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Re: iFi nano iDSD

Subject: Re: iFi nano iDSD
From: "Gianni Pavan" gpavan1960
Date: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:44 pm ((PST))
Hi, I have nano IFI DSD mainly connected to a MacBookPro 17" with 2TD SSD
inside. I use it mostly with headphones (Beyerdinamic DT770 or Senneheiser
QC25), occasionally I connect two amplified speakers M-Audio M3-8. With HD
files (classical music), including DSD, it works perfectly, with great
detailed sound. With rock and the speakers is impressive, however I never
made comparison with other high level DAC.

Gianni

2016-02-11 21:02 GMT+01:00  [naturerecordists] <
>:

>
>
> Hi Jason,
> Thanks for your reply. Since starting the thread I've now purchased one o=
f
> these little beauties. The reason I originally wanted an opinion on this
> unit was because I intended to do away with my tower computer. This would
> mean me losing my Asus Xonar Essence STX soundcard, which would be a larg=
e
> loss. I used it with my six year old Alesis M1 520 active near field
> monitor speakers (the mk 1 version). My tower would be replaced by my Del=
l
> Latitude E6440 laptop, which has an i7 processor with 16gb of memory and =
an
> SSD. This is more than adequate for most of my tasks. I've bought a dock
> for it which will sit on my workstation with monitor, keyboard, mouse and
> hard disk caddy permanently attached, so that I can use it instantly as a
> primary computer or, by pressing two release buttons take it away and use
> as a laptop.
> Back to the iFi. So far I've not tried it purely as a soundcard with my
> speakers, but I have tried it with my Sennheiser headphones and a CD of
> Nicola Benedetti playing violin. All I could say was WOW! I'd read
> somewhere that the headphone output wasn't that brilliant, but to my tire=
d
> old ears what I heard was just superb. The clarity of high frequency note=
s
> was nothing short of amazing. As soon as I have tried it with my speakers
> I'll report back. At the moment chaos is reigning all through the house,
> with new carpeting and other work about to be done not only in my 'studio=
'
> but elsewhere throughout the house. Timing all this with the delivery of
> new lounge furniture etc is making wonder why I agreed to it all!!
> Have you tried yours through speakers Jason?
> Max
>
>



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