Hi everyone,
Newly lurking on ASR and reading reviews of ”perfect” measuring DACs, I am coming to the community to have your opinion whether I would benefit from a new DAC.
Part of this comes from me registering on Tidal and being curious about possible improvements a MQA DAC would provide.
I have discovered the controversy around MQA here, researched a bit and agree that it doesn’t seems to be what it says on the tin. Nevertheless, until Qobuz comes up with a service like Tidal connect, I will stick with it and don’t mind paying a few $ more for the MQA unfold.
I have had my current setup for the last 6 years and so far it has worked great.
- RPi 2 with Hifiberry Digi+Pro running HifiberryOS+Tidal connect docker&NAS
- Matrix Mini-I Pro 1st version (DAC + preamp)
- Opal Event (balanced)
The DAC chip is the ESS9016 32bits but I couldn’t find any proper measurments like amirm does, only the official figures - see below.
Do you think one of the new DAC+Preamp measured here (x18,D90se,su-9, okto8 etc.) offer an noticeable improvement over the mini-I?
Thank you
Newly lurking on ASR and reading reviews of ”perfect” measuring DACs, I am coming to the community to have your opinion whether I would benefit from a new DAC.
Part of this comes from me registering on Tidal and being curious about possible improvements a MQA DAC would provide.
I have discovered the controversy around MQA here, researched a bit and agree that it doesn’t seems to be what it says on the tin. Nevertheless, until Qobuz comes up with a service like Tidal connect, I will stick with it and don’t mind paying a few $ more for the MQA unfold.
I have had my current setup for the last 6 years and so far it has worked great.
- RPi 2 with Hifiberry Digi+Pro running HifiberryOS+Tidal connect docker&NAS
- Matrix Mini-I Pro 1st version (DAC + preamp)
- Opal Event (balanced)
The DAC chip is the ESS9016 32bits but I couldn’t find any proper measurments like amirm does, only the official figures - see below.
Matrix Audio Mini-i Pro Manual (Page 15 of 18) | ManualsLib
www.manualslib.com
Do you think one of the new DAC+Preamp measured here (x18,D90se,su-9, okto8 etc.) offer an noticeable improvement over the mini-I?
Thank you