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  1. Woland
    Woland
    Good in what way? How's the May without the upsampling?
    Nov 12, 2021
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  2. pavi
    pavi
    without the upsampling it's a very good nos dac. comparable with my reference wavedream sig/bal, but not quite in the same league. with hqplayer, it's easily as good — but different. i'm still sorting out the differences, but i'd be perfectly happy with either the wavedream or the may+hqplayer.
    Nov 12, 2021
  3. pavi
    pavi
    without upsampling, it's the wavedream for me without question. other outstanding dacs i'm familiar with that aren't at this level include the yggdrasil a2 & the hugo tt2+mscaler
    Nov 12, 2021
  4. pavi
    pavi
    in general, i'm hearing what @GoldenOne describes in his review of the holo may — except the timbre difference he describes. i like them both very much — if you like the one, you'll enjoy the other. there's a significant $ difference, of course.
    Nov 12, 2021
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  5. Woland
    Woland
    Thanks. I'm also curious about what happens as you increase the computational intensity. Have you tried stepping through Sinc-S, -L, -M, and -Mx?
    Nov 12, 2021
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  6. pavi
    pavi
    just beginning to traverse through the insane range of filters. started with sinc-m on @GoldenOne's recommendation — using his preferences, and that blew me away. the computational demand is very manageable for my iMac, but it takes me time to gain a sense of each filter — i'm not adept at describing what i hear
    Nov 13, 2021
  7. Woland
    Woland
    Sinc-S, -L, -M, and -Mx are all the same filter.. just with increasing computation applied. For PCM output, any modern laptop should be fine. The main drawback is increased lag.
    Nov 13, 2021
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  8. GoldenOne
    GoldenOne
    @Woland they're not all the same. Sinc L is a non-apodising halfband filter. Sinc-m, mx and s are apodising.

    Sinc s is a lower tap count version of sinc-m. Sinc-mx is the same but tap count scales with upsampling ratio. So it does 2m taps at 1.536mhz.

    Sinc-m and mx also have better attenuation by the nyquist Freq than sinc L
    Nov 13, 2021
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  9. pavi
    pavi
    yes, that's right of course. sinc-mx sounds slightly warmer, deeper with less of the harshness that jussi believes pcm retains — he prefers dsd. i don't hear much harsh myself with sinc-m, but sinc-mx is certainly a fuller sound, and i prefer it.
    Nov 13, 2021
  10. Woland
    Woland
    @GoldenOne Whoops. Thanks for clarifying on Sinc-L. @pavi I also use Sinc-Mx but for different reasons. The scaling makes it an intermediate-tap Sinc filter for <200kHz PCM (SPDIF limit on Schiit), and it is the highest tap Sinc filter I can do reliably on the Pi 4.
    Nov 13, 2021
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  11. pavi
    pavi
    poly-sinc-gauss and asdm7ec over sdm works just fine off the iMac, and sounds superb
    Nov 14, 2021