Interesting thread...
I am a big fan of Ray Charles (I know very well his records) and I am
quite an old school ears guy (preferring old uncompressed (dynamically)
standards to modern production).
But I find this Genius love company quite well produced for a modern
prod, regardless of artistic
iwalker wrote:
How do you control volume? I understand that the Mytek has both digital
and analogue volume control options which can be bypassed.
I am feeding a preamp, so volume control is bypassed both in the
transporter and the Mytek.
I had made some interresting comparisons between
Yes I have tried the Mytek in studio configuration with active
monitoring speaker.
Mytek Analogue should be the best option in this case.
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Web radios (and streaming services like spotify) play fine with the TP
slaved to the DAC (set at 44.1k).
Setting up the wrong samplerate will affect playback speed for local
music and radios as well (at 88.2k, radio plays twice as fast, with
rebuffering periods...)
In the same league, I use a Mytek Stereo192 with pleasing results.
All those Lavry / Weiss / Mytek converters are pretty neutral en
detailled.
In comparaison, the Transporter DAC sound slightly veiled / fatted
I use the Mytek to slave the Transporter thank's to the worldclock
input, making it a
garym wrote:
If the 24/x files are from the exact same master as the 16/x files,
there is no benefit to the high res files (other than to the sellers
removing cash from your bank account). Plenty of evidence from
rigorously done experiments that people can't detect the difference
between
I am using a Transporter slaved to a external DAC (Mytek Stereo 192) and
it work perfectly.
Clocking the transporter to the DAC (using worldclock) is an improvement
compared to only feeding the DAC in 'sync' mode.
I was quite surprised myself by the sound improvement, as this DAC is
known for