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It seems like about a month or 2 if ordered today. I hear they are ramping up now.

Still available? Send me a PM if so.

Roch, do you have the superclocks on your B7?

48mhz clock good for "OTHER DSD", ie 6.1mz vs 5.6mhz versions of DSD128. DSD also has 2 clock families, though the 48 family is a lot less common.

I found the Yggy DRY (needed a glass of water during the 2 separate listening sessions, LoL), but other pals love it. Go figure. It could be the ultra-neutral setup I heard it in??

Careful, MSB has recently upsgraded FW on their Dacs, plus implemented special RBCD filters and new optimised USB cards. This is not your Father's MSB anymore!! I was ho-hum about the Select 1, but the Select II is a RADICALLY different animal. However, taste and synergy does matter. I heard the Yggy a couple times ina very neutral purpose built audiophile room and found the sound very DRY! Sahara dry, not Canada Dry...LoL. Dont like it at all, but another pal with a more modest system loves it and invited me to come listen again in his system and I will take him up on it. Kudos to him if he can change my mind! Now, George, this is only my opinion and I know you love it and as such, I am very happy for you. That is all that matters.

Wow, I truly cant stand the new forum format.

Dani, the ProLogos is a $70k system and very dynamic. It converts all to 24/96 and is a powerhouse of an implementation. However, my track is an exceptional vinyl rip to DSD128 and I could bet my eye teeth that they Kii would be beaten. There is something to the midrange for jazz vocals with an analog sourced DSD128 transfer. No pcm conversion will touch it! It is well withing the sweetspot of high rate DSD...playing to its strength If you get a chance, check it out directly. PM me so I can tell you about sourcing.

For me it is Dac bal to Preamp fully bal to Amp fully balanced. There are a lot of FALSE balanced gear that accept the plugs but are not truly differentially balanced internally.

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Wonderful. I am hoping you enjoy fully....or as they say in my part of the world...FULLJOY! LoL

Dani, I am impressed with Goldmund and Kef active tech. Have not heard the Kiis yet...HOWEVER, I have a vinyl rip dem track recorded in DSD512 and the active guys convert to PCM for playback and the midrange magic is lost. Its very very good, but no longer magical. On percussive stuff the actives eat up the material, but there are certain genres where they lost to a high quality high rate DSD playback. Palpability is the best descriptor of what is lot. I guess it means that nothing is perfect....but I love my personal compromise and I too have no Dac chip in my converter and I have 3 engines!

If you have multiple inputs and engines, the vol control also acts as a remote input switch. Very convenient to swich from R2R to DSD512 engine and also between SPDIF and USB and analog pass thru.

If your system is not TOTALLY fully balanced, I would go with the SE version. If it is, then I would do DSD only as you say.

If it was a 6hr missed cutoff, it would just be better to give the guy a free upgrade and stop all the needless and distracting banter here. No need to be overly rigid!

He meant if you have to store a RBCD album that has been offline converted to DSD512!

Hi Goose, Sorry indeed for your loss, even if Gramma was old. Its hard to lose our foundation people. Stereo gave some nice recommendations, but I would also like toinclude the Lampizator Golden Atlantic with additional DSD512 module, the T+A Dac8 DSD if you mostly plan to upsample all to DSD512, Bricasti M1, the Acqua Formula Dac ($14k) but PCM only, Phasure NOS1a (PCM only), Chord DAVE ($13K), and finally the Dartzeel LHB208 which is a Ethernet Dac with a built in Dartzeel 200wpc integrated amp for less than $15K. It does up to DSD128 as well...you just need to connect to a NAS with ethernet cable and you are good to go. I like the Tube sound so I have a Lampi Golden Gate with all the bells and whistles. Point is for $10K (dac price range), the world is your Oyster! Another option is to go full active, a la Goldmund, KEF, Linn, Kii. Where the speaker is the source. Actually, its better to define a total system budget of say $25K and take a wholistic approach.

My GG was upgraded 6 weeks ago. No click or pop at all! Not sure what is going on with your Dac..

Sols, my buddies in Liechtenstein who had a demo Atlantic+ for 2 months (with both superclocks and DSD512)and now bought the GA, says that the GA is an order of magnitude better. That is hard to swallow as the demo units was bad to the bone!

Understood. In that case, yes, the DAVE, and The Lampi will be will both be low Euro10K for sure. Not sure what the Ayre Qx-20 runs for in Europe...but should be in the mix too, price wise. I own a Chord Jute EX and a Lampi Golden Gate, in case you are interested.

Golden Atlantic is less than $9K (single ended), Bricasti is about $1k more, Berk Ref2 is $19K, Formula is $14K. By way of comparison the DAVE is about $14K.

Skatbelt, you should also try thr Lampizator Golden Atlantic, The Bricasti Dac, the Berk Ref 2 and the Aqua top of the line Formula Dac.

AFAIK, the Win8 version works for Win10 too: https://amanero.com/drivers/combo384_drivers_xp_win7_win8_1057.zip

Only works with Windows ASIO driver. It is Chipless DSD, so no Dac chip whatsoever.

Amanero based USB dacs dont use bus power. On mine I use a 100ft Corning with no issues.