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tandrb

Apr 4, 2019

I have this player and I love it. I got mine "on a BIG sale", for "only" $899, I think, about 6 months ago. Oh, well. I just have to remind myself that I've been able to enjoy it for that period of time so I don't resent the fact that I did not know it would show up on Massdrop, for so much less. I connect my Focal Utopia headphones and lose myself in the spectacular sound of this glorious combination. One important point that is that, although the specs only indicate it will work with "up to 200gb micro SD card", I started off with a 256gb micro SD card, which worked fine. I filled that up, however, and swapped it out for a 400gb micro SD card, which also works fine with it. I have a 512gb microSD card in my tablet, but I have not tried it in my Opus #2 simply because I am nowhere near filling the 400gb, yet, in the Opus #2. I have seen threads indicating that you can upload Tidal and/or Qobuz, but I have never tried. In theory, if it can run Tidal, it should work with MQA files, using Tidal, because the Android Tidal app uses software decoding of MQA files, upconverting them to 192k 24-bit prior to sending them to an external DAC. Similarly, it "should" allow downloading and offline playback, but, as I indicated, I have not bothered to do this. MQA is a "lossy" format, so my snobbish nature still prefers uncompressed FLAC. Even if I can't confidently hear the difference. Just "knowing" that it is a "lossy" compression tends to make me analyze what I am hearing, rather than simply enjoying the music. It's purely psychological (a.k.a. "just plain nuts")

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Apr 4, 2019

Holisticdmd

Apr 8, 2019

tandrbWould you be kind enough to share which brand and type card you use or would use for a 400 or 500 Gb card. I understand all cards are not equal. Thanks

Apr 8, 2019

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tandrb

Apr 8, 2019

HolisticdmdThe 400gb is a Sandisk Ultra and the 512gb is a Samsung Evo. Both work well. I bought the 400gb before the 512 was available or I would have bought two 512gb cards, but just for the extra capacity, not because of the brand difference. Sandisk is releasing a 1tb microSD card, but it will cost about 4X as much as the current 512gb card, but that price will probably drop pretty fast, too. I remember paying about $250 for a 48 megabyte (yes, I meant megabyte) CF card for my first digital camera, in mid-1999. That would only hold about 7 JPG pictures from my current full-frame digital mirrorless camera, or one short 196kbps, 24-bit FLAC song. That 512gb card holds 10,666 times as much data and for less than 1/2 the price of my first CF card. That's why I'm in no hurry to get the 1tb card, when it first comes out. I still have about 1/3 of the space left on my 400gb card, too. The cards seem to get bigger, and cheaper, faster than my music collection grows!

Apr 8, 2019

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Holisticdmd

Apr 20, 2019

tandrbThanks, i appreciate the information. Saves me some angst/

Apr 20, 2019

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ElectronicVices

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May 14, 2019

tandrbA clarification on MQA... the MQA file has a maximum of 192kHz/24 bit encoding. If you have no MQA decoding support it will be decoded as "CD-Quality" like their Hifi Tier. Software decoding for MQA (Desktop, Android & iOS apps supported now) can grant you access up to the 96kHz layer of the MQA file. If the device supports full hardware decoding you will get the 192kHz/24 bit layer "unpacked". There is no upconversion in this process, the MQA layers below full hardware decoding are a "lesser" variety of the native encoding from the source file.

May 14, 2019

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