[esmit]

Also that is already done and written in the same thread:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/my-choral-housed-chord-mscaler.964931/post-17337052

Its happily being used by @esmit

Indeed it is! And I am enjoying it almost every day.

 

[Reactcore]

Only when I am perfectly happy with the pre-production prototype, and Chord are happy to launch it too. It's a major project - easily the most complex design I have ever done by a huge margin in terms of PCB design and FPGA coding. Six months ago, my son Daniel, out of the blue said it was sonically the most important thing I have ever done, so I think it will turn out to be very much worth the wait.

Congrats to estimated a year of listening to your new scaler we cant wait to lay our ears on it too

 

[naynay]

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[GhiAB]

Has anybody tried 2 BixPower batteries for the MScaler at once...with a Y cable, to prolong the battery life?

 

[JTbbb]

Has anybody tried 2 BixPower batteries for the MScaler at once...with a Y cable, to prolong the battery life?

Be careful with that, put them in series and you will end up with double the voltage!

 

[GhiAB]

So no....Thanks!

 

[GuiltyRocker]

Has anybody tried 2 BixPower batteries for the MScaler at once...with a Y cable, to prolong the battery life?

Nope, that sounds like a really bad idea, just use the regular cable that comes with the unit.

 

[chelseafc]

Be careful with that, put them in series and you will end up with double the voltage!

I believe you can only do it with the switching outputs, not unregulated ones

 

[GhiAB]

Thank you....just a stupid question

 

[JTbbb]

Thank you....just a stupid question

Not a stupid question! If using batteries you can wire them in parallel. This will give you the desired voltage, but double the amp hour.

 

[GhiAB]

That seem to demand some wiring .... which I do not know to manage!

 

[muski]

That seem to demand some wiring .... which I do not know to manage!

I bet Ghent Audio could make you a cable like that if you explain carefully what you want to do. https://ghentaudio.com/.

I just ordered a pair of DC power cables from Ghent to connect to the unregulated Port II of the Bixpower BP-90. One end will have a 3.5mm x 1.3mm for the tiny port on the Bix, and the other a 5.5mm x 2.1mm connector (for Audiowise OPTO-DX units). I‘ve used their DC cables in the past and always liked them.

 

[GhiAB]

I used cables from Ghent that were very good, but I would not want to undo the benefits of the battery...I will ise just one and be thankful for that!

 

[GhiAB]

And thanks for the info about the plug type on the BP90. I ordered one and could not find any info on that.

 

[Thompsonkirk]

About MScaler and Roon: I noticed I could change the Roon DSP settings so that Roon would send DSD files directly to MScaler without converting them to FLAC. I assumed HMS would do a better conversion than Roon. And the HMS source light changed to white when I opened a DSD recording.

The problem was that all music, DSD and FLAC, then sounded thin. But when I switched back so that Roon sent 192/24 files to MScaler, sound quality was restored.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a faulty setting in my system, or something affecting everyone? If the latter, is there an explanation?