i think its predictable the new scaler is causing some apprehension. i say lets just wait to hear it and all will be clear. im looking forward to this as much as i did to hugo 2.
The New Chord Quartet M Scaler Discussion Thread
Red Rd Wolf
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I truly believe it will be special. I will be ready to order and my dealer has a window for returns. Now I just need to find a good price on some Wilson speakers
Progisus
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If you want a flavour of what quartet may sound like, try some pggb files with a gadzillion taps. My mscaler is the goat for streaming but pggb is a significant upgrade.
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The digital input on your studio monitors has RCA or BNC input? Well, that would give you 0.5M taps from HMS.
With QMS that would, probably, give you 2M taps.
In a studio environment it seems to me that the latency added by an M Scaler is problematic.
DaveRedRef-III
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I hope this new Quartet product is not too far off now. I can't help but have high expectations, having listened to and owned many Chord products over the last 20+years.
In the meantime, I just thought I would mention this outstanding work by Elina Garanca. It is a beautiful body of work and utterly sublime in parts.
Qobuz do a 24bit 96khz download too
In the meantime, I just thought I would mention this outstanding work by Elina Garanca. It is a beautiful body of work and utterly sublime in parts.
Qobuz do a 24bit 96khz download too
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ecwl
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Cool. Just listened to Elina Garanca live in Hong Kong when I was on vacation a few weeks ago. Even my 82-year-old father who is not into classical music enjoyed the concert.
Seasons greetings to all fellow Head-Fi members and to your families. Wishing all a very Merry Christmas filled with joy, laughter and happy memories. Santa is on his way wearing his Focal Bathys... I hope he brings everyone what they wished for..... Happy holidays everyone....
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GuiltyRocker
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Thank you sir, to you and your family as well.
@Rob Watts once you said a 768khz file sounds like an mscaled one. So does the a 44.1khz quartet scaled version sound better than a native 768khz recording?
Beyond The Blackwall
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That would be impossible. Quartet only increases the accuracy of the calculated samples.
GuiltyRocker
Headphoneus Supremus
Yup, it increases the accuracy of the interpolation filter and therefore transient reconstitution, I think Rob was down to 88 nanoseconds accuracy between sample points witn the current M scaler, I wonder how much further the Quartet takes it.
DaveRedRef-III
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I like to highlight well mastered recordings whenever I come across them. This 2022 mastering of Peggy Lee Recordings from 1958 is impressively good imo. The crazy thing is that it is currently selling for 87p! (To Qobuz members)
Enjoy
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/s...eting&qbzs=crm&qbzc=TR_download_order_summary
Enjoy
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/s...eting&qbzs=crm&qbzc=TR_download_order_summary
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Jawed
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@Rob Watts I'm wondering if you would consider adding a second kind of EQ into Quartet M Scaler: For people with speakers, EQ above about 300Hz is not much use, apart from setting a general tilt. Primarily with speakers the interest is in EQ below a room's Schroeder frequency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_acoustics#Frequency_zones
For my room it's about 300Hz but typically it's in the range of 100 to 200Hz, larger rooms having this lower.
So instead of having EQ that is available as 10 bands spread fairly evenly across the full audio range, which is good for headphones, it might be useful to have a second range defined for frequencies biased towards the bass range, with only say 2 or 3 EQ bands above 300Hz.
Naturally there are limits to the usefulness of bass EQ. Nulls or dips are not going to benefit much if at all, but peaks, e.g. at 50, 75, 100 and 150Hz could be readily tamed.
So a set of EQ bands biased towards bass frequencies would be a nice alternative for speaker users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_acoustics#Frequency_zones
For my room it's about 300Hz but typically it's in the range of 100 to 200Hz, larger rooms having this lower.
So instead of having EQ that is available as 10 bands spread fairly evenly across the full audio range, which is good for headphones, it might be useful to have a second range defined for frequencies biased towards the bass range, with only say 2 or 3 EQ bands above 300Hz.
Naturally there are limits to the usefulness of bass EQ. Nulls or dips are not going to benefit much if at all, but peaks, e.g. at 50, 75, 100 and 150Hz could be readily tamed.
So a set of EQ bands biased towards bass frequencies would be a nice alternative for speaker users.
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