Audio Aero Capitole MK II: Performance & Problems

How long does to take to break-in, particularly the top-end?
Is everyone running it direct?

Matt- Thanks for your insight, though my problem is that I am trying to use the capitole as a DAC/pre for my DVD source and I feed it a co-ax digital input and I switch it to co-ax input on the capitole I get nothing. I was wondering if I was missing something?? I have heard the mechanical relay clicks, I just get no sound. Thanks in advance for any further help.

Gladstone- I am going to say your damn close to being broken in after 14 days of playing 24 hours a day- it starts getting good at around 7 days but it takes a while to get the last little bit. I am running direct and plan to in the future as well.

Just to understand, you are not sending a 5.1 movie or dts cd disk or multi chn to the CAP via the coax correct ?..also, see if your DVD player is set to PCM output, and also has the ability to output 96khz..if so, enable those.

When Selecting the co-ax in, keep in mind the output is via the analog outs of the CAP...

hope that helps..

Matt
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Badwisdom, I'm really curious about the P3 software as I seem to be experiencing different behavior with the transport than others are reporting. Perhaps the different functionality with the previous track selection is an indication of the P3 software???????

Tim, I believe the source of your problem is probably as Matt has described. The Capitole is not (yet anyway) capable of decoding 5.1 sources and requires the input device to deliver a PCM signal.

That is funny my old Accuphase DC-330 would accept a coax input from my DVD player and produce two channel sound- keep in mind the dc-330 was strictly a two channel product as well. I checked the back of the DVD player and above the coax and toslink output it says Bitstream/PCM, any thoughts on that? I have two dvd players a cheaper Toshiba and a 9000es and neither work(both worked on the accuphase). This is really quite unusual.