Yes I tried the AudioQuest Hurricane but ultimately went with an Inakustik. The Hurricane had better bass but the tone and timbre of the Inakustik was much better. Both were good, but the Inakustik sounded more natural.
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@benzman I have Acoustic Zen Absolute Copper connecting the M3 to preamp as well as preamp to amp. Sounds great! @mdrone which inakustic? The 2404 Air? Also, I’ve been running my M3 with the Linear 0 filter engaged this whole time. Last night I popped it into Minimum Phase 1 and was pleasantly surprised. Bigger soundstage and fuller without sounding dark or overly warm. |
Pretty sure the filters are just for PCM conversion as the manual states
When selecting NDSD DSD setting, the DSD post noise filtering is done in the analog domain so there are no DSD filter settings. An artifact of DSD processing is the buildup of ultrasonic noise and with DSD 64; this noise starts at 24 kHz and rises to peak level at -50 dB at 50k and beyond. In the M3 set to NDSD DSD this filter is implemented with a simple low order low pass analog filter for the very best sonic performance |
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