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?
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.
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...
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:
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...
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??
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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 -...
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).
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...
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...