What happened in the chain? [Answered]

When playing this morning, I saw a strange thing had happened with reduction in quality of the sound.

I have the file in Lossless quality on my Mac mini, which is also where my Roon server is.

I was playing on my PC over a small Musical Fidelity DAC on the USB drive. Normally this will give me Lossless playback, but here I got an extra ring in the chain, reducing the sample rate.

Hi Kim,

Musical Fidelity make quite a few DAC’s, which model/version are you using?

Can you check its specification to find out what the highest sample rate it supports over USB?
Looking at the MF site I can see that some of their DAC’s support up to 192kHz, whilst others are only 96kHz.

For example:

1 Like

Hi Carl

Oh yes, I had Roon for a few days only, so this must be the first time I play a 192 kHz song over the laptop with my Musical Fidelity V90-HPA, which is a DAC and head phone amplifier - and that is 24-bit/96 kHz only.

I have played the same music directly from the Mac Mini, but that is connected to my HiFi system - NuPrime DAC9/STA9 and that is another matter.

Thanks for the explation!

Thanks for confirming, hope all is clear now.
Regards,
Carl

Closed due to inactivity. If you are still seeing this issue, please open a new support thread.