I wanted to know if anyone over here has got the Minerva dac from Weiss. What is the sound like? also can one up-sample to 192KHz and stream it to the DAC?
I have no such equipment so I cannot conduct the test. Am happy to learn what you find out, however. I do not claim to be an authority and am only reporting what I have observed and what I am told. Thanks.
All conclude its RARE or maybe non-existent to transmit 192K/24Bits on S/PDIF perhaps I2s it is possible too.
Theoretical limit of S/PDIF is 25MBPS so a 192K 24Bit signal should be about in the range of 12MEGS which is on the border of supporting it after taking into account transmission loss. I don't know how the STACK is designed (maybe unfair to compare) but in basic networking(TC/PIP) there's a 70% transmission loss!!!
What I am interested in learning is if any person has compared a Weiss DAC against a 'respected' CD Player & can write some comments on it. I am more interested to learn how a CD Player performs against a computer / firwire DAC. Thanks.
I think there's some bad info above. For example, the RR HRx recordings are 24/176 and they can be fed with a single AES/EBU cable into a DAC such as the Berkeley.
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