by captainkremmen » 22 May 2016, 14:44
Hi Frank
I thought I would briefly feedback on the C2/Runeaudio combination.
Have tried combinations:
Sources: USB SSD/Synology NAS
Power: LPS to C2 feeding USB DACs, plus also tried separate power to DACs
DACS: little i2s 5102A board; Douk Audio XMOS 384K/32bit DSD/PCM USB DAC; Musical Fidelity M1 Clic as USB DAC
Overall the operation is smooth and quick. The menus\library work fine. No crashes.
The problems for DSD are:
- DSD native is just white noise for Douk [presumably not compatible, as per previous posts]
- DoP is ok with Douk, but sound actually not great in my view.
- if no DSD activated, on the fly play of dff files ok but occasional pops etc.
Also, on very careful listening of FLAC 24/96 there is also pop occasional crackle at very consistent points in the track [I mainly used George Ezra. "did you hear the rain" as there is a lot of silence for comparing above combinations]. This seems to be down to the C2 as a source, rather than any DAC. The same track\source played via the Clic as a music server is fine. I think it was ok with my RPi b+ running different player as well.
Not expecting any kind of comment/advice. It was all a bit of an experiment really. Just feeding back.
Thanks for you hard work.
Simon