Alright. Long awaited. Ted has been slaving away at perfecting the beta release of Massive for the MK2 DAC, and finally, after tons of testing and lots of listening, here it is. The final release of Massive. I find it nothing short of stunning. The sound quality is off the fricking charts. Noise i…

[image] jtsnead: You don’t get the ticking sound I get on SACD,s? No, I hear no noise or ticking sound playing SACD’s or anything else before or after installing Massive.

Here’s a YouTube on how to rip a SACD. https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=ymyy-t-999&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-att_001&hspart=att&p=how+to+copy+sacd+file&type=sb

I used an old Sony Blu-ray player that was compatible, but have got rid of it now I’ve transferred the files to hard drives.

I use an old Sony Blu-ray also, a model # BDP S-7200. Works really well.

This may be the same video without Yahoo. Or maybe it is another one. Is certainly easier to understand than others. But does not have direct links to related Java software. Ripping SACDs With A Sony BDP-S6200 Blu-ray Player - YouTube This is a helpful forum link with links to software inside: Rip …

See also: [image] Ripping SACDs: Means and Methods How To Hello all. I am starting to plan for getting SACD layers from my collection archived and available for streaming. I know that the topic has been touched upon here and there in the forum, but I thought it might be…

When someone compares DACS like the mk 2 to the Esoteric, everything else in the chain should be identical or else the comparison is invalid.

After being a long time Antero fw user ( due to noise in the massive beta when going directly to bkh300) o just upgraded to massive latest release and while there are certain improvements I’m not sure but I may go back to Antero. Do I really need to let massive burn in for a few days before decidi…

A few days at least, 100 hours minimum. I experienced odd anomalies in tonal balance and soundstage proportion/placement several times up to about 100hrs. Then things settled down and were largely stable after that.

Maybe run Massive for the weekend. There are chunks of the FPGA that have not been used before. Then do some comparison listening on Sunday.

The final release of Massive for MK2 DAC

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The final release of Massive for MK2 DAC

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