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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

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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

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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

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Could you share these revised dac ranking? Thanks in advance!

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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! :)

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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. :)

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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

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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

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