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The review concluded it wasn’t clipping, just inability to deliver power without distorting badly.

Umm, you mean bulging?

Isn’t it reasonable to assume if two DACs have a similar deviation due to different filters he would be able to hear them? Not saying this test proves anything apart from the fact certain humans can hear differences between filters if they have different frequency response.

These are the results of upsampling not digitized on DAC output, right? Pardon my ignorance perhaps, but what kind of clock drift are we talking about here?

It’s a Swiss Army knife for anything audio filtering, it can covert to DSD yes.

Are we getting a glimpse into the actual “quality” of HQ Player processing?

Oh wow, you don’t really need to have a bat gene to be able to hear those frequencies. What’s happening here?

I thought a high enough rate would effectively disable the filter. He could also disable the filter on the May, but I didn’t hear he said he did.

So differences in the frequency response that land in the frequencies that we humans can hear are potentially audible, how old is this news? Also I was waiting he would mention intersample overs and if any attempt was made to control them but no, so unless I missed it there’s reasonable doubt...

It means the tube doesn’t amplify the signal hence the unity gain, It also means the tube is working in the cathode follower mode which allows low noise and distortion, for a tubed device anyway, which in turn means there’s no tube sound coloration here, so in other words the tube is kind of...

Hi-res vs. lossless CD quality or even high rate compressed mp3s there’s very little difference in sound, so it’s important to have correct expectations. The Apple dongle is rather weak so you may want to try adding a headphone amp for more power. If a desktop setup works you can get a JDS Atom...

What adapter (or streaming device as you say) is he using?

Budget? And to set the expectations, he may not be able to hear differences with a better device as they tend to be pretty small. Real gains are in better headphones most of the time, but you may need a more powerful amp to drive them.

This should work, but confirm with Schiit support to be sure.

https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-schiit-sys-passive-pre-amp-switcher.2335/post-1959238