Mr Wensleydale

Great! I look forward to it.

Josh, Rhino has recently released its Quadio of The World Is A Ghetto and the blu-ray contains a new hi-res stereo mastering alongside the quad. Will you be updating your TBVO to include the new stereo option?

Great! I eagerly await your thoughts.

@JoshM Josh, will you be updating this to include your thoughts on the recently released MFSL SACD?

Thanks Josh - another wonderful article. Amazon UK have the Gastwirt mastering here for £6.49. Just picked up a copy.

Would be very interested to read your thoughts on The Yes Album, in particular the MFSL Gold CD. Have really enjoyed your articles. Great work!

So, the article implies that listening via a computer and listening via a “serious” home audio system are mutually exclusive. What nonsense!

Thank you @sbenyo and @MirinStereo You have both given me plenty to think about and research and I appreciate your feedback. I think I will try and build my own computer. Sounds like a fun project!

I've found this thread very interesting as I too have a T+A DAC8 DSD and would like to be able to use HQPlayer at DSD512. At present I am running Roon on my desktop i5 which can do DSD256 albeit without the nice filters that HQPlayer offers. So, I've decided to buy / build a PC that is capable of running HQPlayer. The former option seems expensive and I have no experience of the latter, so @sbenyo your efforts have been very helpful. It would seem that the 1920x Threadripper is a good place to start, but I have a couple of questions: 1) How easy did you find it to build your own machine? Do you perhaps have a link to a useful guide on how to set about it? 2) I'm not interested in gaming, so do you think it would be possible to use cheaper components? For example, would 2 x 8GB RAM be sufficient? Do I need an expensive graphics card? Are there any other areas where I could economise without affecting performance? Any suggestions / help gratefully received!

Just the news I've been waiting for. Fingers crossed!

Ok thanks

Thanks Could it be used as say a Roon endpoint to stream 512 to the T+a, with another computer doing the upsampling duties?

Would the Nimitra from Fidelizer be a suitable alternative to a MRendu? Not the cheapest option, but runs Win10 so should work?

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Thank you for providing such a detailed and helpful response. There are a number of things for me to try here and I will report back in due course. Cheers!