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Great information.  Thank you Confused!

Any chance you've compared using the microRendu/LPS-1 combo against the latest AIR 3.0.1 beta?   I currently have the uRendu (with iFi PS) and find that AIR 3.0.1 beta (the only one that has worked well for me) is just as good.   What I'd love to know is if the uRendu/LPS-1 combo is then even better than than AIR.

I m very interesred as well to know that!
Thks


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OK, it's Friday and I have some spare time at home as I am busily using up what's left of my 2016 annual vacation.  So, some time to try AIR versus microRemdu/LPS-1.  I'm not sure if it makes any difference to sound quality, but AIR 3.0.2 RC is available now, so I loaded this up for the test.  I must admit, this was a bit of a tough test!  I did end up doing quite a bit of switching backwards and forwards between AIR and the mR, so it is safe to say that any differences are quite small.  Although I have reached what I think are some very interesting conclusions.  First to say that after much listening, it is a victory for the mR/LPS-1 combination, and a total victory, that is I found it preferable in all areas.  That said, the differences are very small, I think if I had to blind test now and announce which was AIR and which was the mR/LPS-1 I would struggle.  Having said that, the reason I find this particularly interesting is that this is not the conclusion I reached last time I tried an AIR vs mR test, that time with the ifi and the D800.  That time the final conclusion was that the mR was best at abouve about 200Hz, but AIR had slightly better and more accurate bass.  This time I found the bass to be better with the mR also.  So is this LPS-1 at work?  Well it helps, but the bass via the mR direct to USB is still pretty good trying the ifi back providing the power.  Now I think this is quite a claim, but from what I am hearing I can only conclude that the USB implementation in the Pro is better, quite a bit better!  So now I am thinking back over the year, trying the Melco N1Z, CAD CAT and others via USB, and although these were mighty in same areas, the slight loss of bass accuracy had me gaining a definite preference to things like the Aurender N10/W20 that could feed the Devialet via AES/EBU.  Would the hierarchy of these machines be the same tried with the Pro?  I am thinking maybe not.  Having completed the AIR versus mR/LPS-1 trial, I then reinstated the Mutec and ran through some of the tracks again.  This was bliss!  The m/R Mutec combination still does it for me.  Again this was interesting, previously I found that versus USB the AES/EBU input with the Mutec provided better bass, but there did seam to be a bit more bass via USB, now the Mutec still triumphs with bass performance, but the previous difference of more bass via USB appears to have gone, now they appear to be roughly the same.  Everything seams a little different in the Pro era.  One comment on the 1000 Pro itself, one think I had not picked up during my back to back audition of the 1000 Pro versus the D800 was any significant difference in bass performance.  Having lived with the Pro for a while I am now discovering that the bass slam and power with some music is utterly staggering, the more time I spend with the Pro the more I realise that it is a genuine class up from the old expert.