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  1. I am potentially interested. Not any urgency on my part although I have been of the perspective of transitioning to a much better server. I'm now using a decent but not great SGC SonicTransporter i9 with associated opticalRendu units for the various endpoints. I've really enjoyed watching your posts and amazing audio journey!
  2. Thanks so much for this info - very cool! I have a Linux server - maybe someday there will be a version to work on that too!
  3. Along the lines of does PGGB improve the sound or not on a given system - or perhaps on a given system for bad recordings - I wonder if there's been any sense of when a realtime version of PGGB might manifest. I know ZB had discussed this possibility back aways and it's of course a very difficult task and likely wouldn't achieve what the non-realtime version of PGGB can do but it sure would be cool! Personally I find PGGB definitely improves the sound on two of my systems and I haven't even explored as much the newer version of PGGB (I have it but have been sidetracked with other tasks) and I expect even better results there. I do listen to a lot of Qobuz and Tidal content that I don't own and it would be great to be able to process that with some version of PGGB at some point. Along other lines - here's a question for folks: One of my systems (Chord Dave DAC with DC4 power supply) can do 16x (768K) content, but my other system (Devialet 220 Pro Core Infinity) can only do 192K (although it can accept somewhat higher SR files or Roon can do the downconversion from 7xxK). I will conduct this experiment at some point, but since I'd like to do only one PGGB upsampling and then listen on all my systems - do folks find that at PGGB conversion to 192K (from 44K to 96K source) would be much different than a conversion to 7xxK and then have the device (Devialet or Roon) downsample to 192K?? Thanks for your thoughts!
  4. I just got my capacitor board for my Dave but have not installed it yet - but am looking forward to the upgrade! I have the Sean Jacobs DC4 for my Dave but do not have the ARC6 upgrade. I know this upgrade is a good one, but not in the cards for me at the moment. That said, the DC4 was a huge upgrade to the sound of my Dave!
  5. I'm definitely in the camp (with @austinpop and others) that while Roon has IMO the best UI (and I haven't been having noticeable slowdowns), I also find that other means of sourcing the content to my systems do sound better than Roon. The difference is noticeable but not huge so I still use Roon for most listening, but for critical (especially headphone system) listening, I don't use Roon. My hope is that perhaps the coming (maybe coming soon?) Roon 2.0 might address the SQ issue.
  6. I do the same, Dave HF filter off, PGGB noise filter at minimum. As a side note I also leave off the Dave “crossfeed” settings for headphone use as they significantly negatively impact sound quality from my perspective.
  7. Curious on all the Pink Floyd new 96K/24 releases (specifically Qobuz), are folks finding them to be the best yet digital versions or not necessarily. I recently bought Dark Side of the Moon but haven't been able to PGGB process and listen quite yet. The reason I ask this is that sometimes original CDs are actually better (likely better masters) than even recent HD digital versions of various albums. Hope the Pink Floyd albums are great in HD!
  8. Great review Rajiv! Thanks! I find it quite interesting that while you heard notable differences between the various headphones (and amps) you used, no one totally in every respect blew away the others. This is a tribute to the excellence of all the gear (headphones and amps) at the highend now!
  9. ZB, I just now read about the PGGB-RT and this is exciting! That said, I use a Mac and know that this is not supported now, but wondering if there's a possible path to the RT version on a Mac at some point or are there aspects to this (of course including Foobar) that are limited to Windows only? Thanks - and I love my offline PGGB!
  10. So does the MScaler processing (24 bit noise shaping and maybe dithering?) not interfere with the PGGB 24 bit dithering? Also, I do use these files to playback on other systems via Roon and unfortunately am forced to convert everything to 192K sample rate. I was using 32 bit no noise shaping PGGB upsampling so that the extra bits could be used by Roon for optimal sample rate conversion to 192K (sometimes not power of 2 conversions), but perhaps 24 bit dithering only is close to the same as 32 bit no dithering or noise sampling even for Roon? I thought that Roon would also do dithering on sample rate changes... I know these are likely small changes but if I'm going to reprocess everything it would be nice to be optimal SQ for all my system flows. Thanks!
  11. Cool! Question: If I'm going from server > SRC-DX (via USB) > MScaler (via dual BNC) > Dave (via Dual BNC), should I enable dithering with this new 2.1.05 PGGB or not? Earlier you had clarified that the best option for this (temporary for me) setup is to do 32 bit 16FS upsampling with NO noise shaping (given that the MScaler always noise shapes to 24 bits no matter what it's sent as an input even if it doesn't upsample). But I just wanted to clarify whether or not to do dithering only. Likely nothing at 32 bits matters given the 24 bit truncation of the SRC-DX. Also, since I'm using my M1 Macbook Pro, should I still stick with 1 worker or does is this new version more optimal with extra workers? Thanks for clarifying!
  12. Might you someday pursue the Raal SR1a (even though you listen mostly to your speaker setup)?
  13. For me it's mostly Qobuz (via Sublime subscription), next is Native DSD, Bandcamp or HDTracks. I do really like it when the actual nature of the recording is noted (i.e. is it DXD, DSD, and if so what rates natively, etc.) Since I now use PGGB for upsampling (with Dave DC4 DAC), I am buying a lot more music in general and then processing (gargle blasting) it with PGGB. That said, I'll almost always go for the HD version of something, but even 16/44K version processed with PGGB is so much better than almost anything else available streaming or otherwise. That's why I buy a lot more music now.
  14. Thanks! And I assume that the SRC-DX does not do any sort of noise shaping itself? Seems it wouldn't given not much (or any) processing ability, but I'm not sure. For now, I'll run with 32 bit non-noise-shaped outputs and then down the road if I do ever go direct from SRC-DX to Dave I'll just re-gargle-blast the files with 24 noise-shaped output. And just in case anyone knows: Does Roon do any sort of noise-shaping when doing downsampling (either power of 2 or non-power-of-2) downconversion to 192K from 7xxK PGGB files? I think it does for upsampling, but don't know about downsampling. This only matters for my Roon listening (not my highest SQ listening) mode.
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