kren0006
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| upsampling/mqa dac If you are asking whether upscaling of MQA occurs, I don't think so on Teac. In fact, for a time I thought my Teac DAC wasn't working properly because while MQA songs were playing I was unable to change upconvert (or filter) settings on the dac i... | |
| upsampling/mqa dac The Teac NT-505 ($2k new) also does. Has two upconvert settings, one for pcm and one for dsd, that you set and then it works for sources providing those types. Leaves MQA unchanged. I set mine to upconvert to dsd512. Manual has nice chart chart th... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Thanks for those. I figured out Yamaha WXAD-10 is a European product, but the Yamaha streamer plus amp WXA-50 for $500 or WXC-50 streamer/preamp for $350 are available in US. After reading lots lots of reviews, many with experience relate that the... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system If I drop the MQA requirement - and from what I can tell so far, 99% of Tidal is non-MQA - I could do a two-box solution for $50 or $150 less than the Powernode 2i. Integrated Amp: marantz pm5005: all analog integrated 40 wpc, class AB, $500 new o... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Have about 30 hrs and counting without a drop on nt505 ... really nice sounding unit but I don’t have much of reference point to compare to of similar quality but very happy with it | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Updating a previous comment re TEAC NT-505, I seem to have (fingers crossed) fixed the drop problem by swapping out a 10 ft cat6 Ethernet cable for a 3ft cat7 Ethernet cable ( Amazonbasics, $6). Let’s hope so !To earlier comment of “buy another on... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Thx, hifihandymsn. Good to know. Ya, Bluesound is the name I keep coming back to at this budget and the front runner, although I may wait a month or so to see if marantz follows Denon (sister companies) announcement today and puts out a 2ch stream... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Interesting: just today Denon announced a $500 2 Ch receiver with hi res straming and 4k video support. Looks very similar to the Integra, but cheaper. Denon DRA-800hWonder if sister company MarantZ will follow??? | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Ah, I guess I really mean MQA plus Tidal Masters higher res stuff better than the 16 bit / 44 kHz since that’s how Tidal rolls and all I use. What are your your other contenders in $2.5k range? Off top of head could do the Cambridge Audio streame... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system That would explain why I couldn't hear difference!!! LOL. But the damn icon appears on my screen when I stream with DTM-7 - I'm stumped. And I swear the Integra web site used to tout MQA, unless I'm going batty. Maybe Integra withdrew? | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system And this MQA page lists Onkyo as a partner but not Integra.https://www.mqa.co.uk/customer/our-partnersHmm, now I'm confused ... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system But I see what you mean, prpixel. I don't see anything about MQA on current Integra DTM-7 company web page, weird. | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system See this article re Integrahttps://www.stereonet.co.uk/news/integra-the-latest-to-join-mqa-masters-raceI believe MQA support was following a firmware upgrade. Anyway, I see the MQA icon on my TV screen when I stream Tidal MQA selections via the D... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system To correct something I stated above where I speculated that Yamaha WXAD-10 might have a 24 bit DAC, it is indeed 32-bit, using Burr Brown PCM5121 DAC according to this reviewhttps://www.techradar.com/reviews/yamaha-wxad-10-musiccast-addDoesn't do ... | |
| Only $800 to work with streamer/power for 3rd system Marantz has the PM6006 integrated amp for $700 but it doesn’t include a streamer built-in. It’s too bad because Marantz does include nice streamers in their AV receivers (e.g., the 5012, now discontinued, was a 7.2 ch amp available on closeout for... |