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GuiseleyDavid
New Member Joined: 08 Jan 2018 Location: Leeds Status: Offline Points: 6 |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2018 at 9:39pm |
I have many large files on hard drive that are too large in sample rate for the maximum specification on the USB input on the DAC. As a simple non engineer I wish to know if the Dac will play them and if so will it do them justice. I note that we are advised that if we only look at the specs, we will miss out on the music. I am on the waiting list to borrow a DAC and if it won't play them I can withdraw and not waste peoples time. I am using a GS MM phono stage and am waiting for delivery on a MC phono stage, so as a big fan, I am hoping that I can use the DAC.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Chris Firth
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The USB input spec for the Majestic was chosen because special drivers would not be required.
Your computer's default behaviour is to play the file, using whatever resources it takes to do the job. This includes downsampling files, which is what the computer should do transferring the data over USB. So the short answer is yes, it should play your files. But there is a cost, and it depends on the operating system of the computer hooked up to the DAC how big that cost is. |
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GuiseleyDavid
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Thank you, is it worth continuing with loaning a DAC from you and seeing how it performs, or should I look elsewhere?
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Chris Firth
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Try it and see what you think of it.
How do you play your files currently, and by that I mean computer type, OS & media player? |
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BackinBlack
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Hi David and welcome to the forum. I, like many others here have quite a variety of music files from 320k mp3 to 192k/24 bit. They reside on a 500GB SSD attached directly by USB and also a 2TB NAS vis ethernet to a Raspberry Pi3 with HiFiBerry Digi+ HAT feeding to my Majestic via SPDIF. I can also feed via USB, although I prefer the SPDIF as it has better isolation due to transformer couplin. The Pi runs Moode audio player and is set to resample everything to 96k/24 bit which the Majestic handles without problem and sounds quite excellent. I would therefore recommend that you do try out the Majestic, with USB and SPDIF inputs. I would also recommend the Raspberry Pi solution as it can give much better sound quality than most computers due most likely to it being used as a dedicated audio device. As has been said many times on this forum - don't get hung up on the numbers! Hope this helps Ian |
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Just listen, if it sounds good to you, enjoy it.
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GuiseleyDavid
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Windows 7 on a crappy Pipo computer (so as not to have fans running) using foobar into the USB on a Arcam irDACII.
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GuiseleyDavid
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Thank you
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