[obsidyen]

  Awesome. How about DXD?
I will grab this soon.

 
I'll try to get some DXD files and try today. I'll edit this post then.

 

[kawaivpc1]

   
I'll try to get some DXD files and try today. I'll edit this post then.

Thx, let me know if DSD 128 and 256 were both possible too.

 

[BillHew]

Sounds like the best way to go. I also got in touch with Meridian support regarding this issue - but sorted it out myself in the end as per my previous post. Keep us informed on how you get on with the response from Meridian. Good luck.

 

[BestEarCN]

the explorer2 i got have the exact same logo as the original explorer, is this a mistake, or they decide to get rid of the 2 on the logo?

 

[Pedro83]

This doesn't seem right, Meridian would not be shipping out E2's knowingly without the adjusted logo, I can almost say that as a fact. 
 
Where did you buy from? It may well have gone under the radar of quality control but I would be looking into it. 

 

[Pedro83]

^ If you have the E1 at hand, and they're different, perhaps Meridian made a mistake. You should know as the E2 has no optical out. 

 

[BestEarCN]

the red light thing is optical outright? then my e2 has it, i bought it on amazon, and it is factory sealed, thankfully i can return it easily, guess this is really bad luck

 

[Click]

the red light thing is optical outright? then my e2 has it, i bought it on amazon, and it is factory sealed, thankfully i can return it easily, guess this is really bad luck

Explorer² has no red light / optical out. They sent you the first Explorer. I already posted pictures of what the E² is supposed to look like in the original post of this thread.
 
Explorer² is currently sold out on (American) Amazon and has been for the past week or two. The guy who was selling them on eBay is also sold out of them. Seems like E² has been a popular item and difficult to find currently. Hopefully Meridian can produce more of these and more retailers can get their hands on them soon. 

 

[obsidyen]

Apparently they put an Explorer 1 into the box of an Explorer2. You should return them and get a new one.
 

  Explorer² has no red light / optical out. They sent you the first Explorer. I already posted pictures of what the E² is supposed to look like in the original post of this thread.
 
Explorer² is currently sold out on (American) Amazon and has been for the past week or two. The guy who was selling them on eBay is also sold out of them. Seems like E² has been a popular item and difficult to find currently. Hopefully Meridian can produce more of these and more retailers can get their hands on them soon. 
 

 
Well, it's really great for the price.

 

[RaintoSky]

Yeah, I returned them, thanks guys.
I also find out that it is both in stock now on audioadvisor and musicdirect starting today.

 

[Sineira]

  The lighs indicate the sampling rate coming INTO the dac, not the sampling rate after the dac upsampled it.   If you input to the explorer files with sample rate below 176.4/192 it will upsample them anyway.. 44.1 and 88.2 to 176.4 , 48 and 96 to 192.  
Or maybe I misunderstood how the explorer works.   

Well it seems there is a bug or I don't get this.
I set it to 24/192 (on a PC) and when I play the first song it turns on all three LEDs. The song is not 24/192, it's 24/96.
It never switches to less LEDs after that.

 

[Sineira]

Hmm, it's all due to the windows mixer getting in the way.

 

[wanderingsounds]

Well it seems there is a bug or I don't get this.
I set it to 24/192 (on a PC) and when I play the first song it turns on all three LEDs. The song is not 24/192, it's 24/96.
It never switches to less LEDs after that.

That's normal. The number of lights that are on reflects the audio settings, not the source. In this case it's indicating that its playing your 24/96 files upsampled at 192Khz (because that's what you have in settings). Set it to 96Khz in the settings and then it'll turn on less lights.

 

[Sineira]

It is "normal" because that's how Windows works, but it's still bad.
 
Upsampling before the DAC is bad. Foobar2000 with WASAPI (and similar) will play the files without upsampling in windows and show the correct LEDs. The player needs to support it.
Hoping ASIO or WASAPI support will be included in the next version of Tidal.

 

[obsidyen]

Just use Wasapi (event). It doesn't force upsampling then.