RE: Native DSD playback and Memory

Posted by Kenny B (A) on August 8, 2012 at 14:13:57

In Reply to: RE: Native DSD playback and Memory posted by ted_b on August 8, 2012 at 10:43:02:

I purchased the Mytek DAC a few months ago after reading the good things many had written about it - including Ted who had referred to my former DAC (Weiss Minerva/DAC2) in one of his posts. The Mytek was a big step up from the Minerva with PCM. But, DSD playback takes it to an even higher level.

I use Audirvana Plus running on a Mac mini equipped with 8 GB of RAM, which has seemed sufficient. The DAC is connected via Firewire.

I'm curious about Tony's mention of using HQPlayer to upsample PCM to DSD128. I will have to try this.

I recently attempted to play some DSD128 recordings I made of vinyl using a Korg MR2000s recorder, but didn't have much luck. I'm guessing DSD128 may not be supported via Firewire. I switched to recording in DSD64. These recordings sound fantastic. It's amazing how much of the natural timbre is retained - a credit to both the Korg and the Mytek. I think it's the Mytek's reproduction of timbre that has me the most impressed.

I'm crazy to enough to have recently paired the Mytek with an interconnect retailing for almost twice as much (MIT Oracle V3.2). The reproduction of timbre became even more impressive - jaw-droppingly-so on better recordings like the Esoteric remaster of Curzon's performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20.

The Mytek seems to me to be a steal at its current price.

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Topic - Native DSD playback and Memory - Mercman 07:24:45 08/07/12 (32)

RE: Native DSD playback and Memory - ted_b 10:43:02 08/08/12 (3)

RE: Native DSD playback and Memory - Kenny B 14:13:57 08/08/12 (0)

RE: Native DSD playback and Memory - Mercman 10:57:45 08/08/12 (1)

RE: Native DSD playback and Memory - ted_b 11:04:42 08/08/12 (0)

RE: Native DSD playback and Memory - Tony Lauck 09:43:58 08/07/12 (3)

RE: Native DSD playback and Memory - play-mate 12:40:10 08/07/12 (2)

Sacd playback in cplay - theob 13:33:20 08/07/12 (1)

RE: Sacd playback in cplay - fmak 22:53:39 08/07/12 (0)

Verifies - fmak 08:52:37 08/07/12 (23)

RE: Verifies - Mercman 08:56:33 08/07/12 (22)

You - fmak 10:11:15 08/07/12 (21)

RE: You - Mercman 10:14:27 08/07/12 (20)

This excerpt from Mytek is also interesting - fmak 12:59:22 08/07/12 (19)

RE: This excerpt from Mytek is also interesting - John Swenson 15:28:48 08/07/12 (1)

RE: This excerpt from Mytek is also interesting - Tony Lauck 17:36:18 08/07/12 (0)

RE: This excerpt from Mytek is also interesting - Mercman 13:26:16 08/07/12 (16)

It seems that USB has become very popular with - fmak 14:26:51 08/07/12 (15)

RE: It seems that USB has become very popular with - Tony Lauck 15:13:07 08/07/12 (14)

When you do that - fmak 12:17:18 08/08/12 (13)

RE: When you do that - Tony Lauck 13:05:41 08/08/12 (12)

I'm not sure that is the point - bwb 14:42:07 08/08/12 (0)

Keep an open mind; - fmak 13:38:12 08/08/12 (10)

RE: Keep an open mind; - rick_m 09:09:38 08/09/12 (1)

RE: Keep an open mind;Yea - fmak 09:32:05 08/09/12 (0)

RE: Keep an open mind; - Tony Lauck 05:57:22 08/09/12 (2)

It seems - fmak 11:16:11 08/09/12 (1)

Are you talking about me? - Tony Lauck 12:17:15 08/09/12 (0)

Open mind, or empty mind? - AbeCollins 13:50:24 08/08/12 (4)

"... uninformed guessing and speculating does?" - it seems that.... - carcass93 08:20:33 08/09/12 (0)

Empty are those whose posts here get moved - fmak 23:22:56 08/08/12 (2)

It seems - fmak 06:13:42 08/09/12 (1)

Yes, you ARE the audio GOD. I bow before you -nt - AbeCollins 11:34:30 08/09/12 (0)

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