Digital issue dropped last night.
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My local library offers a free download for an app called Libby. With it I can download, among other things, thousands of magazines. I follow audio magazines from all over the world. They can notify you as soon as a magazine you follow is published.
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I completely forgot I also have the digital subscription to TAS. 
Read the review. Typical AHC reliable review. One of the very few reviewers I trust. Met him in person at a CAF once. Itās easy to see in person how he can be respected.
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No problem accessing the link - nothing āmassiveā from what I can seeš
Well a dashed hope.
I didnāt see any mention of the version of software his review sample had. Thatās kind of a big factor to leave out of a review if you ask me.
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Maybe someone should send a letter to the editor asking the reviewer to clarify this point. I get the print version and havenāt gotten around to getting Libby, so I havenāt read the whole review yet.
I was also thinking which software version the review unit had loaded on it.
If the forthcoming āfinalā Massive version, then that makes me realise why that version has not been formally released yet.
Get the āfinalā release out to reviewers first to gauge their views/responses before public release.
Hmm, I wonder would a company be so cynical?
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I donāt feel thereās anything to be gained if this were true. What possibly could the reviewer reveal that a well equipped and respected professional doesnāt already know himself?
Even if so, by ways of the fpga, things can be remedied next upgrade.
The link is working https://www.psaudio.com/pages/downloads not sure what youāre seeing.
Massive for sure ships this month. Canāt wait!
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Iām a bit perplexed with these theories that tend to surface in the audio world. I donāt know if some people donāt know what itās like at a business, but for most of the people there, itās just a job. That sounds cynical, but itās also true that the vast majority of people want to find pride in their jobs.
Sometimes you hit unforeseen problems or delays that costs you customers. The solution to that is not some hollow scheme to save every last bit of your reputation. You accept the cost of the setback, do the best to rectify the problem without trashing your integrity, and take some lessons for the future. If all these audio companies could come up with such clever schemes all day, boy, theyāre in the wrong business.
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My digital source for DS mk2 is aurender n200. It has usb and coax. USB sounds better in any aspect. Should I try put DDC between source and Dac for i2s output? Do you guys have some experience ?
Iām not having this experience, but based on many posts on this forum and the quality of the usb input of the MK2, you better invest in the best usb cable you can lay your hands on. Instead of needing to invest a lot more in equally good PC, DDC and I2S, to end up having the same SQ.
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@hotsauce Concur save money not spending on DDC, high dollar HDMI cable, LPS and Air Lens. Buy a great USB cable instead equal to or exceeding what you planned to spend for the other boxes and cables and just turn on the galvanic isolation on mk2. DS MK1 is a different story.
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My usb is stealth t select cable and itās quite good so i was thinking about hdmi inputā¦ sometimes itās best input of the dac but looks like DS mk2 is different 
It sure is!
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Stealth T Select USB is great for MK2! My old streamer had both USB and HDMI outputs, and I preferred the sound from Stealth over AQ Dragon48 in a side-by-side comparison.
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What I am about to post here is not intended to say that anything that several you have posted in the last 5 or 6 post is wrong.
About a year ago I got a fidata NAS that has only two outputs. One is a dedicated and pretty well isolated Ethernet output that is meant to carry the selected stored audio file to a network Player ( a DAC with and Ethernet input ). The other output is a two way USB port that is meant to connect to DACs that do not have an Ethernet output. Care was taken to make the USB port capable of high SQ. ( All of the cables that I mention here are 0.5 m TOTL WireWorld digital cables. ) Since the Mk2 does not have an Ethernet port, I used the USB port to listen to music from the NAS. It sounded very good.
When the AirLens became available I got it and have used sijmply as a DDC and an isolation device. I connected the fidata NAS to the AL via a Ethernet cable and then connected the AL to the Mk2 via an HDMI I2S cable. The music sounds slightly better this way than through the USB connection. This tells me that the USB connection to the Mk2 is really good.
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When I first got the MK2, I was using a NAS to streamer to Matrix 2 and Dragon HDMI cable into itās I2S input, and when I compared it to NAS to streamer to a Vahalla2 USB cable to MK2, I didnāt hear much of a difference, which means the 2 inputs are pretty much an equal. But when I connected a better ChordMusic USB cable to the USB input, the sound was noticably better than the I2S input, so it really is up the quality of the cable you use for connection that determines which input is better.
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