In some points i find Mids/vocals a bit harder on roon.Sometimes the Voice sounds to clinical and not smooth and rich. The mids/vocals seem a bit more meek.(With Mqa, vocals can get under your skin very well than without Mqa) Audirvana brings much more character in for it somehow. The bass is a little less full in direct comparison to Audirvana 3.5. I miss the fundamental tone to lean back.Roon obviously can not. Why? Because somehow you can't really lean back. It sounds generally not bad but is andersst.vorallem because of the constant switch in sampling, that bothers me. It does not sample me on 32/96 as I want it but plays sometimes Mqa, then again Pcm 44.1 khz and so on.You can also hear it directly out. Relatively under device setup right below is all I could find so far. The rest is smooth and mostly buttery in execution maybe a tick bright,less warm,but still good.Īs for the upsampling I still do not know where to set it exactly fix. Treble is sweetened with great low end, also accurate and on point.ĭetails are very well represented, the beat and timing are also very good. Mids/vocals on point with lots of flow, rhythm, great macrodynamics and good timing,rich timbre and good seperation of instruments. The bass is much fuller, more powerful,more rich. The links provided are local links - you'll need to hunt down the right retailers for you.Īnd the quality increase in sound has also grown again well with the Fmc boxes.And much better and Audirvana 3.5 typical. This defeats your goal of getting away from the cable but fiber is better for long runs than ethernet is (doesn't pick up any noise) if you wanted to try this solution.īoth solutions are relatively inexpensive. Just so you know, you can also use this solution with a 5 metre optical cable and you could run this straight from your router. The router solution will solve the cabling challenge, the FMC may improve performance further. You don't need to do this to solve the cabling challenge you have. The solution is here and there is lots of conversation on it in the previous pages if you want to know more. If you don't do this or don't see yourself doing this - then you may be happy with a one box solution.įMC convertor (these are being used to essentially remove noise/jitter that could be travelling along the ethernet line. I personally prefer the nest solution as I upsample via Roon / HQ Player. Here you only need one box - it will play all standard file types from any streaming service, and has only one drawback - the Zen is limited in terms of the higher file rates it will accept if you like to upsample your music. Many people prefer the LAN input here (though some prefer using a DDC).Īnother way you can do this if you don't want two extra routers in your house is to look at a Ifi Zen Stream or the newer Holy Audio Red. If you do this - you can plug one Google router into your home router, and plug the other router into the place where your hifisystem is and run a short ethernet cable from the second router into your Gustard DAC. i also have some google nest points around the house to extend my wifi coverage but the points don't have an ethernet port, so get two routers to start). Google nest router (2 of these, one for the router, one for the hifi system. To avoid the cables, the system i have achieves that (and it's listed in my signature), but there are other ways you can solve your challenges. Either the DAC will be good / great and you want to improve further, or maybe it's not for you. The first thing i'd recommend you do is wait the 200 hours until your dac is burned in and then decide where you want to go from there. Click to expand.It really depends on what you are trying to achieve.
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