Analog vinyl masters are the very rare exception nowadays. Most of the music is created digitally... even more is recorded digitally .. and even more is mixed/mastered digitally. On top of that I do not think there is any company left that produces things like analog mixing consoles, tape...

A bit better. Possibly .. maybe. In my exp people tend to seriously overstimate the diffs between Dacs. Most of those diffs lie in an area that the vast majority of people would call "professional-nitpicking". Comparing Dacs is usually a sort of a maybe-game ... maybe this one has a larger...

Sansa clip zip. Doesnt get lighter than that

Enjoying them now, thx meze team. Will ship back on Monday or Tuesday

Thx for reminding me of that welltempered website. One of the best resources for all sorts of computer audio. And cool trivia like: "RAVENNA was named after the Italian town of the same name where the poet Dante died…" :)

Muziqboy thx for the extra info, now it's at least clear how it all works. And the linked Fujak experiments were an interesting read too. Still cannot understand why/how does the chain reclockin work. Did you get any technical explanation from your Mutec contacts? And is it something...

Thx for the extra info. Cant really start to think about any of your open Qs cause I'm already stuck with the basic: why is reclocking needed? The Dac has a good clock, the RN3 too and there is the master Antelope clock too (which I assume/hope does sync all devices). So why using any of those...

I am a bit afraid to ask but I'll try: why 4 clocks? Maybe you can clarify the whole stup a bit .. seems intriguing.

...and 10x easier to use plus tons of useful extras like dlna, room correction,.... And lastgen surround preprocessors like Marantz 8802 can sit near *any* Dac in terms of SQ .. and in any living room .. and overall are a much better investition than any 'simple' Dac. Oh well, audio is growing...

...be used by people with eyes .. and spouses .. and wallets .. and limited time. The connection between a transport and a Dac should be a cable .. *not* an awfull, mega expensive rack full of leds! The only good news around here are those ravenna-to-i2s boards by Mivera-Audio. Hope they'll...

Something is just not right in that pic .. some of you guys are replacing the old, awful 5devices+20cables Usb chain with a 5devices&10cables Ethernet chain. Why oh why?! And those Usb thingies were at least small and not so hard to hide. The new Aoip chain is a monster .. made of...

Nope .. but the holy ground quantum loop just might ;)

That's normally a very good sign. The more 'musical' and less 'digital' the sound is, one can & kinda feels the need to turn the volume up.

Both eth cables gotta be exactly 23cm long. You've been warned! :)

Thanks for the Fpga correction. Is there some extra detail/documentation on those pulse array Dacs?

It goes a bit farther than that. AFAIK, Chord designed and implemented their own fpgas .. and new filters based on their own algorithms. Also the DA conversion is done by their own custom chips. Normally I wouldnt consider that stuff such big a leap .. they did not really revolutionize anything...

Figured out already that you're not just another audiophile :). We share a very similar background. Judging by your Poly-talk we may even share the same world region. I just dont share your optimism about their software quality. I prefer the safe assumption that it's same as almost all other...

All good then. And 100% agreed about the inovative products. If I was to pay $10+k for a Dac, it'll surely be something like Dave. They took a big leap in tech terms and sounds like they got it right too (wont comment about the same as big leap in funky design). OTOH, the gold feet and the...

...would cost billions each. And your new tablet will be 10x more expensive than your current 2 years old one. Noone would take that kind of bullsh*t from e.g. Samsung .. but somehow many people are ready to take it from the hifi companies. /rant I hope my hifi-prices-venting does not...

Maybe U may be right. But as someone who works in IT, I have serious doubts. Almost all the software nowadays is in a sort of continuous beta-state. E.g Android is even older than Dante and still looks and feels like a beta .. the first 2-3 versions were so bad, they barely deserved to be...

AO and similar tools could actually be quite bad as they do exactly the oposite of what you need for AOIP. They optimize for audio and usb but under Windows the audio and network subsystems share lots of resources. Basically, most audio optimizations will come at the expense of network...

These should be good enough http://www.neutrik.com/en/accessories/aes-ebu-impedance-transformers/ Dont know how much they cost but surely cheaper than those jensens above

In theory there should not be any SQ diffs. In practice the HW may make an audible diff, especially the clocks used for the eth2aes conversion. Also, at this stage the drivers for both are probably still in a beta state. jabbr my bad for the usec/msec confusion. It was even worse cause I used...

Cheers :) Just trying to keep the thread alive while lucky Torq goes diving (IIUC)

Thx for the update b0bb. I was actually looking at http://www.morion.com.ru/catalog_pdf/39_MV317.pdf Better phasenoise numbers, excellent stability, relatively low power, etc ... unfortunatelly only comes with 5/12V inputs so not an easy drop-in replacement for LKS. Might be worth the effort...