Hey all … I know some of you have this unit… and I have yet to see any negative review on it… For those unaware - this is essentially a USB to I2S converter that seems to mate well with the DS. All reports give it a thumbs up… These reports have been in multiple threads - and I was hoping all cou…

Just to confirm matrix have confirmed external 5v psu is outside of spec and may not work. 7-9v is the spec.

Meanwhile, now that we’ve recovered from being Star Struck, what’s the low down on a Matrix setup vs the EtherRegen? And can HQPlayer work with the ER somehow?

In my system the Matrix and ER are additive and compliment each other - they work wonderfully together. HQPlayer doesn’t work with the ER?

I made a few changes today, the first change was to pull the Bridge 2 out. If it made a difference I cannot hear it. No change. No difference. Nada. The manufacturer of my Preamps main business is extremely expensive audio and power cables. They make a particular 20 amp cable for my preamp and they…

Hi Al, Thank you for your report. What media were you listening to, CD, Vinyl or streaming (flac, hi res)? Did you get an impression your changes favored one media over the other? Chas

I have Samsung SSD inside my Euphony server and I am listening to Flac rips from my CDs. I listened to a couple of songs from Robyn Hitchcock from his album “Good Night Oslo”. The tracks were “I’m Falling” and “Good Night Oslo”. The top end seemed a tad over-cooked and overall the sound was a tad…

Question al. I look at the specs for sbooster and I see 5-6v and 9-10v among others. How do you get to 7.5?

[image] nycenglish: HQPlayer doesn’t work with the ER? If the ER is the last stop before the DS(J), connecting to the Bridge II, then the answer appears to be no because the Bridge II is not a NAA, which is required by HQPlayer when connecting over a network. There may be some other way to …

ER is a ethernet pass through device. Nothing in your system can or will detect it,except your ears. 100% function in every setup ,the only limitation is it’s 100MB output from b port,not gigabit speeds there. It does not show up like Matrix as one of your output devices.

Is there a way to get rid of your Cisco switch in the ethernet path? So that you have only ER. If that is possible you might be in a nice upgrade in SQ. When I played with Aqvox switch and ER it was very obvious that ER works best solo. And nowadays Inakustik Exzellenz cat6 cables throughout it.

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zheng4 June 10, 2020, 2:03am 3220

I posted my impression of a little gadget, USBe Perfect, from UnderwoodHiFi/Wally, compared it to Matrix X-SPDIF2, in a separate topic, thought people without the Matrix may also find it interesting.

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