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Originally Posted by Vintage Pete
Jean-Marc jmajma....the MDA1000 may, or may not play files above 96k correctly. Honestly, for me this is not a problem. When I do play hi-res files (which isn't all that often), it is from my laptop (using a Bryston BUC-1 USB converter) through JRiver. I simply set the JRiver config to output everything at 96k max. I really can't hear the difference between 96k and 192k on my DAC's that will decode it. In fact, I stopped buying 192k FLAC files from HD Tracks. Our late friend Dan was of the same opinion; he had stopped spending the extra money on 192k FLAC files.
Nothing beats the musicality of the MDA1000....I hope to hear some sort of update from the repair center today.
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That's exactly my feeling, Pete.
For now, for the very few HiRes files, I use my BlueSound Node 2i's internal DAC which I find to be excellent by itself; I too use the Node 2i as a streamer, and through my Pioneer N7A AE internal DAC which accepts 192 files ( two DAC ESS SABRE ES9016 with 8 channels, working in parallel mode).
I did with my buddy (musician and audiophile) blind tests for comparison between all these DACs (MDA, Node, Pioneer) and between 44,&/96/192 files and we cannot find big differences.
hope you'll get very soon back your MDA.