SMSL M7: il dac definitivo alla portata di tutti?

Nadir81 ha scritto:Però la musica si ascolta con le orecchie...voglio dire, è improponibile che un dual AKM alimentato in lineare e con xmos di ultima generazione suoni peggio di una Realtek integrata.

Nadir81 ha scritto: l'M7 suona benissimo con gli ampli cuffia in mio possesso (ho anche un Lake People, che è un signor ampli - produzione Violectric - e ti fa sentire tutte le magagne) ma...distorce in maniera clamorosa con l'ampli Alientek D8.
L'Alientek suona benissimo in Xmos, suona benissimo in coassiale, ma se gli piazzo l'M7 come input RCA e col volume del pre al massimo, va in saturazione e distorce.

djufuk87 ha scritto:Io nel frattempo ho costruito il mio amplificatore per cuffie basato sempre su TPA6120A2 e sto facendo vari test..

Ok lets do this, first of all its small, a bit smaller than the box your cellphone came in. It also has some wight to it, so it feels solid. Looks better than the picture, it is simple, it's not like a most high end DAC's that look like $1,000+ and God forged it. What it does do and dam fantastic too, is sound amazing. I have a Shanling M2 and i was using this as my DAC.

Lets get off the subject a bit so i can try to explain why at first i was not impressed and disappointed with the M7. My Shanling M2 is a Hi-Res player that you can use it as a DAC. Running the Shanling through my Emotiva A-150 amp direct as a player, sounded really good, but as a DAC it was about 80%. So when i did a side by side with the Shanling as a player with the SMSL M7, they sounded very similar. I was expecting the M7 to blow it out of the water. Sadly it did not, needless to say it sounded amazing but not better.

Moving on, this test was with the foobar2000, I also noticed that it would not play DSD with foobar. It did play the file and music came out, but their is a button that lights up blue and it suppose to be violet when playing DSD. Foobar AISO+SAC installed check and check and XMOS drivers double check. SO I went to JRiver media player( I am not sponsoring JRiver) after tweaking and searching BAM! let me say this i have been with my Shanling for about a year and a half so i know how it sounds. so like I said BAM! the sound that came out of the M7 was so obvious. So much better than before, the clean crisp highs the vocals, like butter and the bass was tight and smooth. I did do an A B on them again just to be sure and yes. Many times you have to really focus on the small details to hear the difference between DAC's but this was obvious.

I tried the same set-up with the Shanling just to make sure it wasn't JRiver making the improvements and it was not, as I wiped the sweat off my brow. It is a bit of a pain to get the settings on the JRiver to work with the M7 but wow worth the pain and the DSD worked, the blue light turned violet. After doing this, the M7 just impressed me and I am happy with the performance and sound quality, clean highs smooth tight bass and vocals are on point. Everything I was hoping for the M7 to be, the M7 brought it and dropped the mic.

To bring this to an end I am happy and relieved that the M7 did not disappoint, It was even better than i was hoping for. the only thing that i did not get and it is difficult to understand is the low pass filter setting. Even without these I would recommend the M7. Also i did contact SMSL for some help, they did a fantastic job. (I'm not promoting SMSL)

pallapippo ha scritto:Ormai è da 4 mesi che ce l'ho.
E la mia soddisfazione è improvvisamente aumentata negli ultimi giorni.
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Ho quindi potuto provare un Audioquest Cinnamon usato: cavo che si colloca in una fascia  superiore rispetto al WW suddetto, visto che costerebbe nuovo attorno ai 75 €.
Anche qui avvertite differenze: stavolta nette, e migliorative sotto tutti gli aspetti   (non mi metto a fare lunghe dissertazioni da audiofigo in proposito).

Questo l'ho tenuto.