miguelito Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Considering a Rossini DAC. Features are all I care about (RoonReady, Spotify built-in, upsampling selections, etc). Don't particularly care about price as long as it's below say 35k USD. Anyone has compared the Rossini with others in that range? If so, in what kind of a system (ie tubes/ss pre/amp, dynamic/electrostatic/horn speakers). Thank you! NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
miguelito Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 Nada de nada? NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
Popular Post EuroDriver Posted April 10, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted April 10, 2017 Hi miguelito, I have e-mailed you regarding our revised DAC rankings. HQP 3.16 has changed the SQ competive landscape quite considerably Best Ed Jim Hench and miguelito 2 Sound Test, Monaco Consultant to Sound Galleries Monaco, and Taiko Audio Holland e-mail [email protected] Link to comment
miguelito Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 4 hours ago, EuroDriver said: I have e-mailed you regarding our revised DAC rankings. HQP 3.16 has changed the SQ competive landscape quite considerably Thx Edward. Always very helpful! NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
RubenV Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Could you share these revised dac ranking? Thanks in advance! Mobile: iPhone 6s 128Gb > Chord Hugo > Shure 846 Stereo: PPA dual streamer setup with JPlay and AO > Lampizator Golden Gate SE > Classe Omega Preamp MKII > 2xNord On UP NC500DM > Linkwitz LX521 Link to comment
mevdinc Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 17 hours ago, EuroDriver said: Hi miguelito, I have e-mailed you regarding our revised DAC rankings. HQP 3.16 has changed the SQ competive landscape quite considerably Best Ed Would you be kind enough to share your revised DAC rankings for us other HQP users? Thanks! mevdinc.com (My autobiography) Recently sold my ATC EL 150 Actives! Link to comment
louisxiawei Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 8 hours ago, mevdinc said: Would you be kind enough to share your revised DAC rankings for us other HQP users? Thanks! +1 Thanks in advance, Edward. Software: Roon, Tidal, HQplayer HQplayer PC: i9 7980XE, Titan Xp, RTX 3090; i9 9900K, Titan V DAC: Holo Audio MAY L2, T+A DAC8 DSD, exasound e12, iFi micro iDSD BL USB tweaks: Intona, Uptone (ISO) regen, LPS-1, LPS-1.2, Sbooster Vbus2, Curious cables, SUPRA Certified HiSpeed USB cable NAA: Logic CL100 powered by Uptone JS-2 AMP: Spectral DMC 30SV, Spectral DMA 300RS Speaker: Magico S3 MKII Rack: HRS SXR signature Link to comment
simonklp Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hi Ed, count me in too. Thanks a lot! Link to comment
mevdinc Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hi @miguelito, It looks like Ed is unable to respond to our excitement, hope all is well with him! In his absence maybe you'd be kind enough to share the info, if it's not a secret of course. Thanks. Mev mevdinc.com (My autobiography) Recently sold my ATC EL 150 Actives! Link to comment
Popular Post EuroDriver Posted April 14, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted April 14, 2017 3 hours ago, mevdinc said: Hi @miguelito, It looks like Ed is unable to respond to our excitement, hope all is well with him! In his absence maybe you'd be kind enough to share the info, if it's not a secret of course. Thanks. Mev I have been on the road for 2 weeks, and just got back from visiting and DAC testing on some superb systems with Magico Q7 and Evolution Acoustics MM7. Here are my take aways. 1) HQ Player's new XTR filters deliver a major improvement in sound quality that can heard on mid fi systems and better 2) The XTR filters help both PCM DAC's and DSD DAC's. In ultra transparent systems where you can hear everything, the DSD DACS's are getting an even bigger uplift than the PCM DAC's 3) There are quite a few DAC's which have their format / sample rate sweet spot at a fairly low sample rates, and these DAC's do not benefit very much from HQ Player's digital filtering prowess. All of the DAC's below take good advantage of HQ Players out board filtering and will sound better with each significant HQ Player release 4) The best / optimal DAC for the listener depends very much on his system and how the listener enjoys his music The PCM DAC's which I highly recommend for an audition are Aqua Formula - Bass definition outstanding Metrum Adagio and Pavane Level 3 - very sweet highs Total DAC D1-6 and D1-12 - excellent tonal density but some may miss the additional detail that 352 / 384 KHz brings The DSD DAC's which I would recommend for auditioning Nagra HD - pricey, max DSD 128, and you need the optional output transformers, but oh what a sound, simply superb Lampi GG DSD 512 - the emotional heart string pulling diva. When fitted with the output tube and rectifier tube that matches the system and the listener's sonic taste, this will float the emotional listeners boat. T+A PDP-3000 HV - the XTR filters makes this DAC very sonically competitive once more. T+A DAC 8 DSD - the price performance champ. Some easy to fit upgrades will be offered by Taiko Audio soon On the interesting list, but I have not heard them Bryston BDP-3 Gryphon Calliope Solstice380, sb6, miguelito and 1 other 3 1 Sound Test, Monaco Consultant to Sound Galleries Monaco, and Taiko Audio Holland e-mail [email protected] Link to comment
miguelito Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 Firstly, if Ed or anyone else shares something privately with me, I will keep that to myself - please don't ask me to share information sent to me privately - I will not. Based on Ed's recommendation, I tried poly-sinc-xtr upsampling to DSD64 (highest DoP rate my EmmLabs XDS1v2 supports). Fantastic. I had not preferred DSD upsampling before this filter was available. Additionally, whereas power-of-2 upsampling is fairly cheap (processing-wise), xtr is fairly expensive. My mini (2012, i7 quad, 2.6GHz, 16GB ram, ssd) is running at about 25% load. NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
miguelito Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, miguelito said: Additionally, whereas power-of-2 upsampling is fairly cheap (processing-wise), xtr is fairly expensive. My mini (2012, i7 quad, 2.6GHz, 16GB ram, ssd) is running at about 25% load. This makes it pretty clear why computer-based filtering is likely to be better than inside a DAC: there is a lot of compute power required, and I would expect most DACs cannot handle this FPGA or otherwise. NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
Solstice380 Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Thank you Ed. Very generous to share your insights! https://audiophilestyle.com/profile/21384-solstice380/?tab=field_core_pfield_3 Link to comment
mevdinc Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 3 hours ago, Solstice380 said: Thank you Ed. Very generous to share your insights! +1 Indeed, much appreciated. mevdinc.com (My autobiography) Recently sold my ATC EL 150 Actives! Link to comment
simonklp Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 5 hours ago, mevdinc said: +1 Indeed, much appreciated. +2 Hi Ed, thank you so much for your kind sharing. Link to comment
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