Very nice piece. I like it a lot!   I'm not familiar with the brand name of the tuner-amp.   What is it? Sapini?   I think I may have met the mother and father, though.   Actually, I loved my AJ15 a lot; knew every coil's tuning 'stiction' and could align the slope discriminator while...

Audirvana Plus will convert DSD into PCM and adjust its output rate to what the DAC capabilities are automatically. If you have an external DAC connected, you can choose between internal and external by launching Audio Midi Setup located in the Utilities ƒolder (which is itself found in the...

Silent One, YEA 2U!   Honor to you for honoring her.   I think maybe there are 18 different ways that she amazes me, the least important of which is the realization that she has uniquely raised diction to the level of mastery, and musicality, of her performance art; and those of us with ears...

Yes, I would indeed agree that the production quality trumps all; perhaps I should be more careful to properly narrow the context of my opinions.   My main point was that I was trying to lower anxieties over 'which' DAC to purchase. There are many that are quite good, so waiting around for the...

Well, you have very effectively revealed the true absurdity of this 'artificial' optical speed limit by sending it out over kilo-miles of 'optical fiber' carrying 6 or 8 orders of magnitude more bandwidth than needed for 24b/96 kHz digital audio.   Still, I believe that most MACs split the...

I'm a newby in this forum so I don't know if anyone has published a shoot out on DACs here.   In general, there are two practical ways of learning about DAC competitive performance prior to $he££ing out € ¥; a) Find, and read, full blown test reports done (preferably) with the usual A/P...

Like finding a trans-Australian rest stop driving cross country, you're in luck! (he he)   Audirvana Plus auto notifies you when an update is available at launch, and, if so, then kindly asks you if you wish to install it. Furthermore, it is very good at finding your license file, so, even if...

I have a Hegel HD-11 NOS DAC that I was driving optically with an rMBP, using Channel-D's Pure Music. It wouldn't run faster than 96 kHz, and, since SPDIF is unidirectional, I found that I had to get Midi-recognized using USB and then pull the USB cable - it then found the optical port. I'm not...

snowshoe, thanks for checking your console logs after running A+ overnight; Sorry re 'excessive wakeups'.   It was very interesting to find out that you don't get the power consumption related spindumps while interfacing via SPDIF while I get a bevy of them while using USB.   I emailed...

Thanks. Like they say in Maine, "Is that all you done? Yeah, but I done it, three times!'   Multiple re-installs of OS 10.9.2 and A+, with Command-S /sbin/fsck -fy reboots/exits and Disk Utility 'Repair Disk Permissions' yada, yada, etc., i.e., "Round up the usual suspects."   Before...

I LOVE Audirvana Plus 1.5.12 and I am using it in stand alone mode with 'Direct' and 'Integer Mode' options on, driving a Chord Electronics Chordette QuteEX 32b DAC with great results!   Super high resolution digital audio files with data rates all the way up to 24b/32b, 384 kHz PCM and DSD128...