Thks ! I was hoping to avoid a usb cable upgrade. : )
Wich sotm r u using?
dx-usb-hd with super clock option. Powered by battery.
It was magical with totaldac d1-dual, with sonore microrendu as naa, hqplayer with no processing at all, wav files on nas.
Then I got on the stupid upgrade train, software was updated by sonore and hqplayer, tried a supposedly superior reclocker, etc and never got the magic back.
Fast forward to buying the extreme, fabulous software upgrades by Taiko and buying back my sotm dx-usb-hd (for what id sold it for) and in Jan I had achieved magic+ with now a totaldac reclocker sublime and Triunity DAC.
I am a fully convinced disciple of the "software is at least 90%" which can be hard to believe but was so obvious when Taiko upgraded, in dec.23, just the priorities that processes were assigned across the cpu cores......to my ears the single biggest jump in sound quality yet and this was with the exact same windows software! My conclusion-- Taiko really knows and understands what they are doing.