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  1. mackie1001

    Shanling M0 - Smallest Hi-Res Portable Player - New Firmware V3.6

    Turns out the bands and pad thing that came with my Fiio Q1 are perfect for this setup too. They securely hold the M0 in place but don't cover any portion of the screen :thumbsup:
  2. mackie1001

    Shanling M0 - Smallest Hi-Res Portable Player - New Firmware V3.6

    Anyone getting gaps between tracks with an external DAC (I have a Mojo)? Also my M0 occasionally hangs if I wake it up when plugged into the powered on Mojo. Feels like a bug with the wake up logic.
  3. mackie1001

    iPhone AAC vs. Aptx and Aptx-hd real world

    Apparently you can transcode AAC to AAC many times without further degradation so I suspect you’d get better overall results with Apple Music vs Spotify assuming the original quality before transcoding was equivalent. Not tested it myself though.
  4. mackie1001

    Shanling M0 - Smallest Hi-Res Portable Player - New Firmware V3.6

    Just got mine and loving it as a transport for my mojo with the L2 cable. Unfortunately however the LDAC receiver functionality seems a little problematic when I try and connect it to my Sony HT-XT3 soundbase. It will establish a connection and show that it’s using LDAC but I just hear white...
  5. mackie1001

    iPhone AAC vs. Aptx and Aptx-hd real world

    It's tempting to think that LDAC at ~990kbps *could* be lossless for 16/44 material but the CPU power involved in getting ALAC and FLAC encoding to the same size means that doesn't really stack up, despite what the Sony marketing machine would have to believe. Regardless, that's a lot of bits to...
  6. mackie1001

    iPhone AAC vs. Aptx and Aptx-hd real world

    AptX is really quite basic in its approach and I'd struggle to believe that the results are better than AAC in practice. All AptX is doing is throwing away increasing numbers of sample bits in different bands and applying ADPCM encoding to each band - the fact it sounds as good as it does is...
  7. mackie1001

    Shanling M0 - Smallest Hi-Res Portable Player - New Firmware V3.6

    Nice work! My M0 is on it's way as we speak and this will be perfect for stacking it on top of my Mojo.
  8. mackie1001

    Rob watts DAC design talk

    As a non-expert but an entry-level Mojo customer the appeal for me was the independent, novel, over engineered approach and superior build quality of their products - not just a $10 commodity chip in a nice box. I guess you'd call it boutique appeal? If they just said "yeah, everything at this...
  9. mackie1001

    24bit vs 16bit, the myth exploded!

    Of the back of that MQA appreciation thread mentioned earlier I thought I'd grab a free trial of Tidal Hifi and have a play. Straight away it was blatantly obvious that the difference I was hearing was due to it being a totally different master and nothing to do with the magical format at all. I...
  10. mackie1001

    Pictures of Your Portable Rig (part XVI)

    My modest walking around kit. All my good stuff is portable but I don't actually leave the house with it much. This is about as compact and minimal as you can get but seals out the outside world and sounds pretty good. For critical listening I have a Mojo and HE-400i.
  11. mackie1001

    Shanling M1: An iPod Nano Competitor / DAP || USB DAC || USB Transport || Bluetooth 4.0 + aptX || DSD

    AptX is lossy and so is Spotify so it's not a great chain if quality is your thing, which it must be if you have a Mojo. I'd imagine a lossless source over AptX can sound pretty good though.
  12. mackie1001

    Shanling M1: An iPod Nano Competitor / DAP || USB DAC || USB Transport || Bluetooth 4.0 + aptX || DSD

    I'm after an inexpensive DAP to pair with my Mojo which has a decent EQ built in. Is the EQ implementation good and does it work when using a USB DAC? I currently have a Sony A15 but the EQ is disabled when using USB digital out.
  13. mackie1001

    Hi-Res 24/94 vs Flac vs CD vs Mp3 files download comparison

    Ah didn't realise it supported multi-channel PCM, you learn something new every day!   On the subject of lossy codecs and video. I wonder how DD+ compares to AAC and modern MP3 encoders at lower bit rates. The 256kbps stream I get from Netflix sounds pretty decent to my ears.
  14. mackie1001

    Hi-Res 24/94 vs Flac vs CD vs Mp3 files download comparison

    The DVD spec includes uncompressed PCM (48 or 96khz, 16, 20 or 24 bits) stereo does it not? Is that why wires are being crossed here? Your typical movie won't use such a format but I have music DVDs which do.
  15. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    Sounds good! I will certainly be picking one up.
  16. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    I wonder if the module thing was a bit of an after thought since nothing is built into the "chassis" other than the ports to support clipping or otherwise fixing another piece on. Hopefully the "CCK House" will be moddable to take the Sony cable too (they are pretty similar in size). Dremels at...
  17. mackie1001

    Sony MDR1-ABT Impressions

    My understanding is that the iPhone will use AAC over Bluetooth if it can (and in this case it will). I find it hard to believe that converting to analog, then back to digital via a cheap device and then transmitting Aptx is going to enhance anything. I have one of those transmitters in the...
  18. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    Update: From reading the Media Go help it looks like it only supports *Sony* ASIO devices. Crappy, but as least I know it's noting to do with the Mojo drivers. 
  19. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    I have WASAPI working in Foobar and just regular output in Media Go. I'll have a play with Foorbar plugins, for some reason I assumed it did ASIO out of the box. Thanks!
  20. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    Anyone know what the deal is with ASIO on Windows 10? It doesn't show up in Foobar or Sony MediaGo as ASIO device despite having installed the driver. WASAPI works fine though.
  21. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    Got some X2s which should hopefully do the job for now :)
  22. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    Ordered and coming tomorrow. Can't wait. I've gone from entry level (Fiio Q1) to Mojo in one go - and why not?
  23. mackie1001

    Sony MDR1-ABT Impressions

    Not sure if it's come up before but quite by accident I found a generic cable that fits the MDR-1ABT recessed 3.5mm socket. I was after a shorter cable for my Fidelio X2s (which has no silly proprietary connection) and ended up buying this:  ...
  24. mackie1001

    Chord Mojo(1) DAC-amp ☆★►FAQ in 3rd post!◄★☆

    I'm pretty new to this hobby. Would it be overkill to pair a Mojo with some Fidelio X2s? I currently have a Fiio Q1 which sounds great to my ears but I can't ignore all the praise that the Mojo is getting. The want is strong.
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