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  1. View Classified Merason Frerot Lightly used Merason Frerot. High quality DAC from a Swiss company. Has two RCA SPDIF inputs, two Toslink, and one USB. XLR and RCA analog outputs. Comes with the original box and original power supply. Seller misterspense Date 02/05/24 Price 850.00 USD Category Digital to Analog Converters  
  2. View Classified Smsl D300 DAC Used for 2 weeks, as new condition. SMSL D300 dac, with ROHM dac chip. Fully working. Paid 388 euros for it, asking price 275 euro. Seller misterspense Date 07/29/23 Price 300.00 USD Category Digital to Analog Converters  
  3. This shyness in the bass, is this something that improves when upsampling? Or is it always present?
  4. View Classified iFi Zen stream iFi Zen Stream. In very good condition. Comes in original box with all accessories. Note, this version does not have the ipower supply. Seller misterspense Date 12/29/22 Price 320.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers  
  5. View Classified Lake People DAC RS 06 D/A converter from German manufacturer of Lake people and Violectric. This is a sort of scaled down Violectric V850 DAC. It's four weeks old and in very good condition (as new). Seller misterspense Date 08/17/22 Price 400.00 USD Category Digital to Analog Converters  
  6. Just updating an old topic. I have been using the eRED dock for almost a year now. It sounds better to me than an Allo Digione (non signature). Note, that is even with the Allo as Roon endpoint or Squeezelite, and the eRED on Roon via airplay. I've bought a 5V SBooster power supply for it, but strange enough I prefer a switchmode power supply with it. So long for expectation bias. I have build the eRED dock into the housing of a SOtM sms-100, connected it to the internal power board, and attached a medical grade 12V supply to that. Sounds best this way to me, better that the 5V SBooster directly connected to the eRED. I can recommend using the RooExtend / rooUPnP software. After some troubleshooting with my home network, at first RooExtend did not find the eRED, it is now working almost flawlessly. The RooExtend finds the eRED within a minute, and I can stream from Roon to the eRED as if it was a Squeezelite endpoint. Strange thing is, in rooUPnP settings only mp3 audio format gives sound. Options Flac/Transparent/PCM don't work. Still mp3 sounds very good, and with a spectral analyser I have measured content above 18kHz, so I don't think the music is converted to mp3 at all. When I play an internet radio stream, the spectral analyzer (on my phone) shows a cut off at 16 or 18 kHz. When I play local lossless music, the content goes all the way up to almost 22kHz. I've send a mail to Engineered (company that makes the eRED) if they will support more than only airplay and upnp. I know that Roon ready is out of reach, but there is so much more that can be desired. For instance Spotify connect, Tidal connect. And Squeezelite would provide pretty good sound quality and is also Roon compatible. The answer I got back was that Spotify and Tidal connect are on their wish list, but they don't have a planning yet when and if it will be released. Squeezelite was not on their list.
  7. And off course it's not entirely passive with two big fans right above it.
  8. There is a difference in bits and bytes. One byte is 8 bits. The mp3 bitrate is typically in kbps, or kilo bits per second, while network traffic mostly is displayed in kBps, or kilo byte per second.
  9. You can try rooextend. With that software you can use a certain type microsoft remote with Roon. You do need an extra RPi for it, and some setting up.
  10. View Classified MSI Cubi 3 Silent - 004BEU MSI Cubi 3 silent. Small computer, silent no fan. Intel core i5 - 7200U 2.50GHz processor. Comes with 8GB Crucial memory installed. Has been used with Gentooplayer, Audiolinux, Euphony. By USB drive or Optane drive. (Not included). It has the original protection foil still on. It has been used, but is in good shape. Comes in the original box, original power supply (EU connector) and 8GB RAM installed. Seller misterspense Date 05/19/21 Price 250.00 USD Category Computers / Networking Gear  
  11. View Classified Grimm TPR analog RCA cable RCA cable, 0.5 meter length, stereo pair. Made by the importer/maker. In very good state. New price 63 euro, or 77 USD. Seller misterspense Date 05/19/21 Price 50.00 USD Category Cables  
  12. What are you powering your eRed docks with? Does it respond well to a better powersupply? On the board there is some conversion from 5V to 3.3V. So I wonder if a higher quality 5V PSU makes sense or adds enough, when the board itself again brings it down to 3.3V. I've build it into the case of a SoTM SMS-100, the SoTM died on me after all those years. It has a switching DC converter with buffering, and outputs 5V, that is connected to the eRed board. Input can accept approx. 7V to 12V without problem. In this case I don't hear a lot of differences between PSU's.
  13. I think Darko mentioned the "Xiaomi mi tv box s" as an alternative to the chromecast audio. It is compatible with chromecast, and has an optical 3.5mm mini toslink output.
  14. You could have a look at Gentooplayer, a very nice OS option with Roon installed. I also have Euphony installed on an optane drive, and don't like to de/re-installing everything to compare them, but from a usb stick Gentooplayer already sounds very good. Maybe even better than Euphony.
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