[Mr BubbaHyde]

Are you the chosen one? did they take you to visit the oracle already?

Oh I've been to the Oracle,

Probably just ones too many times!!

 

[Lolito]

LOL

 

[Lolito]

can someone here confirm what is the max. resolution audio for coaxial and for optical? not that my high res library is too large or too high res, but just to be aware of the bottle neck. for DSD and for PCM. Thanks in advance.

I moved to a new place, with very noisy windows anyways... not sure if so much tweaking is relevant now anymore, still considering this purchase.

 

[sajunky]

can someone here confirm what is the max. resolution audio for coaxial and for optical?

It works up to 192kHz on coax, see post, also on optical (which is a maximum you can get on any equipment).

 

[Lolito]

thank you sir. What about DSD?

 

[gdwallasign]

Just grabbed a used gustard x16 and iis over hdmi seems limited to 384khz. Am I doing it right?

 

[sajunky]

thank you sir. What about DSD?

Can't test on my defective device, it make a noise with 176.4kHz sampling rate - it is DSD64 DoP frequency. But I can hear some music below noise level, it means it plays well. .LOL.

 

[sajunky]

Just grabbed a used gustard x16 and iis over hdmi seems limited to 384khz. Am I doing it right?

Yip, 384kHz is a maximum for this device.

 

[Lolito]

Can't test on my defective device, it make a noise with 176.4kHz sampling rate - it is DSD64 DoP frequency. But I can hear some music below noise level, it means it plays well. .LOL.

ok, so you still could not get a decent douk ddc, just like that other guy... interesting. Not a very reliable product then, no?

 

[sajunky]

ok, so you still could not get a decent douk ddc, just like that other guy... interesting. Not a very reliable product then, no?

I don't know whether it arrived defective or had been mishandled. It doesn't have any protection against use of incorrect power supply. This unit was purchased for me by the other guy who wanted to test it, then handed over to me and immediately left for Safari tour. When he came back, Amazon return period was over. Now it depends on the Douk customer service how they deal with the matter, but a silence from a person is not promising well.

 

[Lohb]

Got the U2 with 3xTCXO upgrade, fantastic ! Presentation is like 'glass' is only way I can describe it vs USB...not very
scientific, I know.

Any of you find the optical connection can cut out if you move it ?
My Hugo 2 port end does not have that issues...
Just trying to find out if others are a bit loose on the U2 port. I know you won't normally move them around
but I set it up at different locations and when moving it a bit more can cut out a few seconds..not the optical
cable, tried 2 already.

Am going to also get a coax cable and test out vs optical - see if its even possible to tell the difference.

I doubt you can tell the difference between this DDC and ones 5x 10x etc...in blind tests.

 

[sajunky]

Any of you find the optical connection can cut out if you move it ?
My Hugo 2 port end does not have that issues...
Just trying to find out if others are a bit loose on the U2 port. I know you won't normally move them around
but I set it up at different locations and when moving it a bit more can cut out a few seconds..not the optical
cable, tried 2 already.

My optical port was also loosing connection, but I have soldering iron next to me and refreshing socket solder joints fixes a problem. As it is a second case, it means they have a quality problem on the assembly line. All joints visually do not show a poor workmanship, including optical socket, but it was a cold joint in this place.

I think you should also check whether 176.4kHz works, It could be the entire batch with crippled XMOS chip.

 

[Lohb]

176.4kHz works testing just now over optical, but I don't upsample on that end - as Hugo2 upsamples internally once it received bitperfect and it sounds more natural vs SoX upsampling from Audirvana...well whatever it does I think just letting H2 do its thing sounds best...

Do you have the TCXO model or which one of the 3 clock choices ?

 

[sajunky]

Unusual. It can be Hugo doing OK, but Douk not...
Test all sampling rates. If other sound better, note irregularities. SoX upsampling with good quality option give minimal differences.

Standard option. I have fem-to oscilators ready, but not going to install on this defective unit..

 

[gdwallasign]

ok, so you still could not get a decent douk ddc, just like that other guy... interesting. Not a very reliable product then, no?

I have two units no problems.