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Post by Axis on Sept 20, 2016 14:09:30 GMT -5
lonnie Full size rack and keep it fully balanced. It has to compete with the shiit yggy regarding sound quality I like the full rack width, too. I like a full rack myself !  But don't go messing with the compact nature of the DC-1. Make something else and call it something else. |
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Post by Bonzo on Sept 20, 2016 14:20:26 GMT -5
I like a full rack myself ! Me too. Main reason I married my wife!   +1. Exactly. |
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Post by qdtjni on Sept 20, 2016 15:01:23 GMT -5
I would love to have a good DAC with highres Dirac built into it.
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Post by jlamo on Sept 20, 2016 15:02:31 GMT -5
All I can say right now is there is one in the works. Without giving away what I'm working on, I am curious as to what features or things you guys would like to see on it. I just want to make sure that what we are building falls in line with what our customers want. So here is your chance. Tell me what you want to see in it. Lonnie It would nice to integrate a dc-1 for music only purpose, into a ht pre/pro or receiver based system with the addition of a HT bypass option included in the dc-1 or alike Dac. |
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Post by Axis on Sept 20, 2016 15:54:03 GMT -5
You really want to be able to do something special with a DAC. Make it take a HDMI input and give it outputs for mains, center, surrounds and sub. |
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Post by Hair Nick on Sept 20, 2016 15:54:49 GMT -5
I like the full rack width, too. I like a full rack myself ! But don't go messing with the compact nature of the DC-1. Make something else and call it something else. But if we make the new Stealth DAC full width then that would interfere with the XDA-3 we are working on.  |
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Post by Axis on Sept 20, 2016 15:58:02 GMT -5
I like a full rack myself ! But don't go messing with the compact nature of the DC-1. Make something else and call it something else. But if we make the new Stealth DAC full width then that would interfere with the XDA-3 we are working on. Nick you got the wrong guy ! I agree make your XDA-3 ! That rhymes ! |
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Post by teaman on Sept 20, 2016 16:12:15 GMT -5
I like a full rack myself ! But don't go messing with the compact nature of the DC-1. Make something else and call it something else. But if we make the new Stealth DAC full width then that would interfere with the XDA-3 we are working on. Thanks Nick, I was going to post that about the possibility of an XDA-3 taking over. Any idea on a time frame? |
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Post by Hair Nick on Sept 20, 2016 16:25:33 GMT -5
But if we make the new Stealth DAC full width then that would interfere with the XDA-3 we are working on. Thanks Nick, I was going to post that about the possibility of an XDA-3 taking over. Any idea on a time frame? No time frame yet. Would like to hear some features you guys are looking for on that product as well. |
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Post by geebo on Sept 20, 2016 16:30:56 GMT -5
Thanks Nick, I was going to post that about the possibility of an XDA-3 taking over. Any idea on a time frame? No time frame yet. Would like to hear some features you guys are looking for on that product as well. DSD A USB type A port for memory devices. Balanced headphone amp. |
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Post by brutiarti on Sept 20, 2016 16:37:33 GMT -5
If there is a xda-3, i will like to see it fully balanced, dual mono and 2RU height. No tone controls or volume. A reference dac that can compete with the yggy and other higher end dacs for half the price, maybe?
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Post by Axis on Sept 20, 2016 16:44:03 GMT -5
No time frame yet. Would like to hear some features you guys are looking for on that product as well. DSD A USB type A port for memory devices. Balanced headphone amp. Geebo not trying to fight you dude ! Here we go ! Make it big Nick. XPA-3 can be huge and have everything we want all in one. |
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Post by geebo on Sept 20, 2016 16:50:41 GMT -5
DSD A USB type A port for memory devices. Balanced headphone amp. Geebo not trying to fight you dude ! Here we go ! Make it big Nick. XPA-3 can be huge and have everything thing we want all in one. How about a screen to display what's playing then?  |
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Post by Axis on Sept 20, 2016 16:53:58 GMT -5
Geebo not trying to fight you dude ! Here we go ! Make it big Nick. XPA-3 can be huge and have everything thing we want all in one. How about a screen to display what's playing then? Yes ! |
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Post by Percussionista on Sept 20, 2016 16:55:36 GMT -5
All I can say right now is there is one in the works. Without giving away what I'm working on, I am curious as to what features or things you guys would like to see on it. I just want to make sure that what we are building falls in line with what our customers want. So here is your chance. Tell me what you want to see in it. Lonnie It would nice to integrate a dc-1 for music only purpose, into a ht pre/pro or receiver based system with the addition of a HT bypass option included in the dc-1 or alike Dac. +1 DC-1 is integratable into a surround system but still awkward. I do most of my listening at the PC via the DC-1 to either headphones or Stealth-6's. Would be nice make it easier to turn on the surround components to play through the DC-1. If it had a XSP-1 type of theater bypass then I could also have the sub on with the Stealth's, and then do the full surround with fronts/sub bypass on a DC-1. What I'm not sure of, is, what market is the DC-2 now being looked at for? Is it going to take on some home features that a recording studio might not be interested in... though I suppose even there they might want to be able to work on surround in the studio as well. What the XDA-2 had that DC-1 doesn't is more inputs. If one of the digital inputs was taken, that's it for that type of digital input. What would be cool for me, and probably very few other people, would be two USB inputs (selectable) so I could more easily connect two computers to the DC-1. Right now I have an outboard switcher. (Also an outboard KVM switch for the keyboard/mouse, which has to be separate otherwise there is lots of distortion to the DC-1). Seems to me I'd rather have a combination DC-1/PS-1 rather than the two separate units, though I think the phono processing may also be limited appeal (some will definitely want, others like me could care less). With apologies to those that differ, I would refer to record playing still as niche technology, with some recent increase in interest, but still rather niche. So, I still want top quality audio, including driving hard to drive headphones, more inputs - basically an analog+digital pre-amp. I'll live without a radio tuner (though I'd be happy to have one). So, a higher end version of the PT-100, but only stereo - I say this having no idea how the PT-100 compares to the DC-1. Heck, if the eventual EMP-1 single-rack height surround component met all the stereo/surround needs (headphones too), as clean and wonderful as the DC-1, then maybe I should really go that way. One nice box to put under my monitor, fewer cables, easy (hopefully) to operate. However, I'm more likely to get an EMP-1 for the main theater room, and bump the UMC-1 and UMC-200 in the house to other rooms (UMC-1 to the PC as it's the only one that has digital stereo out, for input to a PC for recording.) |
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Post by Chuck Elliot on Sept 20, 2016 17:03:58 GMT -5
I think there is some mixing of functionality here. As an example there is no data to be displayed from a PCM signal in. The tag info has been stripped from the file by the decoder.
Talking the DAC part, I agree with the bare bones view - no volume or Headphone output etc. This unit should be just a DAC, and the best possible!
A complementary unit that could perform other functions is the RPI/Volumio unit spoken of.
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Post by klinemj on Sept 20, 2016 17:07:46 GMT -5
OK, so we got DSD, what else would you like to see? Lonnie Selectable filters...and a toaster feature. Mark |
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Post by Bonzo on Sept 20, 2016 17:07:51 GMT -5
But if we make the new Stealth DAC full width then that would interfere with the XDA-3 we are working on. But that's impossible, because you guys said in so many words the XDA was a dead program. Years ago the 3 was coming SOON, then it got put on the back burner, then it got killed completely. I was in both threads. I was disappointed by it's death, because a 3 with the Stealth quality, no headphone amp, no volume, more inputs, and rack size is what I've wanted for years.   (Note: If I get some time I'll go find those threads)But, oh, wait, that's right, the number one thing I've learned about Emotiva is that you all like to change you minds with even the slightest breeze. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it means nothing, and some times it sucks. But changing your minds about everything concerned with Emotiva is a constant change within itself. So nothing new here.  On this particular front, hell yeah, the XDA-3 is what several of us have talked about for like years now. There is already a big thread about what people were looking for. I'll find it if I get time. This time change is good. |
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Post by Loop 7 on Sept 20, 2016 17:12:40 GMT -5
I absolutely love my XDA-2 Gen 2 but, if I were running Emotiva, I would include capability to disable all illumination or, at the very least, the sample rate display.
Emotiva is going to have to really work hard to surpass the XDA-2 Gen 2.
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Post by garbulky on Sept 20, 2016 17:16:10 GMT -5
No time frame yet. Would like to hear some features you guys are looking for on that product as well. DSD A USB type A port for memory devices. Balanced headphone amp. Dual mono. Better headphone amp - preferrably balanced - but I guess that's kind of a lot to ask. Keep the same XDA remote. It's great! Improve the volume increase speed. The XDA-2 volume increase was too slow. |
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But don't go messing with the compact nature of the DC-1. Make something else and call it something else. 
