I admit I have not been giving the love the cyan 2 deserves lately while I am honeymooning with the dsc2, the sound of which is simply too addictive…, everytime i swapped in the cyan 2 for a brief session, it puts a smile on my face. Everything just sounds right and makes me feel guilty of not...

Can’t see why you would not be happy with the Cyan 2 really.

There really isn’t much to chase after dsd1024 anyway, unless you are looking for added noise

Exactly, I took my DSC2 (not to be mistaken with DCS 2) to my friend's place to compare with his Aqua La Scala MKii. He was absolutely blown away and asked me how much did it cost and guessed at least $3500 being a DIY dac

I am not sure why ppl associate sound quality with price. I have heard some very expensive dacs and the cyan 2 sounded better hands down… I have no doubt dacs do sound different and it’s pretty easy for ppl to associate that dac A is expensive and sound different = better. I have not heard the...

I could be wrong. But the correction to me is most apparent in DSD512, it was used to be not as clean, less forward compared to DSD256. With the correction, noise floor is much closer to DSD256. I am not sure how it is possible but with the correction, bass seems to hit a bit harder as well. I...

I was a bit over cautious initially (being one of the pioneers ordering the cyan 2 with Jo) If I have to do it again or purchasing a Serene with Jo, I would not hesitate to use another cheaper payment method

I actually paid with PayPal to Jo, if you don’t mind additional service charges

Agreed on both but recently preparing the poly-sinc xtr short mp or the xtr short lp a bit more

Enabling dac correction will work now even not setting the pipeline to 8 under the advance settings

If you are attempting to set pipeline to 8 to address the dac correction setting. The latest hqplayer desktop version had already the memory and cpu resource issue

Yes, in a few weeks time, this thread will be dead quiet again once ppl on the waiting list get their units!!! :beyersmile: What else is there to talk about really, after coming back to this thread and praise about it being stunning, then you just go back and enjoy your music...

I was very decisive and took advantage of the early bird special pricing at Wildism audio back in December, rather than speculating and “let’s wait for xxx’s review before I make the decision”

Cyan2 owners too busy enjoying their music hence the quietness. There’s absolutely nothing to complain about.

There really is no sound quality difference with upsampling to 44 or 48 base, it just uses more resources

That could very well be possible actually. I will just have to listen to the dsc2 more to see anymore issues. Cheers

Thanks, only in some occasions I think. Setting output rate fixed at 24.5M seem to have fix it.

Hi chief. For your dsc2, just like to confirm if you have any issues with some kind of interference/noise when you do dsdx44.1? I previously had enabled 48k dsd, and checked adaptive family rate so 44.1 source gets upsample to 22Mhz dsd and that gives me some weird interference like RF. I have...

Yes, for many of us having been listening to pcm for the longest times, it may take our ears some times to adjust to the cleaner, smoother, better coherency of dsd. I might be the odd exception that the moment I listened to dsd, I was in love with it and could not have ditched the harsh boxy...

Indeed last night I let qobuz keep playing piano solo, violin and some chamber music through the night with the pro idsd and using the poly sinc hb 2s and thought that was really good haha

Nah, I am finding the longer filter, the more smear in the highs and muddies the bass too, which is perfectly fine for slower pace music, or jazz/classical, but it’s really apparent say you listen to more complex/faster pace/bass music - say Green Day, Rancid, Metallica…

I am in agreement with the gauss but I also quite like the gauss long and felt they are very close with gauss long just bringing an extra bit of “air”

Google her up!!! Her live album with the Icelandic symphony was insanely good too

Goosebumps, wow!!! dsd512x48 7EC super!!! Listening "Bewitched: The Goddess Edition" album by "Laufey" on JPLAY app.

My raspberry pi 5 can run pcm 20/1536 to the cyan 2. Try not using the red