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Bit of this, bit of that
Yes, that's what it must be. Because I disagree with you the fault must lie with me. It's so obvious now you've highlighted it.Your unit must have some kind of defect.
(I'm not joking).
Yes, that's what it must be. Because I disagree with you the fault must lie with me. It's so obvious now you've highlighted it.Your unit must have some kind of defect.
(I'm not joking).
Yes, that's what it must be. Because I disagree with you the fault must lie with me. It's so obvious now you've highlighted it.
Thanks. I’ll perhaps purchase one. They are under a £100 now so I can always resell it if it doesn’t do it for me.Hi Del Monaco,
Sorry, can't help you as I've never heard a Meridian 2...
Could you name these other dacs for me please?I had the Meridian 2 for a while, most £100-200 non-MQA DACs will walk all over it. Some bargains to be had on the second hand market.
using 82 with superlink mod, TPSC, 2 x 250 / Kudos C2 ... so no, not earbuds!
MQA is around 17/60, so lossy if the master resolution was anything above 16/44.1.
This is a good read:
MQA: A Review of controversies, concerns, and cautions.
February 25, 2018
Archimago, for Computer Audiophile
https://www.computeraudiophile.com/...-of-controversies-concerns-and-cautions-r701/
That is not true. If you start with a 24/96 studio master and put it through the MQA encode/decode process you do not get the original 24/96 file. There is no dispute about this. MQA claim that the difference is inaudible, which it may be, but they accept that there is a difference. If you want genuine Studio Master quality you can either buy it from the likes of Linn and Hyperion and Qobuz, or stream it directly from Qobuz Sublime +. What seems particularly sneaky about MQA is that the undecoded MQA is worse than CD quality - about 13bits according to some.
If you like MQA, you could use Roon to conduct software decoding, as I believe they added Linn DS support recently.
I think if you have found something that to your ears is better than your Klimax DS then you should sell that and use your £100 DAC and be happy.
After all you want MQA, you want a better control point, you prefer the sound and the control point to the Klimax DS system.
No need to be sarcastic...
I'm serious. Have you tried the comparison using another unit?
John - with the same source file be that 16/44.1 or 24/192 or anything in between the DS sounds significantly better, as you would expect. However, my frustration & the point I'm making is that, when Tidal offers hi res via MQA - decoding this with the Tidal desktop app & outputting through my £100 dac, sounds better than the 16/44.1 version through the DS
Yes, sounds the same, tried the plus that sounds the same too.
I run it with an lt3083 into four parallel lt3045 psu, that made a tiny difference.
Ok. I guess that reinforces the idea that the way one listens to recorded music and what one values can be really disparate.
Or that you've got magic ears...