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That would be awesome! I am extremely curious about those in particular! I will definitely do a write up on them. I don’t think the design makes sense without a bit of story about the process of creating it. I set out to make a simple headless black box running HQPlayer with 1 SBC and a...

Oh, the A&O Omega is also on my interested list! Curious about the Arya Unveiled too... I'm also quite curious about the Cyan 2, as I'm deep in the HQPlayer rabbit hole, and I know it's a recommended DAC for that use. Trying to decide if it is worth attempting to sell or trade my Denafrips...

Planning to be there! I can drive 1 person with a very small amount of gear (I drive a Miata, so it will be cozy). I’m coming from Lakewood, but I could dip into Denver to grab someone if needed, just let me know! I can bring anything in my sig that people might want to hear, but was planning...

Sorry for the delayed response! If you search on Head-Fi, you'll see I actually did a detailed comparison of them, also including the Topping E70 Velvet and Denafrips Ares 12th. I stand by them as written - in terms of pure sound quality out of the box, I think the Qutest wins. I think this is...

I have to say, I have ended up using my Tung Sol 7236 much more than the 5998… Similar power and dynamics, maybe a bit less euphonic, but a bit more technical - still definitely not thin or harsh and much easier on the budget, at least for now, but we all keep talking them up in here 😂

Late to the party on this one, but I saw a reference that said 50 for low and 150 for high. Wish I could remember the source…

Totally agree, that base is a game changer… I have also been playing with upsampling with it to DSD128 with HQ Player, and I have to say that also had a significant benefit, might be worth trying if you don’t already use it… The base was a bigger improvement tho, it’s really fantastic!

I had been curious about the same thing… I can’t recall 100%, but I think I remember hearing similar things. Here’s the calculation from Headphoneresource.com It looks like you could get a pretty good experience if your typical listening level is in the low 80’s or lower. If you push beyond...

Happy to hear it! You will definitely be enjoying some premium listening with or without HQPlayer :L3000:

Thanks for the feedback! I have started an account over at Audiophilestyle to gauge interest there. I actually have an Ally X, so I can give this a shot. I think playing music from the desktop on it is a bit wonky, and for some inexplicable reason Roon doesn’t have a desktop Arc app, so I would...

I will say that, for me, the Qutest does a better job out of the box than the Ares + Iris 12th handling DSD. I know it converts it internally to PCM (at least I think I know that from what I’ve read), but if you take each of these out of the box and feed a DSD signal in, I think the output is...

That is a very interesting idea… thank you! And I will post over there too, just need to set up an account.

Very cool. I hope it goes well with the tube rolling! Do you get a good bit of additional gain with this setup? Any negative effects / distortion if you turn up the Gemini too high for example?

Hey again, HQPlayer people! I have been thinking about this for a long time (see my posts in this thread from March 2024) - we need a portable dongle-like, Mojo-like, Poly-like, or DAP-like plug and play HQPlayer implementation of HQPlayer that can sit between a phone or tablet and a dongle /...

It’s 2025, people, and the world needs a plug and play, headless, “it just works,” Raspberry Pi running HQPlayer Embedded locally. I know, HQPlayer is supposed to need a small nuclear reactor to crank DSD 2048 with unspeakably complex filters and noise shapers, and I am 100% for that at home...