I have the original. I asked the dealer about upgrading. He said the changes were minor and not worth it.

It sounds very well out of my Artemis amp which is SS but pure Class A warm.

We need a Composer 2 with better staging/depth.

HD800S with warmer mids and better bass is about right. There are other things however: on my system the sound is very upclose and present, more so than some people will like who prefer something more laid back. That also means there is little sense of depth, something that the HD800S has very...

I am trying mConnect. How do you get it to play gapless on the SE300? Gapless to app and gapless to renderer settings don't seem to make any difference. I have gapless turned on on the SE300.

Denafrips Artemis

Then I don't know. Let's see if someone else can help.

I experienced something similar. In my case I decided the cause was my computer (Apple MBP M1) did not have the power to do the computing needed with HQplayer and Roon using some of the more computing heavy filters. Also I believe I2s has a maximum of 705.6k so HQplayer needs to be kept within...

Depends on the setup. What dac, what amp was being used. You can't judge any piece of hifi equipment in isolation. It also depends on you: everyone hears things sightly differently. After all sound doesn't exist: a pressure wave hits the eardrum and is turned into an electrical impulse that...

I have the Gaia connected to the Terminator by an expensive Tubulus HDMI cable. Out of curiosity I tried a cheap 1m RJ45 cat7 cable from the local computer shop. The sound is really good, in some ways preferable to the HDMI. The HDMI to me sounds more focused and a little darker while the RJ45...

Have a look at the AA Composer.

Thank you. Do you mean the AK app is being deprecated and will not be updated?

Thanks. It took some time but eventually the SE300 appeared in the list. However after about 5 minutes it disappeared again! Also we need the app updated to allow gapless playback and also to show Qobuz not just Tidal.