gotcha. I’ve tried to watch Hans a few times and I can never make it 18 minutes. 
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I sometimes have to repeat play just to understand him. He talks kind of fast too. Accent doesn’t help.
Your assessment is correct; but his reviews, especially after expanding to his 5 testing systems (counting the a and b’s) are always worth the watch. I appreciate his thoroughness (I watch with subtitles but have become use to his accent and style). I have made 2 purchases after considering his reviews.
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Yeah I like Hans too. One of the better YouTube reviewers IMO.
I especially like the amount of time he spends explaining his digital chain (ethernet cables, routers, switches, and devices for cleaning up Ethernet-based noise etc.) as well as the number of reviews he’s done in this domain. That’s probably the hardest-to-understand part of audio for me, so I appreciate the detail.
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I’d like to hear other reviewers opinions of this. I’d say he is the first to say this?? Right now listening to hard disk off the usb drive. Sounds marvelous.
The $400 increase for the ME over standard is pretty minimal, so in the grand scheme, I probably should have sprung for the ME. But I didn’t.
I think any difference in sound (going to an external DAC) is also going to be pretty minimal, and it’s gonna depend on the other links in the chain.
Nearly every other review has said the difference is only relevant when using the internal DAC, but if Hans can honestly discern a difference in the unit as a transport, then he’s probably got better ears/gear/room than a lot of us here.
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If true maybe it would lead one to conclude it must be due to the better clock. Some say a more precise clock is a bunch of hogwash. It’s always made sense to me that it should have sonic benefits though.
Hifinews magazine in their latest issue have a review of the new HifiRose 130 which does not come with a DAC. They gave it a glowing review even using it with entry level DACs. I bet they must believe that improving parts like clocks result in better sound.
From day one with my Master Edition I’ve been talking about loose and warm bass when using the internal DAC. I’ve been experimenting with cabling today. Substituted another cable feeding my power amp. Lo and behold the bass coming out of the A6 analog outs improved noticeably. Must of been some kind of negative synergy going on all along. It was probably affecting all sources equally but was most audible with the A6.
just for curiosity’s sake, what are the before/after cables?
Was using Benchmark Studio&Stage XLR to RCA cables. Switched the AudioQuest Ruby RCAs.
ah gotcha… thought for some reason you meant power cables!
Still, good to know 
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Maybe I should have used the term interconnect.
Has anyone tried swapping the fuse in this thing?
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Came across this explanation on ME vs Standard on the Vidoo forum by one of the main contributors. I learned the ME is a modification by an outside company (Accusilicon), which adds the upgraded clock components.
You need to look at how players and DAC’s are build in a bit more detail.
When using DMP-A6 Gold Edition:
- For processing data the mainboard crystal will clock the CPU/GPU
- For HDMI out the DOH chip with be used
- For Internal DAC output the femto Accusillicon clocks will be used
- For USB output the mainboard clock will be used. The External DAC will use its own internal clock(s) for DAC decoding.No there will be no difference between the standard and gold units for the external DAC sound. Just for Internal DAC output.
The Gold edition only modifies the Internal DAC nothing else.
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IOW, a nice example of “hearing what you want to believe you want to hear” for those who’ve observed otherwise. 
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Gold Edition?
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yeah, i think he means Master
it’s got the gold bits on it
did you get yours, Al?
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Black with gold accents
I have just never heard of anyone referring to it as “Gold Edition”. It puzzles me that someone on the Zidoo forum wouldn’t use the name I recognize, “Master Edition”. I know what it looks like and all that. And no sir, not yet.
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I never saw anyone refute this on that forum