06-Dec-2017, 21:47
@Confused Thank you for sharing. I also use poly-sinc-ext now but earlier I tried a few and sometimes I felt that poly-sinc-shrt-mp sounded better on certain recordings. As for dither, I'm not sure which one to use, now it is set to TPDF because that was the default. The problem is that I don't really understand what these settings really do (or what the acronyms even stand for) and how they are supposed to change the sound.
I upsample everything to 192kHz as the Devialet seem to sound best when it is fed at that frequency. DSD files are streamed as they are but the Mutec MC3+USB changes them to PCM 192kHz. With the recent addition of the Mutec Ref10 and changing the power supply of the MC3+USB to linear, I start to feel that I'm near the 'end of the road'. If you haven't had the Ref10 in your system yet, it's a must. It sounds sooooo much better with that in the chain.
I upsample everything to 192kHz as the Devialet seem to sound best when it is fed at that frequency. DSD files are streamed as they are but the Mutec MC3+USB changes them to PCM 192kHz. With the recent addition of the Mutec Ref10 and changing the power supply of the MC3+USB to linear, I start to feel that I'm near the 'end of the road'. If you haven't had the Ref10 in your system yet, it's a must. It sounds sooooo much better with that in the chain.
Win10/HQPlayer / Roon - Uptone Audio Etherregen switch / SOtM-SMS-200 ultra with clock input - Mutec REF 10 clock for the switch and the streamer - Denafrips GAIA DCC - Devialet D800 - YG Acoustics Carmel - Dual Elac SUB-2090
power supplies: Uptone JS-2, SOtM SPS-500