So i bought a 2qute. I have seen this question many times but unanswered: is it better when i turn off my power strip when i don't use it or should it be constantly on thus the light of the 2qute constantly on?
Up to you, I used both methods, it is fine either way.
BTW, while it is discontinued, it is still ahead of many dacs from other companies.
WARNING! Audiophile's Voodoo: After listening to it for about 6 month your brain rewires itself, and your other equipment and even dacs from other companies sound better.
I would like to add a little of my experience with 2Qute. I bought it second-handed more than a year ago. I was thinking about some nice DAC and there was RME-ADI2 on sight. Then I found a quite nice offer online and I decided to try. If I will not like it, I will sell it. But, here we are. After more than year I am not even thinking about DAC upgrade. It sounds just amazing. I had quite a turbulent year in head-fi and I changed almost everything in my rig, but 2Qute is still with me.
No Wyrd is like iFi IPurifier/Larry Moore's aubique filter and the new Audioquest Jitterbug. Empirical's Shortblocks is sorta similar as well. All are passive, Regen is actively powered with its own Power supply.
REGEN is different. Its based on new discoveries from Swenson's experiments. He is rebuilding the USB signal from scratch to have high signal integrity just before it enters the Dac and so reduce/eliminate propogated packet noise.
I own Aubisque and iPurifier and neither has the immediately obvious impact as Regen.
Well, IMO they are totally different products.
the NEO IDSD uses conventional DAC technology, includes a headphone amplifier (conventional) and has more input/output options. As such it's much more versatile.
The 2qute is just a DAC with fixed output, but using Rob Watts' proprietary FPGA DAC it's got the "special sauce" of Chord DACs.
I am personally done with conventional DACs after hearing Rob's designs. I really like his approach to design a DAC that addresses the shortcomings of conventional designs, and I hear that it works. The 2qute replaced a $4000, 10kg conventional DAC in my 2 channel system, and I never looked back.
IMO there is simply no way a $700 universal DAC/Amp such as the NEO IDSD would have any chance to get even close to a used 2Qute in performance. So if you value SQ over flexibility and can find a used 2qute for a reasonable price, go for it.
The 2Qute was popular with owners of Naim systems - they replaced their Naim dacs by a 2Qute.
So the 2Qute was obviously no slouch, but I don't recall seeing any posts comparing it to a IFi Neo IDSD.
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