Personally I stockpiled SBTs on ebay so have a never ending supply of touchscreen bit-perfect digital sources to feed to whatever DAC takes my fancy. :) Right now it's a Mytek DSD192 (also scalped used from Ebay for a sensible price). Prior to that it was a Naim Supernait built-in DAC.
I would agree that earlier Naim gear had a very different sound from most "hifi". I heard it described once as the "big mono" sound, it really drives the bass and produces a lively immediate sound, without emphasising the "detail" that actually -is- in there, you just have to stop dancing long enough to listen for it. Later Naim gear is moving more mainstream sounding in fact (which is why they're now winning awards..). On the "bit perfect" story above. Weirdly I discovered that the SBT won't output 66khz sampled audio. Crashes every time. No idea where that track came from, but there you are; I have to resample it to play it. Other than that I have no reason to believe that any digital source is any better than this. Even a Chromecast Audio - which has a dreadful analogue output, makes a perfectly fine digital source. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114226 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
