Andrew S.

Are you using W 10 x 64 Larry?

Thanks Larry Its ok - I wound it back to 1.42b and it is fine. I'll leave 1.45 for the time being. Might be a OSX 10.11.3 thing. Also having hiccups with Win 10 Pro 64. It could just be a Win 10 issue as well - having mobo drivers problems with it atm. Mytek won't show up in default devices. Actually none will. The joys of computer audio. Might just load Win 7. Cheers

Yes. Well I have put it in the drawer for the time being. As a dac, it is making a good doorstop atm. I've owned all of the 192 DSD, Brooklyn & Manhattan. I prefer them in that order as well. The Manhattan is a better dac than the Brooklyn, at least without a LPS, in terms of inner detail retrieval, transparency and resolution. Certainly has more features. The Brooklyn is perhaps more involving. HQP + DSD 256 > Manhattan was very good. I liked it alot. For DSD it was behind the Merging Nadac I owned, but not by alot. PCM playback on the Manhattan was better than the Nadac. I don't really care for the tech - I just want something to work and sound good. The Brooklyn has been problematic and I don't remotely care for the Mytek control panel. Certainly the FW doesn't seem sorted yet, whereas the Manhattan was rock solid with ASIO & USB. If someone could see their way clear to sending me 1.44 I would be very grateful.

Already lodged. Sigh. Reminds me why I have quit computer audio for vinyl (again).

I should say my Manhattan was rock solid compared to the Brooklyn, driver wise. It didn't have a control panel. I'm not so keen on dacs that interface via USB...

Aggghhh - nothing more annoying than buggy firmware - 1.45 wouldn't upload, I resorted to uploading from boot-loader and now my Brooklyn is frozen. Anyone know how to reset? Anyone know where to get 1.44? Aggghhh.

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Dear Michael Thanks for posting here; it is great the manufacturer comes on these threads and contributes. I have been very happy with my Manhattan. Excellent converter. I owned a Merging + Nadac. The Merging is an order of life better with DSD, but at Quad DSD, the difference was, I thought, vanishingly small, and not enough to justify the difference in price tag nor the ease of use of the Mytek cf the Nadac. I sold the Nadac and plan on adding a Brooklyn to the arsenal, for a work head fi set up, as they become available. Earlier in the thread I had a moan about Mytek not upgrading the firmware for the Manhattan in Q4 2015, as indicated. I feel with Roon + HQ player integration the need for internal up-sampling has gone, but that the addition of the optional MC/MM board is still of some relevance. My 2 cents. Thanks again. Great product from a great company.

Hi everyone I have for sale my 2 Channel Merging + Nadac. The first in Australia. Universal voltage - 100 - 240v 50/60Hz. It is in mint condition. All factory packaging. Sound quality via DSD is superb. Asking US$7000 Priced to sell quickly. Shipping will be via Fedex - tracked and insured. Shouldn't be more than US$300; if it is, I will pay it. Can package if needed with my 2 TB SSD + mSATA240GB dual LAN totally passive i7 6550 16 GB RAM windows server for another US$2.6k; or US$10k shipped for both. Direct deposit to my bank account in Australia, or we can use a reliable third party escrow if you have any concerns. Thanks. Andrew

I have a Manhattan, and like it very much. It does what it says on the packet. I just wish that Mytek would deliver on their promises for it (updated drivers, new firmware) instead of evidently rushing to market with a new product which evidently has some issues. Seriously can't anyone in the digital world get their act together? Either do what you promise or don't do it.

Thanks. Got it worked out. All good. With the release of 3.12 (thanks Miska!) cpu is under 20%, ram around 10%. Runs cool. Having some hassles implementing fibre across to my nadac, but that is just network issues (NIC adapters etc). Very impressed with the SQ of everything DSPed to DSD 256, via Roon. Cheers Miska.

Yes. So all hooked up and running - converting 16/44 PCM to 256 DSD uses, with all back ground processes running including Roon, between 30 and 37% cpu, and about 10-15% memory (of 16 GB). So really not that cpu intensive with the server version. The heat sink is slightly warm to the touch on the processor side, dead cool on the other and the case is cool. I'll run it over night to simulate a day's listening and see how it goes. Its a balmy 70 - 80 F here atm, summers reach 105 F and very humid but AC will see it live in ~ 70-75 F. As an aside; Getting my head around Win 10 (I use OSX at home and Win 7 at work) was a giant PITA and the Ravenna ethernet protocol isn't very consumer friendly - it is after all designed to be installed under complex studio conditions with lots of in's and out's from many channels to many workstations. I expect a network professional would usually install it. Anyway I managed to work it out. So it cannot be that difficult. Here are two tips - on a dual ethernet windows pc, the Ravenna/Nadac comes up as a public network and LAN as a private. You have to: 1. Disable Windows Firewall & Defender on the public network 2. Enable all permission sharing on the public network. As I want integration with Tidal, I want access to the interwebs, and so for some basic, but effective, protection found that 360 Total Security (which is what I usually run on Windows anyway) to be effective and easily configurable to allow the Merging sw and drivers in & out. Anyway I have a firewall on my router and modem, and tend to use a vpn most of the time, in any event, so risk is relatively small. Worse that happens is they hit my music server, which is very much a dead end. The VPN helps with Tidal in Australia, which otherwsie can suffer drop outs. Although to be fair has been much better of late. I am running it all remotely ie headless, so loaded the Roon server edition + HQ Player, and simply added each program to the start folder to launch at start up. After some more hair pulling they are stable in config. Not so easy on Windows 10, or so it turned out. Mainly because I didn't know where anything was. Bloody UI. So now have two stable ways of playing back files to my Nadac: 1. Roon server edition (no upsampling conversion or dsp - what you put in is what you get out) - Merging ASIO driver - Merging Nadac. 2. Roon server edition - HQ Player (dsp conversion in my case to DSD256 but you can do virtually anything you want including DXD384) - Merging ASIO driver - Merging Nadac (at the dsp'ed DSD256) Of the two, I prefer the second, and by some margin, with all PCM files, whatever their native sample rate. I am agnostic in respect of DSD files, although perceive a more pleasing quality to when DSD 64 files are dsp'ed to DSD 256. CPU load obviously drop in the latter instance. The sound is universal captivating when dsp'ed to DSD 256. It is hard to describe but the closest I have heard to native DSD from PCM. It doesn't transform a poor recording into a great one, but it takes a poor recording and makes it that much more listenable. GIGO as usual. But the GO is neater and sounds much better, in my opinion (and it is just that - my opinion). Mono is still mono. Conversion hasn't been straight forward with that medium. Don't ask me why it should or even could sound better. I haven't a clue. There is 165+ pages on CA dedicated to HQ Player, and I am sure if you asked the question in that thread someone would be only to happy to enter into debate on why and even if it could be so. Just don't ask me - I'm a muppet in respect of CA and even more so when compared to the math PhD's here. I would however go so far as to say the mainstream roll out of Roon + HQ Player integration is a paradigm shift in the audiophile digital landscape, provided you have the gear to hear it. Mind you, I suggest any half competent sabre chipped dac would benefit. In any event, this is the closest I have heard my digital get to great vinyl, which I love. In fact for classical, which I prefer to listen to most of the time, I am leaning toward Roon - HQP - Nadac combo as my preferred playback chain. Lower noise floor, certainly more convenient and has the same (or at least remarkably similar) liquidity and involvement. I will hook up a Mytek Manhattan I own when I get a FW card to slot into my server. One thing at a time. Next trick is to hook up the Nadac via fiber - which should be relatively straightforward. At least in theory. Wish me luck.

Thank you - yes all good, I was mindful of just that issue. I understand HQ Player 3.12 Beta is quite cpu intensive when you convert eg pcm to 256 dsd. Still I don't expect any issues with melting the CPU or frying eggs on the case. I like those Streacom cases - I built a couple of Antipodes clones this years as well (Same mobo, ram & SOtM PCI card + custom linear power supply) and found they work really well. Not that you need heat pipes with Atohm 2800 boards running VB. The 2TB SSD for storage was probably unnecessary and likely redundant, esp with a fiber connection to dac, but I like SSD's and could afford it, so why not. Besides let me pop in a USB/FW card and (hopefully) have a half decent server for those purposes. Oh I see you have the Mytek 192. That is one of my favourite dacs. I happened to have a Manhattan about the place at the moment as well, and feel it is an excellent converter. Pairs extremely well with the Benchmark AHB2 power amp, btw. headphone out is also a star. Recommended.

No I haven't yet. Expect to shortly when I get exposure to it, and teh Horus. I do not expect there to be a significant difference in SQ.

I happen to have one, and am very impressed by the sound quality. It is as close to tape as I have heard. It is stunningly transparent but engaging at the same time. I also have a Manhattan on hand, which is excellent in its own right, but not in the same league as the Nadac. Anyone sporting a Nadac? I should be delighted to hear your impressions.