Aleg wrote:cvrle59 wrote:My problem is that my DAC can't play 448 or 100000, but I was listening V16 last night without any serious testing. It does perform well, I would say.
Gordon - any chance for V16 2000000, please? I would like to experience hirez with this version.
cvrle59
How do you start your music and from what format (flac or wav).
What I notice for example is that when I start an avx version via mqnload from a flac file, it can take 1-2 minutes before playback actually starts.
The pause between flac conversion and mqncontrol startup takes quite a long time and then after the listing of the tracks it again takes a long time before the track load counter comes into view.
If I start from wav files, it start quite fast with no obvious pause anywhere.
Maybe something to try if applicable to you?
cheers
aleg
I start with mqnload, and always waw, no flac, all converted. The problem is my DAC. It would start playing, but after few seconds just crackling noise. I have contacted Naim about V1 and buffer size. This is what Steven Hopkins came back with.
"I started to have a look at MQn, but I wasn’t able to get it to queue any music in a short space of time and need to do a more thourough investigation in the New Year. The DAC-V1 audio buffer is set to about 30ms, but reduces with increasing sample rate.
The MQn 10ms buffer sounds very optimistic as many operating systems have a timer resolution greater than that. Some hardware may perform better than others depending on the chipset used.
If you are using the naim DAC-V1 custom driver, check that it’s the latest. Youcould try the standard windows driver to see if that makes a difference?"
I like this DAC so much, so I asked him if there is any chance they change it with some firmware update. His answer was negative. He did mentioned standard windows driver, but I'm not sure how to make it work. I should probably delete Naim driver and just install some USB audio driver. Any idea about that option?
i3 Haswell, PPAStudio USB3 card and USB Micro cable/Chord Hugo/Nad-275BEE/Harbeth-30.1