[esmit]

It may have been obvious to you, as the author of the post, but it clearly was not obvious to the final readers of the post.

You then describe a special purpose computer, to perform this conversion of music files.
Such a computer is not going to be available to 99.9999% of the users of any DAC, so is irrelevant to the discussion that was taking place.

You might as well have said that there is no need to spend $15000 buying a DAVE, because you can get better performance if you buy a $0.5M Cray supercomputer, then develop the machine code yourself.
Chord will be quaking in their boots at the prospect! :eek:

I think people are referring to upsampling/processing the original sounds with a regular computer using software called Hqplayer, then feeding it to a DAC, using USB. HQplayer can use the computers CPU but it can also utilize the computing power of some graphic cards GPUs. More computing power will allow higher upsampling and more complex filters, but people are using regular i7 Intel processors to do this. No cray needed

 

[rkt31]

read my earlier post with 7 points. pcm to pcm upsampling to 768khz using best setting in hq player requires only 7 % or at the maximum 15% power of i7 4th gen. you can't go beyond that.

 

[Currawong]

read my earlier post with 7 points. pcm to pcm upsampling to 768khz using best setting in hq player requires only 7 % or at the maximum 15% power of i7 4th gen. you can't go beyond that.

That's equivalent to 16x oversampling (of 48kHz). The Hugo does 2048x oversampling, effectively. 

 

[sklonchpower]

Dear all.
Could you be so kind to clarify one question.
Is it possible to use Shanling m1 as device for DSD transport for Hugo?
Or iPod with onkyo is preferable one?
Kind regards
Vlad

 

[jmills8]

Dear all.
Could you be so kind to clarify one question.
Is it possible to use Shanling m1 as device for DSD transport for Hugo?
Or iPod with onkyo is preferable one?
Kind regards
Vlad

yes

 

[sklonchpower]

Thanks for reply, but what "yes" mean?
iPod or shanling??
Thank you in advance

 

[jmills8]

Thanks for reply, but what "yes" mean?
iPod or shanling??
Thank you in advance

yes to both.

 

[sklonchpower]

I like shanling because of small size.
Does shanling able to transport direct DSD to hugo?
Kind regards.
Vlad

 

[sklonchpower]

Please help me)))
Shanling or iPod???
I confused!!!!

 

[Deftone]

Please help me)))
Shanling or iPod???
I confused!!!!

 
shanling m1 supports dsd, you can find this information on google or here on headfi if you do a quick search for it.

 

[miketlse]

Please help me)))
Shanling or iPod???
I confused!!!!

You need to give us some context of your needs - we cannot tell you which is best for you, if we don't know what you want to achieve.

 

[sklonchpower]

Dear all.
My aim is to achieve good sound and portativity.
Kind regards.
Vlad

 

[WilliamLeonhart]

Guys, can there be counterfeit Chord Hugo? I looked it up on taobao and the price there is way too good, at max only $1400.

 

[miketlse]

  Guys, can there be counterfeit Chord Hugo? I looked it up on taobao and the price there is way too good, at max only $1400.

 
Can you provide the link? @Mojo ideas could be interested.

 

[WilliamLeonhart]

Here it is. Price is in RMB.

https://world.taobao.com/search/search.htm?_ksTS=1482161138161_41&spm=a21bp.7806943.20151106.1&_input_charset=utf-8&navigator=all&json=on&q=chord%20hugo&callback=__jsonp_cb&cna=k6bYD3421QgCAQ6iw4SoyNvx&abtest=_AB-LR517-LR854-LR895-PR517-PR854-PR895