Hi, teddytejero. I just added you to the list. Please keep us posted on your experiences with the Auditor and M1 DAC, positives or negatives. If you have any questions, fire away. We can't promise you answers, but we're a diverse lot and may be able to help.
Hello BoyZ & Gurlz,
My Auditor & M1 DAC by Musical Fidelity are in place and I´m currently listening to ´Alice in chains - Frogs´ unplugged.
The HD 800 sings and all is good.
Since you asked to fire away any questions .... M1 DAC is connected with optical cable to my laptop (Acer 8940G)
If I try to change the windows 7 ultimate digital audio HD driver to 2 channel 24bit 192hz the sound is corrupted and beeps
trough the headphone (24bit - 96Hz is ok)
edit :
stupid me ... "
The M1 DAC will handle 24-bit/192kHz material through its coaxial and AES/EBU inputs, and is limited to 24-bit/96kHz through everything else – a fairly typical state of affairs at the moment."
I´m using mediamonkey (and dfx) with the standard output driver (there is also a WASAPI output driver available / can't install under win7)
The audio performance is very bright perhaps al little to bright ... airy ... I miss some warmness
I also installed winamp5 with the maiko plugin and tried to let mediamonkey use winamp as dedicated player -crash-
The winamp is actually warmer and less intensive on my ears (due to the maiko output plugin?) can't get dfx to work but bass is prominent
Enjjoying the 'gravedigger song' from Dave Matthews Band live performance .... I'm 46 and normally don't sing-along but can't resist .... "gravedigger if you dig my grave ... make it shallow ... so I can hear the rain "
Then my wive closes the door !
Some issues I got from other forums :
put volume of "exclusive" mode hd driver max
use 16 bit 44.1 hz output to upsampling DAC
turn off all other audio users (system, mike, ...)