[T Bone]

Has anyone experienced difficulty getting an upstream USB filter to work with the Qutest?
I plugged my Uptone ISO Regen into the signal path and the Qutest disappeared from Windoze.

 

[nick77]

Has anyone experienced difficulty getting an upstream USB filter to work with the Qutest?
I plugged my Uptone ISO Regen into the signal path and the Qutest disappeared from Windoze.

I had to reboot the IsoRegen several times before my system connected to it.

 

[Baten]

I had to reboot the IsoRegen several times before my system connected to it.

Sounds like fun....

 

[DMax99]

Will be picking up my brand new Qutest tomorrow! YAY! Can't wait!

 

[Deftone]

Will be picking up my brand new Qutest tomorrow! YAY! Can't wait!

When you sit back in your chair tomorrow and press play...

 

[DMax99]

Picked up my brand new unit this morning and listening to it now. The sound is so amazing!

Only about 30 mins in now and haven't even play around with the different filters (so still with the incisive neutral filter) and I must say that I am really in love with the sound!!!

Thanks for designing such a great dac @Rob Watts! ! Keep them coming!! I'm definitely a Chord fan NOW (was not impressed with an earlier dac before) ! LOL

Ps. How can I set the sample rate to 768kHz with usb? Atm, the highest I can choose is 384kHz. Thanks!

 

[Arniesb]

Picked up my brand new unit this morning and listening to it now. The sound is so amazing!

Only about 30 mins in now and haven't even play around with the different filters (so still with the incisive neutral filter) and I must say that I am really in love with the sound!!!

Thanks for designing such a great dac @Rob Watts! ! Keep them coming!! I'm definitely a Chord fan NOW (was not impressed with an earlier dac before) ! LOL

Nice to hear, what dac you had before?

 

[Gibson59]

Anyone come from using any of the Schiit DACs to a Qutest?

I’ve got a Schiit Bifrost Multibit and I’m thinking of selling and getting a Qutest. I had a nice audition with a Qutest at a HiFi store, but it’s different than actually owning and living with one for a while in your home.

 

[Deftone]

Picked up my brand new unit this morning and listening to it now. The sound is so amazing!

Only about 30 mins in now and haven't even play around with the different filters (so still with the incisive neutral filter) and I must say that I am really in love with the sound!!!

Thanks for designing such a great dac @Rob Watts! ! Keep them coming!! I'm definitely a Chord fan NOW (was not impressed with an earlier dac before) ! LOL

Ps. How can I set the sample rate to 768kHz with usb? Atm, the highest I can choose is 384kHz. Thanks!

Dont upsample before the dac let Qutest do all the work.

Use Chord ASIO driver and send bitperfect from your player.

 

[Baten]

Definitely let the qutest upsample for sure, use 44/48Khz. If you don't, why get the qutest with its insane filtering in the first place

 

[DMax99]

So just choose the 44/48Khz option on the computer??

 

[DMax99]

Nice to hear, what dac you had before?

I've had quite a few before lol...

Now it's just down to: 3x Audio-GD, 1x Lampizator, 1x Parasound, 1x Resonessence.

 

[OctavianH]

I reported some weeks back that the ISO Regen was not improving my Qutest. Well, it seems that everything depends also on the cables. I changed the RCA interconnects to Chord Clearway and tried again the ISO Regen. Now it seems, even if I power it with a normal power supply, that it adds some improvement. But the overall sound presentation is much darker. Maybe because the RF noise adds brightness? Anyway, I will continue to try it several hours. Has anyone tried it with the Ultracap LPS and can say if there is such a major improvement over a normal switching power supply?

 

[Arniesb]

I reported some weeks back that the ISO Regen was not improving my Qutest. Well, it seems that everything depends also on the cables. I changed the RCA interconnects to Chord Clearway and tried again the ISO Regen. Now it seems, even if I power it with a normal power supply, that it adds some improvement. But the overall sound presentation is much darker. Maybe because the RF noise adds brightness? Anyway, I will continue to try it several hours. Has anyone tried it with the Ultracap LPS and can say if there is such a major improvement over a normal switching power supply?

Generally these things shouldn't change sound to warm... It should sound smoother though. Also these decrapifiers highlight cables sound so much. Do you runing copper cable from regen to Qutest?

 

[Triode User]

So just choose the 44/48Khz option on the computer??

Best is to find a way of the computer outputting the file at exactly the same resolution as the music file or streamed file in the case of Qobuz or similar. for instance I have a variety of 44.1, 48, 96 and 192kHz files on my server.