T+a dac8

I wonder why the update can't be done through the USB connection on a PC; maybe T+A fears some customers could brick the DAC while updating the firmware on their own and prefer to do it only at the factory or through authorized personnel.
 
bart said:
I saw these announced in Belgium also earlier this week.
Steep prices (24,900€ for the SDV 3100) but if the pre-amp module is good, you save a lot of money of course.
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Hello Bart,

Is that price quote correct? I hope not - that would make it more expensive than the PDP 3100 HV SACD player which includes a DAC.
 
Randy Myers said:
Holy Crap... does HQPlayer even go up to DSD1024 :)....
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Randy according to its designer, Jussi said " Yes, it's been supported for a while already, but only recently devices have appeared that also support it. This device is "a little bit outside of my budget", but I've been testing DSD1024 on Holo Spring 2 DAC.

It takes about twice as much power as DSD512. With -2s filters and/or with help of recent GPUs it is not too hard to reach though. I've done most of my testing and measurements with poly-sinc-ext2. "
 
Randy Myers said:
Holy Crap... does HQPlayer even go up to DSD1024 :)....
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I get the part about converting an analog master to the highest resolution possible, i.e. for example DSD 128 or 256 in this case, and get better sound. But I am just not convinced that converting DSD 128 to DSD 1024 will get you any meaningfull additional quality, never mind the fact that you have to play via a laptop. The commercially available files does not go higher than DSD 256 as far as I am aware.

So I wonder if this is simply a numbers game and an arms race. But yeah, based on the sound from the DAC 8 DSD and the PDP 3000 HV I bet it sounds great!
 
soastrup said:
I get the part about converting an analog master to the highest resolution possible, i.e. for example DSD 128 or 256 in this case, and get better sound. But I am just not convinced that converting DSD 128 to DSD 1024 will get you any meaningfull additional quality, never mind the fact that you have to play via a laptop. The commercially available files does not go higher than DSD 256 as far as I am aware.

So I wonder if this is simply a numbers game and an arms race. But yeah, based on the sound from the DAC 8 DSD and the PDP 3000 HV I bet it sounds great!
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That's my suspicion as well. Even if there are consumer-marketed files beyond DSD 256, how many are there and, more importantly (to me at least), how many are of music I want to listen to?
 
The EMM Labs DA2 internally upsamples to DSD1024 so there must be some merit to these high rates; heck the Chord Dave upsamples to 5bit 104MHz and the Mola-Mola Tambaqui to 1bit 100MHz (much higher than DSD1024 which is 1bit 44.8MHz).
 
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