Hi Friends, If this topic has been covered before, please let me know (but I didn’t find it in an initial search). I own a Rossini but have read much about the Wadax (and its corresponding price tag). Unfortunately, I have only had an opportunity to hear a Wadax Reference DAC once, briefly at an a…

[image] StoogeMoe: It’s the same thing I think Melco said about CD rips. Theirs is bit perfect. This is to imply that maybe the conversion you’re using is screwing up! I better buy Melco then. I have to have bit perfect! “Bit Perfect” is a standard phrase used throughout the digital audio wor…

[image] PAR: It is a phrase mostly used to distinguish a lossless system from those using lossy codecs such as MP3 or AAC I just want to make sure we add MQA to this list of lossy codecs… …which, to this day, dCS still supports and not DSD256, inexplicably.

Yes MQA may be considered as not bit perfect. There is a reason why DSD 256 has not been implemented on older dCS models ( Varese has it). There has recently been a lot of discussion about it on this forum. Basically it is not technically feasible with the existing hardware. DCS are trying to thin…

[image] PAR: Basically it is not technically feasible with the existing hardware. Hi Pete, thanks for the reply. I’ve been part of and following these threads but I didn’t see where/if dCS has made that statement officially. Have they?

The statement was made during the webinar which although mainly concerned with Varese also touched upon some user queries. The topic has been referred to here several times since.

I ask because this was recently communicated to me through a dCS channel, specifically about DSD256: “At this time there is not any info about that feature. They say the interest just isn’t there.” So I was hoping there might be a definitive statement on the matter.

You are welcome to visit me in Atlanta and I can demonstrate the difference.

[image] PAR: Basically it is not technically feasible with the existing hardware. DCS are trying to think of a way around this but whether or not they find an answer is not guaranteed. Which is quite disappointing given they’ve been telling us for a few years it was doable in software when th…

[image] BillK: Which is quite disappointing given they’ve been telling us for a few years it was doable in software To be fair,from recollection the question that they were posed was only whether or not there is sufficient processing power for DSD256, not if there could or would be a software…

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I was on that same call and what I heard was that while there is plenty of headroom for this in the processing pipeline there is a choke point in the network interface which engineering is trying to find a workaround for. It sounded like WIP to me.

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