beammeup
pfm Member
I have recently purchased a used Qutest (from eBay) - to evaluate and then sell on for little loss if I don't get on with it.
I need to give it a chance by setting it up for best sound quality - I do have a high quality PSU (which I acquired from this forum) for starters.
I understand I am getting ahead of myself a little here because I haven't even listened to it yet in standard form - it arrived in the post yesterday. Right now I am messing around with a Squeezebox Touch so could use the digital out of the Touch to the Chord - this may not be the ultimate transport for the Chord though - the SBT just happens to be conveniently on the rack while I'm messing about with it.
There seems to be tips and tricks such as using HQPlayer which can up-sample - and even (somehow) be used to bypass the filters in the Qutest if the right sampling rate is selected from HQPlayer (making the Chord a filterless DAC in essence - I could be wrong).
I've never used HQPlayer before, but looking at this link here: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...oon-sotm-200-ultra-neo-is-this-even-possible/ there is a Qutest reference in the configuration.
I also have an Sotm 200 ultra which could be used as an NAA endpoint - because the NUC upstairs will run HQPlayer sending music to the NAA endpoint - assuming that you can only stream to an endpoint if it has NAA capabilities (you can't just stream from HQPlayer to DLNA for example).
I don't have nor intend to use Roon.
I need to give it a chance by setting it up for best sound quality - I do have a high quality PSU (which I acquired from this forum) for starters.
I understand I am getting ahead of myself a little here because I haven't even listened to it yet in standard form - it arrived in the post yesterday. Right now I am messing around with a Squeezebox Touch so could use the digital out of the Touch to the Chord - this may not be the ultimate transport for the Chord though - the SBT just happens to be conveniently on the rack while I'm messing about with it.
There seems to be tips and tricks such as using HQPlayer which can up-sample - and even (somehow) be used to bypass the filters in the Qutest if the right sampling rate is selected from HQPlayer (making the Chord a filterless DAC in essence - I could be wrong).
I've never used HQPlayer before, but looking at this link here: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/...oon-sotm-200-ultra-neo-is-this-even-possible/ there is a Qutest reference in the configuration.
I also have an Sotm 200 ultra which could be used as an NAA endpoint - because the NUC upstairs will run HQPlayer sending music to the NAA endpoint - assuming that you can only stream to an endpoint if it has NAA capabilities (you can't just stream from HQPlayer to DLNA for example).
I don't have nor intend to use Roon.