Recent content by dtc

A friend is considering getting an Ultra and using either a thumb drive or portable SSD for local storage. He has about 500 MB of data and it would probably be on a 1 TB drive. What are people's experience with this setup? How long does it take to index that type of system? How often does it...

Exactly. And I am used to Reply just doing a reply without quoting the original post.

Sorry, yes I keep hitting Reply which automatically adds the previous post. Not used to that in other software.

You might want to try some cables with better shielding and better connectors. And make sure the ground is attached and also try grounding it to something with an actual earth ground, which I believe the Ultra does not have. No guarantee, but worth exploring.

Some people like the sound of their DSD music played directly in DSD and not converted to PCM. Some people like equalized and room corrected music and some do not. There are too many variables to definitively say why. They real topic is simply whether Wiim will support a passthrough...

As described above, because they like the sound of DSD and, because some music is only available as DSD, including music people rip from their SACDs.

Most people who use DSD do not use it exclusively. They also want to use streaming services and to play PCM files, often with the RC, EQ, distributed speakers and other options that the Ultra provides. The idea is to integrate all those functions into a single easy to use box with one user...

A DoP file is just a wrapper around the original data. It is sent as PCM but unpacked to the original data by the DAC. However, to use that format with the Ultra you need to convert the original to a DoP format file, which very few software packages do. But it is the only way to get DSD to play...

The specs say 24/192 for usb output. Not sure why the discrepancy. If it does 32 bit, then that means native DSD may be possible at least up to DSD128.

If I remember correctly, naive DSD over usb requires 32 bit data. I do not think the Ultra supports that, but Wiim would have to confirm that. The Ultra only support up to 192 KHz/second, which limits DoP to DSD64. People have reported sending DSD64 files in DoP format to the Ultra and, with...

There is a significant amount of music, especially classical music, that is only available on SACD/DSD, in particular multichannel classical music. There are also some who think that, at least in some cases, DSD sounds better than PCM. We can leave a discussion of that to another time, but...

Some background. In many 2 wire plugs used in the US, one blade is larger than the other with matching small and large holes in the receptacle. That insures that the plug only goes in one way and that the hot is always connected to the hot and the neutral is always connected to the neutral...

FYI, there are non-polarized (Type A) and polarized (Type B) plugs. Type A are more common, but Type B do exist. It seems like Wiim just uses Type A...

Please guys, give it a rest. Nothing new is being added here.

Just note that it is a C7 2 pronged plug. That is for the Ultra not the Amp.