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I believe the eversolo hdmi is a proper hdmi out not a i2s out so you can’t really connect to the cyan 2 i2s input

I never notice any differences with burn in. However I do believe some devices take a bit more time for warm up. My Freya + preamp even after the 60 seconds tube warm up, it still takes a few tracks to sound optimal. Not a big deal, I just turn it on 20 minutes before I use it. I also notice...

Well it appears you are the only one that talks about the silliness of audiophile dac, audiophile cables, monoblocks...... and put up multiple "cover your face emojis" here. People here are talking about a common feature found in preamps or integrated amps that helps incorporate multiple...

My 2.2 system is the streaming setup which involves a computer with audiolense convolution for room correction. The anthem AVR runs ARC genesis for the 7.2.4. The computer is the centralized piece that routes music streams to my 5 systems in different rooms with each room has its own audiolense...

I am quite similar actually. When I want to listen to music in my 2.2 setup with just the LA4 preamp, only the LA4 needs to be turned on which triggers my power amp. If I want to do movies or gaming with the AVR, the AVR is preout to the LA4 through rca ht-bypass. If I want to listen to music...

my dac is connected through XLR to the LA4 to power amp, and RCA to the Freya +, which connects to the LA4 through ht-bypass My turntable is a cheap Marantz automatic turntable with built in phono, I don’t listen to it much to be honest, but have it connected to the LA4 through rca. Yes I have...

Ht bypass is indeed quite a common feature and comes in handy. My use case. My anthem mrx1120 receiver does my 7.2.4 atmos movies and gaming. I preout main speakers through rca from the anthem to my benchmark LA4 preamp set to ht-bypass to my power amp to speakers. I also have my 2.2 setup...

Thanks. That was a good few months ago and I have since spoken with Rory at benchmark and had it resolved.

Received my ds2 today. Installed the HD bravo driver in windows 11, no luck with dsd. In Linux I was able to do dsd128 dop. Any ideas if there might be an updated firmware or maybe asio driver? Cheers

That’s the original cyan from a number of years ago. Not the cyan 2 that launched in late 2023

Hello everyone, I just ordered the DS2 today. Silly question, it has both 3.5mm and 4.4mm outputs, can both be used at the same time to drive 2 pairs of IEMs? Cheers

My suggestion is for the few folks that apparently were bother by the fact that Fosi have something in there as an option that you do not have to use it, but it still bothers them simply by the existence of that option being there.

A number of Topping dacs now include i2s as a digital input that has no objective gains compared to using USB, i would classify that as something for audiophiles, subjective like pride...... Does it mean Topping should stop including that as a feature or everyone should vote "poor" on all its...

@Fosi Audio - wonder if this is easy solution. Make a special limited ASR edition of the same dac, solder the opamp slot so it won’t allow swapping of opamps and sell at the same price. That should satisfy both camps

Agreed 100%!!! I likely will not bother with swapping opamps but if dac A allows opamps swapping, measures identical, and has all the same features as dac B and sells for the same price, to me at least it’s a no brainer which dac I would choose. It’s great to see creativity in a highly...