Do you use SAM?

[yabaVR]

In fairness to Pim here, he is running an O'dA, which should provide an excellent level of transparency without too much tweaking.  Also, I believe Pim is using Roon AIR (I may have got this wrong).  In my experience with the 1000 Pro, Roon AIR is far more transparent than the USB input.  

So I think there is another way of looking at this, when I did the 'Gui test' I could discern a benefit to micro details with SAM off, but this difference was tiny, vastly smaller than the positive benefits I get from SAM on.  So taking two data points (not statistically significant I would agree) , we get one claim of a tiny difference, and one claim and one claim of no difference.  This makes the micro detail influence of SAM on / off somewhere between tiny but discernible and nothing.  More data needed I think!

Ok. As he has a D200 also in his signature I thought that it's a D200 in the picture not half of an O'dA. Where is the other half of the O'dA?

Pim, if I may suggest an improvement to placing of your Dxxx (D200 or half O'dA)? You placed it on wood what really is adding a good sound signature to the music but try to place it as openly as you can with no (wooden) box around it building an enclosure as shown in the picture. All the sound is accumulating/reflecting in that box giving your Dxxx a hard time handling all this extra vibrations like in a drum enclosure. For double mono (O'dA) treat each channel equal if possible in your environment because if you place a right channel completely different a left channel it would most likely sound odd...but you may not know until you change the situation

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You're right with the O'dAs transparency but you can prevent even an O'dA from blossoming if you place it the wrong way (and/or different for each case of right/left channel) or feed it not the best.

I've a contradict experience associated with USB signal transmission. In my system USB is clearly the better with more precision, dynamic, emotions to the music. But as always this depends on the source you are running the signal from (and USB cable). I've to admit that USB is much more dependent on the quality of the digital signal than ethernet/wiFi is. On many attempts it first sounded more digital/technical/less fluent/harsh and all the rest (you know it). But if everything is done the right way it delivers this extra of everything you love in your music. The last thing I came across was to close down every port on your PC (laptop in my case). With every port I mean that literally. That takes into account even something like a SD card reader in a laptop (and of course hdmi, usb, dvi, serial, power (if running on accu) )

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