This is not a new topic, but some rather interesting new products have come to the market. For a while a number of people have tried various "digital to digital" converter type products with the Devialet, and often reported good results. A link below to the Mutec MC3+USB thread. I think the Mutec has been one of the more popular choices in this area.
https://devialetchat.com/Thread-Mutec-MC-3-USB
There are actually a whole range of products in this category, but I have only seen posts about a few similar items actually tried with a Devialet, notably the Singxr SU1, but there might be others. Then we have the "king of the price list" dSC Upsampler, which has been discussed recently in other threads.
From a technical perspective, these products do make sense, as they allow the use of the Devialet'e seemingly better measuring AES/EBU input. Certainly for my ears, subjectively, I preferer to use the AES/EBU input.
Some interesting new products have come to the market:
https://www.denafrips.com/iris
https://www.denafrips.com/gaia
https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/denafrips5/
http://www.audio-gd.com/R2R/DI20/DI20EN.htm
http://www.audio-gd.com/R2R/DI20HE/DI20HEEN.htm
Personally, I am keeping an eye out now for reports on the Audio GD DI-20. In many respects it has similar functionality to my current Mutec MC3+USB, and has a 10MHz input that I could use with the REF10.
In fact, with the Audio GD DI-20 I could use my REF10 to clock, and HQPlayer to provide DSD64, and perhaps mimic some of the goodness that I observed listening to a dCS Vivaldi Upsampler running DSD64 to a Devialet. OK- maybe it would sound as good, which would be remarkable, or maybe not, who knows, but it is an interesting thought. One thing is clear, it is a lot cheaper! Plus, it does have a LPSU, rather than the Mutec's SMPS.
The Audio GD DI-20 is Chinese, so perhaps the does not give the confidence that one might grt from the very Germanic Mutec or the UK Cambridge built and machine finished dCS. But there are some very smart people in China, and who wants to pay 1000's for a fancy case, it might just be a killer product?
Something to watch out for?
https://devialetchat.com/Thread-Mutec-MC-3-USB
There are actually a whole range of products in this category, but I have only seen posts about a few similar items actually tried with a Devialet, notably the Singxr SU1, but there might be others. Then we have the "king of the price list" dSC Upsampler, which has been discussed recently in other threads.
From a technical perspective, these products do make sense, as they allow the use of the Devialet'e seemingly better measuring AES/EBU input. Certainly for my ears, subjectively, I preferer to use the AES/EBU input.
Some interesting new products have come to the market:
https://www.denafrips.com/iris
https://www.denafrips.com/gaia
https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/denafrips5/
http://www.audio-gd.com/R2R/DI20/DI20EN.htm
http://www.audio-gd.com/R2R/DI20HE/DI20HEEN.htm
Personally, I am keeping an eye out now for reports on the Audio GD DI-20. In many respects it has similar functionality to my current Mutec MC3+USB, and has a 10MHz input that I could use with the REF10.
In fact, with the Audio GD DI-20 I could use my REF10 to clock, and HQPlayer to provide DSD64, and perhaps mimic some of the goodness that I observed listening to a dCS Vivaldi Upsampler running DSD64 to a Devialet. OK- maybe it would sound as good, which would be remarkable, or maybe not, who knows, but it is an interesting thought. One thing is clear, it is a lot cheaper! Plus, it does have a LPSU, rather than the Mutec's SMPS.
The Audio GD DI-20 is Chinese, so perhaps the does not give the confidence that one might grt from the very Germanic Mutec or the UK Cambridge built and machine finished dCS. But there are some very smart people in China, and who wants to pay 1000's for a fancy case, it might just be a killer product?
Something to watch out for?
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