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If you accept to use the lightest modulators (AHM5EC5L and AHM7EC5L), you can play DSD1024 on a Mac Mini M1 2020. See here:

I noticed that the 'Random' tickbox of HQP Client does not seem to be working when used in the context of Qobuz playlists. So not sure if this is possible, but I would be happy to be able to shuffle tracks in a Qobuz playlist from the HQP Client. Also, when playing Classical Music with very long track titles, it would be useful for me to be able to reduce the image of the album to a small icon in order to be able to display the full titles in the right hand side list. Thank you.

Hello Jussi, I really enjoyed all the new developments you released this past year, especially the new DSD1024 modulators. I also appreciate that you continue maintaining the Fedora release of your products. For all this I would like to express my gratitude. Wish you and everyone here a fantastic year 2024.

Do you expect the Holo Cyan to sound differently from Holo Spring and Holo May, knowing that they share the same lineage, and that they display similar SINAD according to the sellers' claims ?

The answer to this question is, IMO, more emotional than technical. Technicaly, the Cyan 2 seems to be at the level of the Spring 3 in terms of SINAD on the DSD channel. So this could be a real DSD giant killer. But as you have witnessed with your A26 and DSD256 modulators, the techno offered by Jussi already delivers a perfect reproduction of music at this stage. I am not sure you will get anything more with the DSD512 modulators given that you have your Benchmark amp. At least I have not been able to witness such benefits in the same configuration. Would the DSD1024 modulators provide you with more emotions, a better engagement to music, to the price of a least perfect technical reproduction ? This is what happened to me one week ago when I discovered them. If I may, it's probably better to wait for this Holo Cyan to be available in Europe, with the return possibilities offered by EU laws, and judge by yourself listening to it... than to make a decision based on measurements which will not tell you anything...

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@Miska : any comment on the architecture of this DAC which would help us understand whether you believe this will be a good pick for HQPlayer fans in search of a "reasonably" priced application HW ?

Can you check the IPv6 metric of your windows ethernet interface and make sure it is 100 as I suggested ?

Not sure where they are with this request, especially with GP as a target, but at the beginning, they were requiring the IPv6 metric to be manually set at 100 in the Windows ethernet driver...

Not using Diretta anymore but I used to. Have you been successful using your target as an NAA for HQPlayer (not adding the Diretta communication layer) ? This would be the first step for a proper diagnosis. Once you have this part under control, you can try to change the communication from NAA to Diretta. This will allow you to assess a direct comparison. Be aware though that, if you did not purchase the Diretta licence on your GP target, you will be allowed to play upsampled music for only 6 minutes, after which you need to relaunch the target Diretta driver...

you might try "sudo systemctl restart hqplayerd" and check whether this improves. In case not, please try "sudo systemctl status hqplayerd" and report to Jussi.

I'm not sure how you are mounting your shared folder. I am personally using something like this: Creating the mount point: sudo mkdir /mnt/nas/music sudo chown myuser:myuser /mnt/nas/music then in /etc/fstab: //192.168.1.xx/music /mnt/nas/music cifs credentials=/home/myuser/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,_netdev 0 0 where .smbcredential is a file that contains my login and password on the NAS. I am then checking, as Jud has reminded, that sudo mount -a does not throw errors. Then I am doing sudo chmod -R a+r /mnt/nas/music to make sure that read authorisations have propagated correctly along the directories. And I am all set. Can you describe how you are mounting your shared folder, which format it has, if you have the read permissions on every folder/subfolder in it....

There are three things I find particularly exciting about the arrival of the Cyan 2 at Holo: 1. the price/performance ratio: with the Spring 3, we already had, as testers agree, 90% of the May's performance for 50% of its price. With the Cyan 2, we're likely to get 90% of the Spring's performance for half the price, i.e. 80% of the May's performance for just 25% of the price. In my opinion, this is a fantastic step forward in the accessibility of quality musical reproduction... 2. with this type of device, you retain total control over digital signal processing. If you want to listen to PCM in 44.1kHz without touching it at all, you have an R2R network that reproduces PCM without passing through a DSP, as do most DACs on the market (very few DACs reproduce the PCM format without touching it, see here: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic...nt=1254269). If you have software like HQPlayer, or any other software with the same functions, you can choose the digital processing you want to impose on your music; choose your filter for upsampling, choose your noise-shaper for PCM and your modulator for DSD. There's absolutely no need to be bound by the choices made by the DAC manufacturer in this respect. And you don't have to change your DAC, at the cost of significant economic losses, to change your sound presentation, within the limits of R2R technology. You can make settings adapted to each type of music you listen to, or change presentation according to your mood. 3. you don't need a degree in computer science or an in-depth interest in computers to get a taste of all this. As I have personally observed, the latest 'classic' HQPlayer modulators allow you, on a 2020 Mac Mini M1, to go comfortably up to DSD256 and in most cases up to DSD512. With HQPlayer's 'experimental' modulators, you can even produce DSD1024 on this little machine, which is also very environmentally friendly (approx. 50w in operation). You can connect the DAC directly to the Mac's USB port and output in DSD/DoP256. Or, if you're more resourceful, you can use a small NAA, such as an RPi4 with a Shanti power supply, and get a taste of DSD1024. Finally, with time, and still without changing equipment, you can add an optical bridge to isolate the DAC perfectly, etc... To sum up, this DAC, and no doubt others to come with the same external DSP concept, opens up a space of access to very high-level music reproduction, freedom in music presentation, and evolution without changing equipment, which is both economically efficient and eco-responsible. Admittedly, it is of Chinese origin, which will make a few people cringe, but that's okay... For laziness purpose, I used DeepL.com (free version) to translate most of this content. I apologise for that 🙃

A last idea on my side: what is the format of your volume ? Are you able to see the individual files inside the directories and to check that the reading rights are the same as the directories (ie r for all groups) ? Have you tried sudo chmod -R a+r /mnt/share/htpc