Of course, that assumes that what I want to listen to over a 5 hour span is on one particular card.
Who cares? I have not played vinyl in years.
What's the best DAC digital interface possible?
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The way to do it is decide what you want to listen to, then copy it onto the card and listen. While listening, if what you copied wasn't enough, prepare the next set on your laptop while listening, and copy it onto another card. Then simply swap when ready and repeat. 2 cards is all you really need. 32 GB cards are $10 each these days.
I guess it would boil down to how much you value sound quality then. Some audiophiles spend 20X this unit on cables to achieve probably10X less performance enhancement.
I'm thinking about it, but don't really need it since I have 2 mirus's.
Just email the guy at the bottom of the link I shared.
As a loyal subscriber to Stereophile since 1993, I have been reading Kal's articles in Stereophile for as long as I remember. I remember how enthusiastic he was to hear the latest low jitter CD transports. But seems like the computer audio revolution has put convenience at #1 position, and sound quality at #2.
You can have both... Well most of us can... At least once we are cured of OCD...
No thanks. I don't want another job.
I think it boils down to the SD's superiority (for argument's sake) as a proof of concept but not a real solution.
I suppose it would take trying it to truly judge. As I have. I also dismissed it as something I would never use on the Mirus. I actually even told Dustin and Mark they should ditch it because it's not the future. Until I actually copied some files onto an SD card and decided to try it. Now Jriver/Jremote, HQplayer, Roon, pure music, Decibal, foobar, audirvana etc have been sitting idle and unused. Same with my NAA powered by low noise LPS.
Then I felt bad and made a point to apologize, and congratulate them on their achievement.
But for me sound is #1. I know not for everyone, but for me, yes.
I guess i'm a rare bird in today's digital landscape.
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32 GB is just not enough. maybe 64gb would work, but 128gb is likely the practical minimum.
No playback engine in any of these things will likely match BE. Many ways to skin a cat and with a battery powered Caps outputting i2s to a Dac with such an HDMI port and playing back upsampled to DSD256 feeding BE will likely beat the simple SD card setup for SQ and convenience.
I cannot parse this statement, possibly because I do not know what "BE" means. Can you restate please?
Blizz, Can you alert us to some of these upcoming (DSD256 capable) solutions so that we can read up and do our homework like you in ancipation of the upcoming launches.
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It's strange how the opinions from people who have tried this unit are so much different from those who haven't. I haven't read a report from 1 person who bought one of these that didn't say it was the best digital audio they have heard.
You won't find any info on the net on what I'm talking about yet. And this is OEM stuff. Minimum quantity orders will be required.
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Perhaps BE in combination with Ravenna could have a chance at competing with an SD card transport.
You never heard me say its not good. I even gave you the theoretical basis why.
However, you keep talking about ultimate SQ and Whatsbest, etc, so I feel OBLIGED to point out the theoretical shortcomings too...areas for improvement to become the "ultimate"...
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Not sure about that blizz, but since we are both speculating, fair enuff. You have your feedback and I have mine and soon we will see how it all plays out. SD card tech has been around with significant maturity since 2012 and the playback engine/UI side of things have NOT advanced much. Heck, by now I expected $300 1TB SDXC cards and they are still not even available even at >$1000.
Yes it's obvious that the data storage/GUI of these units are the downside. But in actual practice the sound quality makes up for it. So does the price. Personally I'd rather pay $450 for better sound quality, than $17000 for worse sound quality but better GUI/data storage. But to each his own. But as mentioned already, I'm hoping Ravenna is the solution that can combine the best attributes of both into 1.
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