![]() Problem is I bought from BH Photo, and have been informed that I have no return or exchange options on the Mini M1. Others seems to use a WIN based machine with an i7 chipset. Moreover, when comparing to my 2014 mini, and Mac Pro 2013, the sound output from the M1 mini is degraded - it sounds worse, highs are harsh and lows are muddy. So it is resampling everything to 48kHz, regardless if the audio file is 44.1, 96.0, or 192.0. Supposedly the M1 is supposed to have a powerful and flexible CPU chip, and the smaller format was valuable to me as it takes up less room in my audio cabinet. In fact, there is no other choice in the Audio MIDI Setup, only 48kHz. ![]() HQP also sounds better because it has superior DSP for upsampling, which you can use to replace the mandatory (and usually hardware constrained) upsampling that occurs in nearly all DACs. So far I cannot get the computer to do this without noise. With Audirvana 3.5, you can, if you want to, stream to a dedicated HQP OS machine as well. So, the music program needs to convert any signal, whether it be 16/44.1 or DSD64/128 to DSD256 and feed it to the DAC. The DAC chip has been configured to run at DSD256, and the unit itself is reported to offer its highest sound quality when fed that signal. This particular DAC is not typical, and this may be my issue. It seems to me that most DSD capable DAC will play whatever the native format is, and then once you have a DSD encoded file then you use that particular output. This has been my first attempt at using a DSD capable DAC, and so far its not working out very well LOL. I just recently aquired this DAC and moved to Audirvana for the server program, previously I was using Pure Music with an Audio Magic DAC which was a multi bit design capable of doing up to 24/192. ![]() My previous Mac was a late 2012 with 16 GB of RAM. ![]()
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