Even the expensive groundsound dcn28 is limited to 96KS/s and doesn't even offer FIR filters, i worked with it for a short period and it didn't sound good either. Active XO to subwoofers does make sense though but you do not need expensive digital filterd for that.
That's a generous offer but i think i will decline it and just get one finished dac.
Funny how we value features differently, my listening is 0% YouTube.
Agree it is better to leave that for when some of us have first hand experience with the SS9028Pros MDAC2+streamer+Touch display and spdif that some need.
I trust your measurements and facts more than your feelings, you never explains how the PMD would be better, seams like money and effort will be spent to make the mdac2 worse with later iterations.
I assume the tests whern't blind, i suggest you do some proper (blind) AB testing, i do not have proper testing environment for that(my computer isn't totally quiet, no good speakers, bad amp).
Actually -more like 120dB with XLR and probably at or beyond the limits of Archimago's measurements
Wow, this seems surprisingly similar to the base MDAC2 feature set (ADC, streamer, form factor, etc.). I guess that's the next "evolution" step in ~$1000 DAC boxes, though missing out on the headphone output would be a step backwards, in my opinion.
If that is the case i no longer see any valid reason to get the mdac2, sure it lacks a few options(dac filters and headphone jack) but i still want my money back. Remember: this is a dac for 800$.
I am pretty sure it was placebo, i do not really want to be honest now but this is insanity.
Apologies, I have no doubt this has been covered, but things change so quickly over here
I am really interested in 'getting into' some form of room correction. I stream music from LMS/Squeezebox setup. Via USB to my MDAC (for now, awaiting MDAC2). I also have analogue. Currently, both MDAC and phono are amplified via an ATC SIA2-150 into Impulse H2's. My listening room is not ideal. the room is laid out like this: (BTW I have speakers in position A but toed in)
I think the bass and the forward treble (somewhat controlled by PAC's magic work on the crossovers) in these speakers could be better tamed with some DRC. The question is with the planned MDAC2 with Streamer will there be any way to do this in the digital domain.
I have been reading up on this last few days, so am a complete newbie to this. But the most interesting option to me is to try using something like REW to measure and then produce filters for BruteFIR which I think I can 'plugin' to LMS. But I may be way wrong. the advantage of this approach is it would happen upstream of MDAC2. is there another way?
The Oppo sonica DAC does not have an ADC but if you just want a dac without any headphone jack it seams to be fine. Another limitation is that it only supports 2 channels but good multichannel processors cost a lot of money.
