Really outstanding value here. My long form review of this combo is here https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/reviews/reality-quest-power-and-digital-audio-with-the-sean-jacobs-dc4-and-sound-application-pgi-tt-7-part-1-of-2-r973/ Review is pre Arc6, which just takes it WAY better

I very much respect that (and used to very much feel the same...my server journey started with a Raspberry Pi). The closest I've come to a hypothesis for what is going in I tried to capture in part 1 of the review in the "Digital Audio Optimization Foundations" section. This is all hypothesis...

In case folks have an interest in this, I have about 30k words to say about it a couple years ago (I had the same question going in) (and to stay on topic, this was paired with a DAVE for the listening tests)...

Sold!

https://abyss-headphones.com/pages/abyss-ab-1266-phi-reference-headphone Basically almost new Abyss AB-1266 Phi TC headphones (lite package) Includes everything pictured: Headphones 8' 4 pin XLR cables 4pin to 1/4" adapter 4pin to speaker amp terminal adapter velvet bag card + box After...

Honestly, it is hard to imagine any results more tangible in this hobby that perceived improvements in sound quality. If you would like to explore possible reasons why fuses would make an impact, I believe much of the benefit is around filtering/power factor/ability to respond to dynamic loads...

Hard to make a direct mapping to "accuracy" but each doubling of taps gives an additional bit of ideality of the filter. IIRC, the ideality of the filter (where sinc function is the ideal) is 12.2 bits Hugo 2, 13.9 bits Dave, and 16.6 bits M scaler. That is, DAVE's filter is identical to an...

Ha! Missing these discussions my friend. Hope all is well on your side of the pond, and that you and yours and healthy are happy (you guys get to drink beer and whiskey to manage the virus, we alas have to drink bleach)

If you can get a natural cross over to work (ie, no cross over at all) then the transparency question comes down to how well matched the drivers are to each other. You will also be splitting the limited H2 power between the two (TT2 obviously would have no problem). The natural cross over...

T These days I have Abyss AB-1266 Phi TC's and Sennheiser HD800 (with SR mod) Both are pretty expansive and "speaker like", so dialing in crossfeed is pretty satisfying (I'm primarily a two channel speaker listener still, but having everyone stuck in the house together is "encouraging" more...

i do. I’ve found that without headphones (using speakers) there is a natural crossfeed between the left and right channels (each ear can hear both speakers). When listening to headphones, with CF0 it feels a bit unnatural to me. Ideal CF seems to vary from recording to recording, so I fiddle...

Great write up! If I may, you may want to reach out to Mark at Sablon Audio. His new 2020 USB cable basically ended all my USB experimentation (including a bunch of DIY stuff) within the first minute of listening. I suspect there are a demo cable or two circulating around your side of the...

A quick update to answer my own question for posterity. I sourced some DSD512 files, and I had the same issue playing them direct to DAVE (DAVE shows DSD512, but no audio comes out). When I switched the mode from PCM+ to DSD+, everything works as expected. My take away is that to play DSD512...

Yes that works. Note that the outputs of DAVE are not galvanically isolated, but I believe the inputs to TT2 are, so you should be fine. When I was playing with this config WAY back in Blu2 days, there was a step down feeding the second DAVE from an mScaled DAVE vs direct. TT2 will be much...

Thank you for the note. I have not yet tried it with my Chord TT2, but that is a good suggestion (thank you) When going to DSD512, my CPU is below 10% (Xeon processors). Stepping down the filters to less CPU intensive ones doesn't change things (HQP says DSD512, DAVE says DSD512, but no...

Folks, I did a quick search but didn't see anything. I'm experimenting with HQPlayer on Windows to upsample DSD64 content to DSD512 to DAVE (via the Chord ASIO driver). When I do so, I'm seeing DAVE register the signal as DSD512, but I'm not hearing anything. When I set the upsampling limit...

Sorry, just seeing this (alas, pandemic-induced-tardiness...believe it or not, this past weekend was the first time I've been able to listen to music in 3-4 weeks). I've only had Omega (Super/Compact) Alnico Monitors and Voxativ speakers (1.6 drivers and 4D drivers) connected to my DAVE, so I...

2Yu is a digital to digital converter (DDC), presumably with some internal isolation and reclocking. I don't know how it compares to USB regenerators like the Uptone Audio ISORegen or the SOtM tx-ultra (USB to USB), or how it compares to the Matrix Audio XSPDIF2 (USB to SPDIF), or the AudioWise...

I jumped (unheard) from a Chord Mojo to the DAVE. What I heard in the Mojo I wanted as much as I could possibly get. That was a really big check to write (20x). I was confident but nervous. It exceeded my way high expectations by a country mile. With Blu2 (mScaler) I had zero hesitation and...

I had a chance to hear the Phoenix last fall at RMAF and it took maybe 5 seconds to clearly hear the impact it was having. I’ve heard similar with ISO Regen, and a huge lift from SOtM tX-ultra (even more with the special edition and better power). What the heck can be going on with USB signal...

Agreed. The overhead of having to click into the site for every message is untenable. I need to radically reduce what I track, or find a community that doesn't have such a heavy tax for participation

Please please please update the notification emails to have the full post. This is untenable

Geoff, I stream from TIDAL and I have a MacMini fileserver woth all my music files, so both go through the EtherRegen to my NUC.

The EtherRegen has a shockingly impactful SQ on bass resolution and speed, even through an optimized NUC and SoTM TX-Ultra with optical isolation. I'm running Voxativ 9.87's with the ultra fast and resolving Pi bass units, but with EtherRegen in the chain, I'm hearing bass detail (and...

When I got my Blu2 to go with my DAVE, I got these to stack them on top of each other: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B019O5A2EA worked like a charm Knowing what I know now, there are different versions of these sorbothane pads that are spec'ed for different amounts of weight (they tune...