M2 is a marvelous little piece. Using it battery operated with headphones and toslink input its floating isolated and gives organicly smooth HF noise free sound. Make it Mscaled and imo you get real close to TT2 and near stock Dave performance. Imo TT2 wins out in headphone drive power, Dave...

Thankyou Rob for this. Can you tell what that system was made of? Was it a direct out of Dave to crossoverless single driver speakers? I understood from reading alot (and my own experience) that that is the most transparent setup

Yeap i find mostly original 44.1 redbook to sound better than high res. versions. I have quite some double albums.. one from HDtracks Qbuzz etc. and an old CD rip of the same where the latter Mscaled sounds easily hearable clearer with better depth. Rob's WTA algorytm does a much better job...

Another marvelous album for HMS. If one cant hear its depth and transient effect with these drums.. nothing will.

You can also get Hugo2 and Mscaler first. It outperforms TT2 on its own in terms of transient timing. You also have the benefit of H2 being off grid so it wont have a groundloop and fill in its purpose of mobillity. You need a 3.5mm stereo to dual BNC cable to get 1M taps.

I noticed netflix streams all its movies at 44.1k on my TV android phone and ipad.. which sounds nowhere near as good as the same movies downloaded from other sources at (their native demultiplied) 48k. It seems they downsample for the sake of winning 5% network bandwidth. I hope im wrong and...

Yeap i watch my movies using free VLC player on my TV and Ipad with video delay at 640ms and 1M scaling. Works perfectly

For the ones that havent seen.. someone created his own dual optic link running on battery using my PCB file and schematics 😃 See here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/my-choral-housed-chord-mscaler.964931/post-18025161

Thanks for posting the pics! Its proof others can create this optic link too! Still sounding as good?

Its actually closer to real life sound. Smoother with less brightness. Many ones brains are trained to hear the edged up digital sound it gets presented everywhere.. its grew up with it. I had the same when i improved my set on HF noise isolation.. i had to get used to what initially felt less...

Try some of the ones i posted on Mscaler thread.. or just check up songs when the play is recorded before '68 and find an old early 80's 44.1 redbook rip of it.

To my ears, Mscaler, and with Chord DAC's in general they really depend on the source being bitperfect and not overly DSP'ed in a studio. One DSP setting activated on your player can take 80% away of Mscaler's effect. A few settings to check on you player: Output samplerate is the same as the...

Would you describe the perceived sonic differences a bit ..Did you hear new aspects in the sound? I assume older pre Dolby 1968 records and non digital mixed like direct from mike to ADC benefit the most as with current Mscaler?

If they can play loud enough for you, stay on front SE out. As it uses a shorter signal path with less components and thus giving better SQ.

Boy i wish you could hear capmodded Dave's meaty muscled sound.. i cant be happier too. ..ohwell

I heard the Lina with clock too using my own senns, a Sus and others.. it didnt move me. I cant understand what people find so good about it. My modded MDave is miles ahead

Some use special made RCA to speaker cables or adapters (9watt @8ohm per ch) Or for double power XLR (18watt@8ohm per ch) Search the TT2 thread about it. If you dont need cinema soundlevels ..not using an external amp and driving direct from TT2 is stunningly good. Rob uses a TT2 this way too.

If youre a headphone listener.. the TT2 is the best way as you could trade in Qutest and maybe also a headphone amp and cables. TT2's amp is amazing and simplifies your chain which gives best SQ. TT2 can even drive 8ohm or higher speakers direct. Mscaler can still be added after

If theyre not having less than 8ohm impedance its no problem.

Updated schematic, i will take the other away. I tried 68ohm resistors at the PSU mains side and it made the sound yet warmer with the same speed and clearness ..but i found the ultra sub bass being less deep reaching, So i went a step back with 47ohm ones with then 4x 100pF in parallel to...

Ohmy, youre right. Pot should be in the -15 indeed. Never in ground lead as that would lower the 5v badly. I will update the drawing. putting extra ground wires in would create groundloops.. not a good idea

You are using Opto DX or toslink from Scaler to Dave? To fully isolate

I should explore getting/creating a dedicated music player with local stored music.. original 44.1 early 80's RBCD rips in particular (if you like older recorded music ofc). I use one of these thinclients (can be bought for £50) running stripped Win7 embedded and foobar2k (free) Foobar can play...

Still love mine.. and going strong after 10 years with original battery even. ..still playing 8+ hours as i just tested They did it right in 2013 aesthetically and i dont need a change. But as new it did 12+ so maybe time for a new battery

I leave the juicy details to Stemki.. as he went forward to create one. Myself i hesitate to make one since my filter and mods sound soo good already.. but perhaps one day if i have spare time