Matt,
I wanted to report my findings on another dac that has both ethernet and USB input. Although I have taken great strides improving my computer server, the ethernet input improves everything by a wide margin. Considering I have invested over 10K in my computer server, it is nice to find a better work around.
Although dac design and implementation is unique, I have great confidence in Empirical's new renderer.
Steve, can you state more information regarding this unit that will be able to be used with any of your products? Would a user need to send the unit to you to replace the USB card for an Ethernet card? Or is this a separate external unit, Like a Ethernet to I2S?
I have been fortunate to be given on loan many dacs recently and believe for best results use both a PCM specific dac and a DSD specific dac. Having two dacs in your system is not inconvenient, unless you are in random play and switch between formats.
Because of the ODSE, I am not overly crazy about DSD. When I take the same recording: DSD on a universal DAC (configured for both DSD and PCM) or Redbook PCM on ODSE, 16/44.1 sounds better.
I wanted to report my findings on another dac that has both ethernet and USB input. Although I have taken great strides improving my computer server, the ethernet input improves everything by a wide margin. Considering I have invested over 10K in my computer server, it is nice to find a better work around.
Although dac design and implementation is unique, I have great confidence in Empirical's new renderer.
Steve, can you state more information regarding this unit that will be able to be used with any of your products? Would a user need to send the unit to you to replace the USB card for an Ethernet card? Or is this a separate external unit, Like a Ethernet to I2S?
I have been fortunate to be given on loan many dacs recently and believe for best results use both a PCM specific dac and a DSD specific dac. Having two dacs in your system is not inconvenient, unless you are in random play and switch between formats.
Because of the ODSE, I am not overly crazy about DSD. When I take the same recording: DSD on a universal DAC (configured for both DSD and PCM) or Redbook PCM on ODSE, 16/44.1 sounds better.