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Doesn't work properly. I connect using a set of IFi leads (4.4mm jack to twin XLRs).

Just because they say it can work that way doesn't mean that it does. I have one and never got it to work that way - same problem as the OP. Mine always works balanced all the way through from the player in Pre=>Low mode balanced output via a 4.4mm jack.

It can't convert RCA to balanced that's not how it works. You need balance all the way down the chain from the source player/ streamer to the Pre amp and then onto the main amps. A player may have a balanced 4.4mm jack or XLR's - but if its just phono then you need to stay with that all the way...

I thing the smartphone + DAC is the way I am going. Looking at the Samsung Galaxy 21 with Android 14/ bit perfect output + good DAC

Do DAPs have internal memory you can copy stuff to - i didn't know.

Any recommendation on the best bit-perfect software playback?

OK I will try that - also it does run cooler if not streaming, i.e. just running from the flash card.

And would I be able to MQA files through to the DAC for decoding?

So can i hook up a tablet via USB to a DAC's usb - will that work?

Gets to way too hot when charging at the same time as playing.

I came across the Cayin iDAP-6 which can accept a USB hard drive/ flash card and gives a digital output to a DAC - I wonder if that would work? https://en.cayin.cn/features/7/59/196.html Yes that's the one + it has a swapped DAC board with dual 4497's

Any other DAP players that are main powered with an SD clot that I could connect to the DAC ?

Are there any Raspberry PI's available that are prebuilt/ off the shelve that could do the job? Just not keen to get stuck into some new avenue of tech if I don't have to.

A topic that got thrashed to death elsewhere - can anyone answer the topics question about playing SDcards through a DAC USB port?

I don't like streamers at all because of the sluggish response/ reliability/ drop out/ EMF/ ongoing cost issues, amongst others. At the moment I am using a Cayan N6 with dual 4497 DACs, and running with a flash card micro SD plugged in with all my music loaded on it in folders. Using UApp with...

I don't stream music from a service but play it from memory card - can I use this Gustard A26 with a USB hard drive plugged-in into the USB port? Or would I also need some other form of player.

When bass distortion is removed you also lose energy in the bass and that manifests itself as a leaner bass sound. Probably more a speaker short coming you are hearing now.

Well, Amir was right on this one! Replacing the onboard pre-amp on my Cayin N6ii - straight out of the box the clarity is amazing especially the upper/mid bass. So clean and punchy.

It said they were all driven with plate amps, so they are not Purifi PR's

Thanks! Seems to have no difficulty keeping up with the ribbon at sane listening levels at least, it is after all a 400W driver than reportedly exceeds 100dB. It makes the ribbon sound like its running its full range while other drivers seem to eat into/ muddy up the bottom 20% of the ribbon...