Interesting observation I thought I'd share. I had to send my TT2 in for service, so I'm temporarily using my backup system, a modest SMSL SP200/M200 stack. With my high-res files, I was quite impressed at how good it sounded. But when I listen to standard format or lossy files, oh boy, the mScaler is sorely missed! I listen to a lot of
Radio Paradise and they have a lossless flac streaming option that sounds pretty great, however through the mScaler it is simply top notch. With this SMSL stack, I am able to easily spot the difference between my high res tracks and the streaming radio. I might try S/PDIF out from the mscaler into the m200, even though I'd be limited to 192k upscaling from mscaler.