Miklaszewski

Hi everyone, starting this topic as I need so guidance and cant seem to find the answers I need online. Im currently using an Aries Mini to a DAC, with TIDAL from the Auralic app. As Im seeing everywhere the fuss around the SOTM Ultra, Ive been getting curious to try it out but havent come to it for the simple reason that I cant seem to figure how I would work with it. Reason beeing that I dont use and dont have a computer. Could one work with the sotm and an app on the ipad? THanks

Has anyone tried the beta firmware with a MQA dac? I use the mytek brooklyn and with the beta firmware, as it decodes via software, I cant get native mqa from tidal. Had to reverse to latest build. Is there a way to disable mqa software decoding on the beta firmware?

Are you streaming wirelessly or with an Ethernet cable? I get better sound on my aries with wired connection, specially since I got a truly good Ethernet cable, as they definitivly sound different.

Main logo is always the color you set it to. It's the little mqa icon on the display that must turn on, and it's color is always blue.

Thanks! I stopped feeling the need to upgrade gear after getting the bridge lps. Never thought that day would ever come! Subs are great to compensate the bass from tubes.

It makes a 2k DAC perform on par with far more expensive ones. So it depends on your budget, your gear and what you aim for. Might be worth it, might not. In my case, I got the demo Brooklyn for 1.5k, the power supply for 1k, totalling 2.5k, only 500$ above asking price of the DAC alone. The result imo is worth much more than that.

I fell lucky that I got to buy a Brooklyn DAC, as I think its a great device, and by far the best DAC I have owned so far (past DACs, NAD M51, Chord 2Qute with MCRU LPS). Two reasons made me buy mine at Musicarch bespoke hifi and audio | audiophile equipment | online hifi store, the first being the very good deal they gave me on a demo unit, the second being the owner, Donald, who is one of the nicest, most well informed and serviceable guys I ever came across in the audio gear business. Despite being satisfied with the performance of the DAC, and having had the experience of the unquestionable improvement a linear power supply had brought to my Chord 2Qute (wich was supposed to sound the same with or without a linear power supply - bullshit), and considering the Sbooster PSU, I asked Donald about the Bridge power supply he retails on his website. Although I was already expecting him to tell me wonders about it, the trust he had gotten from me as a costumer made me get one in full confidence. Once I got it, I was obviously nervous as this is not a cheap power supply when compared to the streamlined sbooster ones for ex, but upon approximately 150h (yes, it takes at least that long to come to its own), everything he had told me turn out to be true and even more. The level of quality this power supply brings to this already very very good DAC is astonishing and in my opinion, a must buy. I only wish I could have had the chance to try some others just to be able to claim it performs well above its price, but knowing Donald, and by his experience, I'm pretty sure it does. This is not an endorsed or advertised comment/review. Its only my honest, satisfied costumer, and well deserved feedback on both the products and the shop I got them from, and also an advice for fellow owners of this wonderful DAC and the way to improve it even further. A(u)dios everyone! Aries Mini with Auralic LPS, Mytek Brooklyn DAC with Bridge LPS, Antique Sound Labs Hurricane MK2 monoblocks, XTZ custom speakers and Rel T7 Subwoofers.

Started using it on my usb cable, jitterbug on one end, ipurifier 2 on the other, got less noise, more top detail, better 3d positioning but lost spatiality and tonality. Changed the jitterbug to the hard drive usb port, leaving the usb cable with only the ipurifier on one end, the other end direct to the dac, got all the initial improvements, no downsides, just perfect. On my system, the jitterbug works, ipurifier also, but not when connected together on the same cable. If you can manage to plug the jitterbug on some other usb port, use both, if not, the ipurifier 2 is a far superior upgrade and totally worth it. Aries Mini with Auralic LPS, Mytek Brooklyn DAC with Bridge LPS, Antique Sound Labs Hurricane MK2 monoblocks, XTZ custom speakers and Rel T7 Subwoofers.

try defragmenting the drive, has worked for me

double post, sorry

Made me sell my Nad M51.

I had a NAD M51 and sold it immediatly after getting the Mini with the linear PSU.

You can always buy a linear psu in europe later on.

I tried real hard to convince myself otherwise, been in love with the nad m51 since it came out, but I did some severe switching back and forth, even invited a friend over who's ears I trust as much as mine, and there was no way around it. Better dac, less devices, the reason I do not know, but the mini is producing a more defined sound and a more natural timbre.