It's at track changing times that I dislike those DC pops the most.
Good to hear the noise floor is low, something other no-dac DSD thing-a-me-bobs have been suffering from. I wonder if the S03 is making the magic here, cleaning up unwanted artifacts in the bitstream. Have you tried, Amanero straight into the Direct-drive dac, I wonder what the noise floor is like then?
btw, if just looking for a native client for realtime conversion on Windows and USB play out, Foobar2000 will do this too. Eventhough HQplayer has many more filter/conversion options, it interface still leaves a lot to be desired. I wish it could just act as a driver and not just only be a stand alone application.
It's at track changing times that I dislike those DC pops the most.
Good to hear the noise floor is low, something other no-dac DSD thing-a-me-bobs have been suffering from. I wonder if the S03 is making the magic here, cleaning up unwanted artifacts in the bitstream. Have you tried, Amanero straight into the Direct-drive dac, I wonder what the noise floor is like then?
btw, if just looking for a native client for realtime conversion on Windows and USB play out, Foobar2000 will do this too. Eventhough HQplayer has many more filter/conversion options, it interface still leaves a lot to be desired. I wish it could just act as a driver and not just only be a stand alone application.
No S03 yet, just straight from Amanero!
Tried Foobar initially but noise/clicks appearing even with native DSD
JRiver -fine but the transcoded DSD not up to quality
Best results coming from HQPlayer.
Fyi, this is my current setup for evaluation, using SE outputs:
Keeping it 'simple' initially. No isolators/reclockers.
Next plan is to introduce "Digital Vol Control" so that the pots can be removed.
Outputs can be cap or transformer coupled if needed but at this stage keeping it direct.
Experienced some stuttering during playback especially if PC is just booted but after a while everything steadies out - so some startup procedures coming in already
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
Keeping it 'simple' initially. No isolators/reclockers.
Next plan is to introduce "Digital Vol Control" so that the pots can be removed.
Outputs can be cap or transformer coupled if needed but at this stage keeping it direct.
Experienced some stuttering during playback especially if PC is just booted but after a while everything steadies out - so some startup procedures coming in already
Roon looks very promising, if a bit pricey. I'll probably go for Roon if/when it has the integration.
https://roonlabs.com/
Computer Audiophile - Roon From Roon Labs - A Video Run-through
https://community.roonlabs.com/t/hq-player-integration/1656
Ray
Thanks Ray, very interesting but cannot see any transcoding capabilities from PCM to DSD before streaming and what Fs max of DSD
You do transcoding/playback with HQ Player; work is ongoing to develop Roon so that it can act as the front-end interface to HQ Player.
Ray
If you're going the HQ Player route you'll have to use the Signalyst NAA package for remote playback (or a commercial device that incorporates it). I've not read into other multi-room playback with Roon so maybe I need to pay more attention to it.
Ray
From the Roon home page;
"...listen in one room or around the house with AirPlay, with more streaming formats to come."
and from their forum;
"UPnP/DLNA devices are some of the most difficult to support, but there are millions of them out there so we'd like to support as many as possible. We won't have any form of UPnP support done for next month's launch, but we will be working on it soon after."
Ray
"...listen in one room or around the house with AirPlay, with more streaming formats to come."
and from their forum;
"UPnP/DLNA devices are some of the most difficult to support, but there are millions of them out there so we'd like to support as many as possible. We won't have any form of UPnP support done for next month's launch, but we will be working on it soon after."
Ray
Hello Jean-Paul,
Please wait for a while as dimensions may change when Volume Control functions are added. Most likely I will also roll out motherboard with Amanero and these DSD modules mounted to make it easy for those who want to use it this way.
Power supply requirements as indicated here:
Current consumption is about 40mA each module.
Thanks Ray, getting a clearer picture now. The ability to stream DSD native up to DSD256 is a big plus!
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