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Abbas has a SPDIF cable and I may try it. Someone on his forum said his cables are pretty good. |
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Anyone here seen or heard the Kassandra DAC before?
An Audio Note dac fan on another forum who's owned 15-20 DACs mentioned this as one of his top DACs now. Could not help but notice familiar similarities in the top plate cutouts and see-through glass front styling. https://ariesceratespana.com/pages/k...nature-dac-sp/ |
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Then I stumbled on this: http://borderpatrol.net/DAC.htm Where have I been? Too many DAC's and too little time. Last edited by FloridaBoy; 11-25-2018 at 02:43 PM. |
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Tube on/off feature too allows for a softer sound with tube and slightly less rolled off on the highs too. Turn off the tube, gets a tad more detailed. A nice feature, like having two DACs in one, if you like 16bit/44kHz. Last edited by decooney; 11-25-2018 at 02:25 PM. |
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From the web: What bitrate is Spotify extreme? Spotify offers low, high and extreme sound quality settings. The normal Spotify bitrate setting is 96 kbps, the high quality bitrate is 160 kbps and extreme is 320kbps. Until recently, extreme quality was only available on Spotify's desktop program, but it is now available for iOS as well. Last edited by FloridaBoy; 11-25-2018 at 03:15 PM. |
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That Spotify 320kbps stream is listenable. Well below loseless 16/44 Redbook but decent enough for non-critical listening and checking out new music.
I don't understand decooney's friend Gary telling him that a DAC won't work on Spotify Premium 192kbps. That's a fairly compressed, low data rate stream. Any DAC should be able to decode that into a 16/44 output. Perhaps there was some confusion between a 24 bit / 192K high res stream vs a 192K Mpeg compressed file. Spotify uses MP3 compression which can be readily decoded by the simplest of DACs. There is no Spotify streaming option which requires an advanced DAC. |
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Digital makes me crazy..short trip for me. |
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Got a deal on a Boulder 1021 CD/Streamer Player.
Anxious to see how it performs next to my Ayre QX-5 Twenty???? |
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