Jimmy3993

Yes this I kinda what I was wondering / thinking. With the a10 there is no digital cable and a nice remote. And no preamp. And I should be able to get 1k for the Berkeley as old as it is. I just owned about the dac quality in the a10. Glad to hear someone vouch for it. i placed a bid on an n10 over on a’gon. If it goe at my price Im sure I will be happy with it. If not there is an a10 listed as well.

Hi folks. I’m going to pull the trigger on an aurender and I’m trying to figure out which way to go about selecting the right model. my system is currently an original Berkeley alpha dac running w/o a pre amp to an ancient pair of Rowland design group monoblocks (5 series as I recall. Very old but sound great to me) out to a pair of audio physic scorpios. I listen to a range of stuff from Tool to Tori Amos. most of what I listen to comes from tidal which is what got me hooked on aurender along with the app. i am curious if anyone has ever had the chance to a/b the a10 against the n10. I plan to select one or the other. I like the simplicity of the a10 (I’m not one to tinker once I get my system set up the way that’s I like it) and if I’m not giving anything up sonically vs the n10 w my Berkeley I will just get the a10. there I see also the n100 I know but then I am either getting the usb converter box from Berkeley or using the hiface product and from what I read the n100 is a noticeable step back from the n10. I that DACs are a constantly evolving tech but again, if the current a10 dac product is as good or better than my Berkeley then that is good enough for me. thx in advance. I feel there isn’t consensus I will track a dealer down and see about auditioning them both. But honestly I’d prefer to buy used if possible and won’t bother a dealer if I’m not going to buy from them.

I'm getting an odd result with the new update. I am running OSx - usb - chord mojo out to powered monitors on my desktop. Streaming settings are exclusive, and force volume. When I play the MQA content I get the green light from the mojo indicating 96khz. Regardless of the " pass through mqa" selection that I make. All good so far. But when I switch back to "non-mqa" tidal selections, the music plays but at a dramatically reduced pace. Like 1/8th speed. I get the red light for 44khz but the pace is crazy slow. Now if I go back to the "pass thorough mqa" selection and toggle it to the opposite of whatever I had it on, the pace of play rights itself. Also, when I go back to mqa, I get the green light again but now the music is played at a dramatically fast pace. Like chipmunks. Once again toggling the "pass though mqa" fixes the problem.]Anyone else have this crazy thing happening?

With powered monitors like the dynaudio X14a, I can just turn the mojo up till the sound quality suffers or the wife complains right?

jitterbug is on the way. Thanks of the idea. Now that I have the tidal app running these is noticeably better to my ears than iTunes or iTunes / tidal from my phone. might be the source quality though. Tidal app on the desktop seems like a better quality source than the iPhone app on my phone. It is certainly growing on me. And the vol control on the mojo seems fine even at lower levels. Makes actually getting work done at my desk a challenge as I find myself zoning out. Good stuff. playing more with the desktop app, mojo seems to think that it is getting 192kHz from the computer on tidal vs standard 44kHz from desktop iTunes or anything coming from my phone. Do y'all have the same experience?

beeeeeeeeecauuuuuuuse up until the exact moment that i read your post i didn't know that there was such a thing. Found the app and all fixed now. sounds pretty good through the mojo. not as good as the berkely though. bot for the price it sounds just fine. might be giving something up with the digital volume control on the mojo. Right now I have the vol all the way up on the tidal app and am controlling sound level with the mojo's vol as I don't have any other sort of pre in the system. Anyways thanks for pointing out the app. I looked a while back in the app store and didn't find it. Honestly, I am amazed that i can get a computer to play music at all. I'm too old!

Hi all. changed my desktop setup and I am having problems. Tidal HIFI is my preferred source. Running in Chrome on an IMac. USB out to a Chord Mojo out to powered Dynaudio monitors. I am not getting any sound though. I can use itunes and the setup works fine. I can access Tidal via Safari and the system works fine (just lower res as the only way to get what tidal calls "hifi" is via Google Chrome. Am I missing something obvious ? (i hope!) I tried connecting via M2Tech HIFACE so that the usb was converted to spdif and then ran that into the berkeley dac from my main system and that worked with Google Chrome and tidal hifi so I am thinking that there is some sort of problem with tidal / google chrome and the usb connection to the mojo. I will try and track down a mini spdif to try running from the hiface to the mojo and see if that plays but if anyone knows of a setting that i need to change or a simple fix to get google chrome / tidal to output usb to the mojo I would be grateful! thx

Windows 10 installing now. The fidelizer software goes on the pc right?

Cornan- looks like I am running Windows 7. I will see about upgrading to 10.

Ok cornan. Tablet ordered (boy are those cheap!). Once it arrives I will instal app bubble app. In the mean time I will instal server software. I might need to come back to you for help getting things to talk to each other. Thx!

Haha!!! Thx y'all. I translate your responses into my level of technical ability to read: "no.". I was hoping that something like the software used by aurender or Aurelic to run tidal on their device from an app on my iPhone was available. I have used a Remote Desktop application in the past and yes, it was clunky. For now I will stick with Bluetooth keyboard I guess. I could look at a Bluetooth receiver with a digital output that I could hook up to the Berkeley but my guess is the sq would be compromised.

Been gone for a while. I use TIDAL primarily as a source via lynx card to a berkley get 1 doc (I know, very 2009 of me...) Does anyone know of a way to control the desktop server PC from an iPhone app? It would allow me to keep the tv / monitor off. thx!

Gotcha. I think I will include a second drive on the new server just in case. They have gotten so cheap over the past few years that I might as well just in a case I get better sound out of having the files local on the server. The only other uses for the files around the house are not critical in terms of quality.

Thx Paul (as he hits head repeatedly on desk...) didn't occur to me that they would have signature sounds. Not sure why it didn't though as everything else does. Still, if the USB converters aren't so sonically superior to my current PC/lynx setup as to make my MacBook (set up properly of course) sound better then it arguably wouldn't be worth the $2k cost to change over.

Thanks. So smallish ssd in the server. Ethernet to router. NAS also attached to router. USB out from server? Seems like there is a lot of room for things to go wrong with the music files having to travel between so many boxes but I guess not.