I have a friend who owns a PsAudio Directstream DAC, but who was helping a friend shop for a new DAC. They auditioned the DCS Rossini and both decided it had a significantly lower noise level than Directstream. I acknowledge that the price difference is significant, but have learned along the way th…

Have you narrowed it down to one or two choices yet? TIA/have fun.

Was there a rationale that Ted provided for dropping the DAC volume (and compensating with the volume of the preamp)? Maybe has something to do with the noise floor of the DAC? Sorry, I couldn’t find his post on this topic. Seems like an easy experiment to do.

It’s been a while but I do think it had to do with the noise floor. Sometimes I find technical explanations the same as I found advanced algebra in the 12th grade. As long as the teacher is speaking I follow along but when asked later to reproduce what was said I get lost in the weeds.

there you are: [image] DS Dac and Lumin Leedh volume control DACs Hi @tedsmith , My Lumin U1 is connected to the DSD Sr via AES. I tried the Leedh volume, and it sounds slightly better than bit perfect. I asked Peter Lie, of Lumin why that might be. He was not sure, and …

IIRC, with volume at 100 the output devices could sometimes request higher voltage/power than the actual power supply could deliver. A side-effect of the decision to reuse the PerfectWave DAC’s PSU. Or maybe I got that all wrong. :man_shrugging:

Hi Al, The Mac Mini is indeed a marvelous device and very capable music server. My Intel Intel based (late 2014) iMac sounds better as music server than the dedicated BlueSound Vault2 music server from 2020. It consumes much lower energy when in stand by (wake on lan switched on) and even if it sha…

I am glad it works out to your satisfaction. My thought is far too many people grab a Mac Mini and stop there. It works, as do laptops and computers in general. It is not the tip top solution by a long shot though and too many people accept it as such. It causes me no harm so I am fine. You may be h…

I can’t comment on the new Mac Mini with the M1 but I had the Mini with the I7 and the Roon Nucleus blows it away on sound quality running through the Matrix Spdif.

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there you are:

Best Regards …

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