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    Why doesn’t dCS partner with CH Precision for transports?

    Obviously I’m not interested in personalized responses. Keep it to just facts please, not conjecture.
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    Why doesn’t dCS partner with CH Precision for transports?

    So, you're asking dCS to throw away all their R&D efforts in properly qualifying the D&M transport and instead partner with a competitor, all on the sole basis of you experiencing your friend's esoteric transport and your Rossini??? Is this a joke?
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    Why doesn’t dCS partner with CH Precision for transports?

    And what is the basis for your comment that it's not at the Esoteric level? Do you have any evidence of this or just your conjecture?
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    Why doesn’t dCS partner with CH Precision for transports?

    What thorny problem? dCS fully qualified the D&M transport to meet their strict requirement, as compared to the VRDS Neo, and implemented it in the $47K Rossini Transport. They don’t need CH Precision.
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    What SPECIFICALLY is better or different about the Wadax Design? How do these design choices manifest in better sound?

    You’re quite right. I am speculating; that Wadax doesn’t measure up to the best DACs currently available. Well, more like an educated guess really, because even if a single point of Wadax's website claims was true, they wouldn't hesitate to have the likes of Stereophile test it and shout from...
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    What SPECIFICALLY is better or different about the Wadax Design? How do these design choices manifest in better sound?

    No need to look too far and wide, the Wadax Reference DAC website itself has all sort of fantastical claims with zero proof Yup, super fantastical claims :cool:
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    What SPECIFICALLY is better or different about the Wadax Design? How do these design choices manifest in better sound?

    Just my personal opinion. If one looks back at Wadax’s earliest documentation, specifically their “Why Wadax” paper from 2009/2010 (well before marketing fluff took over), it’s clear that the musicIC ASIC, which, let’s be honest is Wadax’s only real tangible differentiator, was designed to...
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    The Digital Director - A new MSB product improving everything from the source to the output

    Why would any purist 2-channel Audio system manufacturer want to pollute they system with the Clocking and support circuitry required for a HDMI extractor??
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    You've just contradicted yourself - we know high-order harmonic distortions are occurring precisely because "conventional" engineering instruments tell us so! The fact is, today's measurements instruments do reveal pretty much everything thats audible and much more that isn't. We just don't...
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Probably doesn’t belong in this thread... but IMHO, it’s quite simple really; Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. https://wadax.eu/reference/ … such extraordinary claims, all without any evidence so far (and no, I’m not interested in random people's subjective opinions). Of...
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Huh??? I cannot own a WADAX?? And you know this how?? That's a rhetorical question by the way, no one cares about your childish pissing contest here. It's quite simple really; dCS have proven themselves over the course of nearly 30 years, in both subjective and objective performance, everything...
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Huh?? I didn't ask you whether you're interested in measurements. In fact, I couldn't care less what you're interested in. Maybe I will ask Javier. That said, if WADAX is not willing to stand by any measured performance through Stereophile or other reputed 3rd parties, at it's price-point, and...
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Huh?? I'm specifically interested in seeing the WADAX's measurements as apparently true excellence has no short cuts, and they touched almost theoretical measurements - all according to the designer. So, let's see it please.
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Yes. That being said, it would be a shame if the measurements don't go public, assuming they're from a reliable source. I'm looking forward to WADAX having Stereophile review and measure their system.
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Can you point to where one might view the Wadax system measurements?
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    I think dCS won't tell you much because you're asking the wrong question and based on just some vague subjective opinions. They are a very rigorous detail oriented engineering company. Maybe you'll have better luck asking some of the regular forum insiders.
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    What are you talking about?? "Mosaic" is all those 3 parts. Get educated.
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    By the way, "Mosaic 1.2" update refers to 3 elements; Mosaic App, Mosaic Control, and Mosaic Processor - all 3 were updated, and thats what James was referring to. Go read the Release Notes.
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    Why not ask James to clarify on the network board as well, rather than just speculating? I hear absolutely no difference on my Vivaldi
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    Breaking news from DCS….

    You missed the part where dCS Engineers have already explained unambiguiously that the new firmware update has no impact on SQ.
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    Emm labs DA2 v2 upgrade

    I have no idea with respect to it's use with EMM Labs. In normal data communications use though, there is zero loss of signal integrity when using this type of optical switch.
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    Emm labs DA2 v2 upgrade

    As far as I can tell, the EMM Optilink port is just a standard ST Optical interface. So, just get yourself an ST Interface A/B switch box. Like this; https://www.amazon.com/Black-Box-Desktop-Latching-Connectors/dp/B00BN3YWM0/ Problem solved
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    Wadax Reference Dac and Server arrive

    In other words, similar to Room correction/DSP applied in the digital domain, but less flexible as it's implemented on an ASIC, and only in relation to the hardware pipeline within the Wadax, not end-to-end. Realtime is irrelevant as audio streams are very low-bit rate in the context of...
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    Wadax Reference Server

    The word that comes to mind is; garish.
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    ZERO LINK: A new technology from SFORZATO and SOULNOTE in Japan (with sample WAVs)

    I understand what you’re saying. The problem is, without detailed technical background information on how the X-3 works and how it can be better than other reference Clocks, it’s very difficult to just accept various sighted subjective opinions. The website -...
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    ZERO LINK: A new technology from SFORZATO and SOULNOTE in Japan (with sample WAVs)

    Thanks, I'll give them a listen. Looks like they were recorded via a TASCAM DA-3000, hopefully sync'ed to the same S-3 Clock via a divider (the TASCAM does not support 10MHz clock input).
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    ZERO LINK: A new technology from SFORZATO and SOULNOTE in Japan (with sample WAVs)

    I see, so it's just the subjective opinion of one individual, not any objective measurement as such. Thanks for letting us know Oda -san. :)
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    ZERO LINK: A new technology from SFORZATO and SOULNOTE in Japan (with sample WAVs)

    Could you explain on what basis it is "better than 10 times price clock..."?? Can you give us a view of the measurements?
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    Are CDs Digital or Analog

    Rubbish article. For example, the Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Coding error correction employed by the Red book standard is very robust. It's not a "guess". Anyone who wants to learn exactly how Audio CDs work should stop reading nonsense websites like 6Moons and instead read a book like the...
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    Thanks for posting. These results are much more in line with what I would have expected. The tool you really need is a Power Analyzer with a Power Clamp meter and an AC cord with stripped covering so that you have access to just the Live wire which can be clamped to measure in real-time the...

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