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Originally Posted by Cohibaman
With Dan pulling the trigger on the Yaggi and all the glowing reviews of the Gumby (Gungnir with multibit), I’m seriously considering sending my Gungnir to Schiit for the multibit update.
The only hesitation I have is that it won’t do DSD. My only source is the HAP-Z1ES and I have quite a few DSD albums. If I want to play a DSD file, I need to physically unplug the USB from the DAC and switch inputs on my C2300 to allow analog output of Sony. It’s kind of a PITA. The other choice I have is to either double up on all DSDs with Redbook CD, or abandon DSD all together.
I haven’t used the DAC with the Sony because of the lack of DSD support, so I really have no idea how it’ll compare to the Sony’s analog output. Thus far, I’ve only verified that the USB output is functional after Sony added that feature a few firmware releases ago - that was with a cheap printer USB cable.
I decided to give it a go once again, so I ordered a Wireworld USB cable from Ivan. I’ll resign myself to only listen to non-DSD for the next few days and see how I like the Gungnir, sans-multibit in comparison. Who knows, maybe I’ll send it in for the multibit update and give up on DSD.
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If you have and use Roon, you can play DSD through Gumby with Roon's DSP conversion engine, and it sounds great. I do it all the time.
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