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Mac mini to Majestic via USB
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Points: 1665 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Chris Firth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2025 at 7:38pm
Graham designed it to not require special drivers for Windows PCs, which means that it's 48 kHz by default.
Windows running computers can only transmit high bitrates natively by installing specialised drivers to bypass the Windows mixer.
If Windows doesn't recognise the receiving chipset as high bitrate capable it will always default to the base behaviour.
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Points: 1665 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Chris Firth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Feb 2025 at 7:46pm
The last time I heard a Majestic was around at Graham's a good few years ago, as I'd taken a pair of speakers around.
I had my Squeezebox Touch playing files off an SD card, some of which were CD rips, and some were 24/96 and 24/192 files, and things sounded excellent being transferred at native bitrates over coax S/PDIF.
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Many thanks to all for the replies! It was as I hoped - a USB C to B cable will do the trick Thumbs Up
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Chris mentioned a Squeezebox Touch . . . I've just replaced one of mine with a WiiM Ultra acting as a Roon endpoint. What a fantastic piece of kit that is - especially for the money. 
Bob

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Accession MC/Enigma, Accession MM, Reflex M, Elevator EXP, Era Gold V
Solo ULDE, Novo, Lautus USB and digital, Libran balanced, CuSat50
2 x Proprius + Spatia/Spatia Links
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I have also been tempted to try a base spec M4 Mac Mini and connect one of the USB-C/Thunderbolt ports to the Majestic USB via a Lautus USB cable, where I would use a small USB-C to USB-A adapter plug to plug the cable into the Mac Mini. I have been too preoccupied with my Ryzen x86-64 mini-PCs lately though.
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Ah, the shared joy of tech! I still have a GSP cable between my Nucleus Plus and Majestic.
Jon

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