Will the new models be at London CanJam in July? Raal is currently not in the list of exhibitors, although "more to follow".

Thank you for trying out all these options. I get easily confused when presented with too many variables, so, in my system, I struggled to hear the benefits of your best option - either by disabling wifi or by closing down Roon Remote. My best bet, based on SQ improvement vs speed of switching...

OK, I'll give that a go.

That's what I was hoping for, but the Zahl guy said no.

Having contacted the Zaal Sales person (in the UK), it looks like there will be no opportunity to demo the HM1 at any UK dealer or show this year. So, does anyone know of any upcoming meet or mini-meet in the UK that would enable me to try the HM1? Ideally within 100 miles of Worcestershire...

How does the Wandla spacial enhancement compare with Zaal HM1's "sound stage knob". The latter sounds very interesting, but I've not yet found anywhere in the UK where I can audition it. I recall you were very impressed with the HM1 in general.

How easy is it to attach the ZMF pads? Do they have the same plastic tabs as stock hifiman pads?

Thank you for that. I listened to some of the Vitruoso sample tracks, and they were very interesting - more towards the "expansive" style, where the overall width increases (compared to traditional CF decreasing the width). But depth-wise, the sound stayed within the line running between my...

Will either of these work with Roon? Which supports convolution filters, but not plug-in filters as far as I know. The app websites don't make this integration aspect very clear.

I don't know if Mojo's CF works with an external amp (my DAVE does, but only by design oversight), but Chord's CF implementations in general are good. Other DAC makers that include CF: Meier (who are CF champions), Weiss (also CF champions), and most interestingly the new Ferrum Wandla...

It's difficult to predict the impact on resale value. Although some potential buyers would be put off by any mod of any kind, the buyers that are interested in this caps mod would instantly jump at a Dave already modded in preference to a similarly aged un-modded Dave, probably prepared to pay a...

I found putting my iPad Air 5 into standby helps (by pressing its on/off button). Of course you lose the display and controls when in standby, but it's super quick to enable/disable by one press of the on/off button, much faster than toggling airplane mode. Not sure how the above damping...

Try this link below. There's no definitive answer to your question, but most people would say it's not about the bits themselves, but about the noise that surrounds the bits, which is hard to get rid of once it gets into your network and system. Not everyone hears these sometimes subtle...

I'm a dedicated user of cross-feed, and generally agree with the posts of @jamesjames. I posted my thoughts on DAVE DAC/amp's CF here. To my ears, a good CF provides benefits to almost all recordings, not just orchestral or early stereo recordings. Once I "got" the benefits of a good CF, it's...

It's HEK SE (which I upgraded to a while back from HEK V2). FWIW, I thought the SE was incrementally better than V2 across the board, but these two are much more alike than they are different. They both allowed me to immerse myself into the musical performance without fretting about...