@ricred1 for sure, I need to experiment with all this myself first!
Sound Quality
First off, I am pleading ignorance here, so my apologies up front, but I need some help on figuring out what this digital stuff is all about. It was simple, just to pull out a CD and play it, but with streaming and such, it seems to be a whole different ball of wax.
After finally finishing the remodel on my home, I've have had a bit of time to sit down and listen to my system. My Aurender N200 came with an SD card loaded with music. Most of it is ripped from hybrid SACDs or at 16bit- 44.1kHz "Original Mastering Recording" CDs, (some are DSF files some WAV files, but all sound the same to me). The music sounds flat and dull but when I play the equivalent song on Tidal in 16bit-44.1 kHz it sounds much better.
I have a second SD card with some HD Tracks CDs at 24 bit-96 kHz that I which sound really good through the N200. Maybe understandable being hi-res, but some say they can't hear a big difference between the two, but I sure can in this instance.
I understand that up sampling, DSD and HQ Player can even bring better sound to the table, but I'm having enough trouble with just the basics here, that stuff is way over my head.
I'd like to rip a couple of my own CDs to a new SD card and try it to compare with the SD card that came with the N200. What is the best method to do this?
As always, your thought & comments are much appreciated!
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@navyachts so what’s the ETA on the DAC? |
@audphile1 said they were waiting for parts, nothing firm as of yet. Nice thing I found out, is it's already an SE unit, so saving some a bit of coin there. It's just the M1S2 and display to do now. |
@navyachts that is pretty much my philosophy. The onboard hardrive is not just for ripped CD's but for music bought online you want files for. For example I can stream Patricia Barber's Clique in hi-res through Qobuz anytime, but since I wanted the highest fidelity possible I bought the DSD512 version online. I have some a few dozen Native DSD albums in .dsf format but my current DAC doesn't yield a sonic advantage to these over regular redbook or hi-res versions streamed, and using an AES cable from my streamer I cannot play them anyway, so they sit on the hard drive unused. If one has a DAC that favours DSD files like T+A gear they may want plenty of .dsf files for critical listening sessions.
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@mclinnguy so you can buy DSD files and play them as is, you don't need software to do so, just a capable DAC @audphile1 will the M1 play DSD files? They will sound better, right? |
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