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Guys, if you have SACD and want to play them, then this isn't your DAC. You will be very limited in your choice of DAC's as most don't do SACD. That's just your choice. The more a DAC is asked to do, the more it can take away from it's SQ. As for playing blue ray, I am using my bleary player to break mine in and am listening to it right now. I don't want a disk drive in my DAC. That's called a CD player with digital inputs which puts more things in the box and creates lesser SQ. Also, what happens when the drive unit breaks as most will eventually? That's my personal opinion and some disagree with me. It's all good. Not every component is for everyone.
I know a few folks who are keeping their DX-5 (still a wonderful unit) and getting the QX-5 for it's much better quality of sound. Like imprezap2 says, he will keep his regardless.
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Hello Olof, just curious: living in The Netherlands or Australia?
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I am Dutch but living/working in Australia at the moment, probably end of next year back to Netherlands
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Not sure I need a DX-5 given I have a C-5xeMP and Oppo 205, but I see a used DX-5 listed at what seems like a good price. But it doesn't have the DSD upgrade. What's the cost of that upgrade?
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I think it was around 1700,- Euro here in the Netherlands by dutch importer (which went out of business a while ago)
But as you already mentioned, not sure it's the way to go if you already have the 205 and the C-5xeMP. I use mine mostly to stream (USB) from my Aurender N100H, IMO this is were the advantage of the DX-5 is against the 205/C-5xeMP. If you want streaming capability, the QX-5 is the way to go at this time.
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I have a QX-5 and C-5xeMP in one of my setups, and propose to replace an Esoteric SA-60 in another setup with a DX-5 DSD. But can Roon send files to a DX-5? I'm running Roon on a Mac Mini that sends files to the QX-5 via ethernet. I'd also like to run Roon on my iMac and send files to the DX-5 via USB. The iMac is on the ethernet as well. Anyone using Roon to send files to a DX-5?
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I don't think the DX-5 is ready (or ever will be ready) for Roon, the DX-5 has been discontinued by Ayre more then 1 year ago.
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It's obvious I don't understand the relationship between Roon running on a Mac and what goes on in the player. A DX-5 DSD will work with JRiver or Audirvana, but I don't know how they differ from Roon.
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DX-5 DSD upgrade
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If I understand your question. You run Roon Core on iMac mini and use Ayre QX5 as a Roon endpoint in one system. The QX5 is Roon Ready meaning the Roon core sees it and can communicate with it using RAAT to send music files directly to the QX5. You would also like to run an iMac in another room as a Roon bridge which is doable. A Roon Bridge functions much like a Roon Ready endpoint in that the Roon Core sees it as and audio output option and can send files to it. You want to output the Roon bridge Audio output from the iMac to the DX5 via usb cable which should also be doable if setup correctly with the right drivers. The DX5 can be fed digital signals via USB. That connection has nothing to do with Roon as it is just receiving digital output signals I believe the DX5 is limited to 24/192k pcm over usb but will also accept DSD over USB Last edited by enatai252; 01-04-2018 at 07:16 PM. |
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