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Originally Posted by Antonmb
It’s a great review Stephen. I have the previous version (Katalyst) and have thought about upgrading, but since I use a preamp and Roon, I just can’t bring myself (yet[emoji41]) to pay for the knob, the ADC, the pins, and all the other preamp functions that I would have no use for - all that bling and those functions going to waste.
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Right there with ya, Tony.
It's really a superb-sounding DAC, and its really handy that it has an Ethernet port for making connection directly to a network to function as a streamer, etc.
You know, what I'm most surprised by is that it doesn't have a "slot" for adding an internal SSD drive. Then, it could function as a true server/streamer/DAC. And a fabulous one at that. But all the other stuff you mention, e.g. the knob, ADC, the pins, preamp functions, etc. are features and functions that I personally have no use for, either. Other folks MMV, of course.
BTW, it also has an optical SFP port, but I could never figure out how to get it to work using an optical transceiver in the SFP port. If I did, I could have by-passed the EtherREGEN entirely and run an optical fiber cable from my music server directly to it via OM-1 fiber.
The fact it has... no frickin' manual (  ) did not help with with that, either.
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Last edited by Puma Cat; 11-26-2021 at 07:14 PM.
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