Should you go vinyl on a budget, you can do nicely with a Rega Planar 8, step up to a Planar 10. Vinyl has its benefits, and its inconveniences. I have not heard the new Rega Naia, but look forward to Dirk’s impressions.
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After I got rid of my analog setup and LP treasure, I realized I am happier now. Mainly because I can afford bigger fish in the digital pond. If I had kept both, I would still have a bunch of small fish swimming all over the place. Not to mention my wife likes the streaming idea much better (CDs are barely okay). instead of hundreds of LPs I have two Samsung portable SSDs. 
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I have Al’s Rega RP10 now. No complaints. I just have to funnel what funds I have in the right direction. Right now that direction is digital The Gryphon digital direction. Like most of us there’s lots of flavors I’d like to try but I have to try and stay focused.
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It’s nice to try free samples in a nice toy store😋
No worries, and with an RP10 you’re good to go. How do you manage with a loaner though? I’d think you’d be severely limited in your record acquisitions as IME amassing a record collection necessitates a long term commitment to the format.
I have found it helpful to literally have an upgrade or system improvement plan.
Not something irrationally inflexible, but a general guide for taking the next steps.
For example/FWIW, I am currently focused on reducing noise (in all of its forms) in and around the signal chain and improving room acoustics (“playing the room”, as Jim Smith would say.*
This loosely guides my expenditures and helps me focus when tempted by the siren song of some great new or used kit I come across here and there.
Cheers.
*RE: “Get Better Sound”, by Jim Smith.
Well, it turns out the volume has no effect on the hiss level but you are correct that volume level 0 cuts off the outputs. I also discovered that the pre-emphasis filter effectively mutes the audio with the exception of a slight bleed on the right channel. One heckuva heavy-handed filter, I’d say. My next attempt will be to re-load the firmware just in case there’s some data corruption at play. Thanks much for your advice!
Do you have the automatic input settings on? If so, give a try also to manual input selecting.
De emphasis is not working yet. It is tied up in the UI update that will someday make all the other features functional that the DAC is capable of having.
I’m wondering if anyone has encountered this on the MK2.
Playing Roon from a Nucleus+ to an opticalRendu, USB out to the MK2.
Sometimes, when switching tracks mid-stream, or sometimes when one track plays after another, there is a disturbing sound which – as best as I can describe it – is like someone bumping the tonearm across a record. A bassy ‘thump-te-de-domp’. It is temporary, and the next track plays, but it’s pretty loud and really worrisome.
That said, it seems to happen when using DSP upsampling in Roon, and seems not to happen with upsampling off, but I can’t guarantee that… not enough testing, yet.
I’ve never heard this with the MK1, upsampling or not.
Has anyone heard this sound before?
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Yea it has been reported. Ted is working on it I think. @vkennedy61 has also talked with Sonore. But he got no recent responses. I think they ghosted him. Both he and I have moved on from Sonore for different reasons. I did have a bit of regret but after some more listening I do not. I am also getting a Holo res in soon. And them maybe try Airlens.
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FWIW, I have not heard anything unusual at all. I have a signature rendu and mkii. Fiber from a server 75’ to the Rendu and usb from the Rendu to the mkii. I don’t upsample and haven’t played any DSF files yet. Roon/Qobuz and JRiver 70/30.
Ted is aware of these “pops”. I believe this will be fixed in the next firmware release.
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Thanks @brian.fitterman and @vkennedy61
It’s comforting to hear that this is a known issue, and there may be a fix coming up. For my system, which is usually fairly bulletproof, this is a disturbing sound. It always sets me on edge.
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I have been surprised as each day passes that FW and UI updates haven’t been released. Especially since the MK2 is in Production. In my opinion you are experiencing Beta issues that should have never been part of the Production sales.
Sad but true.
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I’d agree there. I had hoped that with the delay to get me one I paid for nearly two months ago I would get one with problems fixed.
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For reference, I just left a local dealer who had a used Bricasti M21 setup with a stack of Mc gear. Surprisingly no pops between any format.
self destructing?
Well, I can’t see how the MK2 in the current config can go to reviewers. Even a kind and gentle reviewer wouldn’t be able to see past the bugs and features missing. Perhaps all will be fixed by AXPONA. That’s still a month away, an awfully long time to have this number of issues for production buyers. This forum has many issues documented, that can’t be helping sales either.
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I feel the same. I would rather have them trickle in than this wait and get a bunch. I would have fixed the update via network, then let the rest trickle in so people can test/validate. And as a business you know what update broke something so you can check the code. No matter how much you test your code, there is bound to be something breaks something else. too many permeations out there to test 100%
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