@luca.pelliccioli, that’s what I got for Christmas too! Though in 24-192 digital! Two years ago, it was After The Goldrush for its 50th anniversary. Am looking forward to Zuma and Tonight’s The Night in 2025! Hopefully my boys will be able to budget two in one year by then!
@stevensegal, @jazznut, inside every FLAC is a WAV file compressed losslessly. In the old days, people were afraid of electrical noise from the computing power needed to decompress the FLAC to WAV. No worries today.
@vmax, reminds me of being in Texarkana once for Easter Sunday. Figured maybe we could get a beer at a big chain hotel like Sheraton or Hilton. Nope! The staff even brought us back into the kitchen to show us that the refrigerator was chained and padlocked closed!!! We won them over though and managed to get a couple beers from a lounge area.
I certainly didn’t try out every streamer, I just can say „good old days” in my case would mean the Bridge, ok, but also a friend’s Auralic G2.1.
No, I don’t really believe we’re done with the difference generally meanwhile, although there certainly can be setups and equipment where it doesn’t play a role. You just never know why in the respective case.
I spent the morning to adjust speaker angles. With DS MK2 mine sounds better with more open stands. I tilted each speaker straighter by 1 1/4 inch (they are still toe-in, but less), the high/mid sounded sweeter without losing any detail and density. The soundstage is as deep, and obviously it is a bit wider.
When I had the DS this speaker setup would sound too thin. Now it sounds just right. If you have the speakers toe-in, you may want to open them up a bit to see if you like the sound better.
My Mk II DAC will be arriving later today. Would someone be willing to forward me the 2.3.3 Firmware and 179 FPGA files so that I have them for future reference? You can PM me and I will give you my email address. Thanks.
What I am looking for is to be able to go back to these after new versions are released. PS Audio has not put these on the Downloads page. I like to keep a copy of every firmware release.
My unit shipped in December with 2.3.0. Let me know if you still need the updates… send email address via private message… and I will send you the email with both the 2.3.3 FW and F179 Antero.
At Experts: I assumed these needed to be loaded sequentially. I did FW first. Restarted. And then did F179. It worked. But interested to know if can be more efficient.
They can both be on the same USB stick at the same time. They will each take their own same amount of time to load no matter how you try to sequence them…
How exciting! Look forward to hearing your impressions once it’s all up and running. You might have one of the first post-beta DS2’s along with @Carousel ?
Resolution Test: I installed the new PS Audio USB driver on my laptop and was able to play music of all resolutions up to DSD256. Then I connected my Innuos Zenith Mk 3 direct to the USB input. Under audio settings on the Zenith it shows PS Audio PS Audio Extended Resolution US for the USB connection.
Under the DSD MODE setting, I had it set as Native DSD and got no sound. I changed it to DSD over PCM and got it to play up to DSD256 (4x).
I think that the lock in the pic is because I set it to Fixed volume, which disabled the volume control on the remote.
BTW: Mine came with firmware version 2.3.5 instead of 2.3.3. FPGA is 179-Antero.
I received my DirectStream DAC MK2 yesterday and so far I’ve been enjoying the new DSDAC MK2 every moment!
However, I am hearing a pop noise when using USB input and playing it with DSD files. I am using Roon and HQPlayer to upsample everything to DSD256 and streaming it through sonore ultralRendu. The pop noise occurs whenever the file sampling rate changes, for example from 48kHz to 96kHz or the music stops. The pop noise doesn’t occur while using I2S, or at least I don’t hear it from my speakers. Has anyone noticed the same issue?
I have been using both a Rendu Signature SE and opticalRendu with Roon listening through USB and I²S1 & I²S2 (using a DDC). I do not hear any pops from track to track no matter the format.
I don’t use HQPlayer. I tried it two or so years ago and couldn’t tell the difference with the MKI so I stopped using it. As a process of elimination, have you tried bypassing HQPlayer?
The popping issue had been mentioned in the now-closed beta thread.
Other open issues from that thread include a direct question to Aaron from a tester requesting what the issue was causing the muting, and clarification on production unit differences from beta units that did or did not include the rework.
Yes, using Foobar and USB, I have that slight popping like when the needle first touches vinyl, when switching DSD files. It can be between the same DSD levels too, not just between different DSD levels. It does not seem to be a problem with PCM to PCM, no matter if between different PCM bit rates. I am on 2.3.3 and F179. This is with both Native DSD and DoP.
From the beta thread, there seemed to be advice to turn off the audio input auto select. How do I do this? I’ve been wandering and getting stuck in the menu toggle screens… for some reason ground lift and input names seem to be a strange attractor pair for me… and the remote has not helped either.
Note: I did disconnect the other inputs (RCA and optical), with no difference, still a pop.
PS I do not have my HQ Player PC with me for Christmas, but I normally have it scale whatever input I have to DSD256. So the DAC would only be seeing DSD256 as input.
