive?
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    Thank you. I am aware of the limitations on the newer hardware, but that doesn't apply to my unit. I was asking because in some types of equipment, there is a warning that once firmware is updated there is no way to revert back.
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    Smyth Research Realiser A16

    While awaiting the release of a firmware to address the PRIR and HPEQ imbalance that appeared in firmware 2.15, I would like to downgrade my A16 firmware from 2.15 back to 2.12 which was working fine on my A16. I have a new headphone (Stax SR-009) I want to create an HPEQ for and it comes out...
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    Questyle QP1

    Thank you.  Looking forward to his feedback.  Will appreciate posting any info regarding that in this thread or by PM.
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    Questyle QP1

    I am very interested in the QP1R.  My question to Questyle is whether there were any plans to add browse by "Composer" feature in a future firmware update.   This feature is essential for us classical music lovers and it was available in the iPod Classic.   This feature would use the...
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    Chord Hugo

      I spend a lot of time tagging my files, so it becomes very easy to browse in J River.
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    Chord Hugo

    I have considered a mini-PC without screen but only for my home setup, not portable.  I haven't done it though and still use a dedicated laptop for that.  For portable use, I don't know what mini-PCs are available that are battery powered.  also J Remote is very nice, but you will still need a...
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    Chord Hugo

      I wanted the smallest Windows Tablet for portability but ended up adding external peripherals to make it work.  In the end, I have to agree the Surface is probably a better solution if you want to restrict your music to the internal 512GB plus a possibly 128GB microSD card.   I have a huge...
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    Chord Hugo

    I have experimented with several configurations to have a transportable setup that includes Hugo, including iPhone, SeaGate Wireless and Kingston Mobile Lite.  This is what I finally ended up doing.  See picture below.   The setup includes the following: - Pelican 1075 Carrying Case - Dell...
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