Well it's kind of uncommon/rare to not have analog RCA outputs but thats how they did build the Okto Reaserch dac 8 Stereo.

Thats right. The analog outputs is two pair of XLR only.

Qobuz streaming service offers true hig res flac-files. Tidal offers MQA lossy compressed flac files. Well Spotify is regular lossy compressed aac now days. If you want the best quality availible for streaming I think Qubuz is better than Tidal because of this. A NAS is a file server, you buy...

More like the other way around. Waw and flac contains (L)PCM information. Regular dacs normaly support different resolution PCM or DSD bitstreams (and some newer ones MQA). If you want the best quality from a regular streaming service I would look for Qobuz, that provide real lossless high...

Well in my opinion MQA has anything to do with high end audio, its lossy compression. If I want the best of the best when it comes to audio formats I go for high resulotion PCM or DSD.

It's just my opinion. I have been reading a lot about MQA, what it does and the licensing. I have heard it with my ears, not bad not good. I don't need it and the whole licensing part. Well I don't belive it's anything good. Again thats just my opinion. There are plenty of other threads about...

None of them have any amplifier, both are delta sigma dac:s You can see the specs on theire web-site. Well they are different in functionality and there is difference in performance. The stereo is a regular 2 channel version and have two pairs of XLR outputs, the Pro has 8 chanels and 4 AES/EBU...

How on earth did you get it that fast. I ordered my unit #281 in December, and got just a week ago. I known #283 is a black unit with streaming, like yours, but it's not shipped out yet. Did you send them one mail every day, until they had enough? 😉😊👍

Thank you. So far, not great. 😥 It does not play my DSD256 files properly, since it says it 32 bit PCM, and i output noise. The regular PCM 16 bit... It tells me it's 24 bit althogh I know it's just 16 bit. Well, I have to check my settings of my Auralic aries G1, and new Okto dac, tommorw. 🤓

Ooah yeah.

Mine is #281 silver non-streaming dac8 stereo, arived today, but since I'm not home right now I have to wait until Sunday to pick it up. 😎👍👍👍 I placed my order 2020-12-27 🤐