Qutest, Hugo TT2, Mscaler

All my Hi-Fi gear (7 units) is connected to individual 15amp (round-pin) sockets wired back to their own consumer board vis 10mm wiring, and then via a Henley block to the mains. So none of it is infected (as far as possible!) by other dubious mains devices.

I did start off with the Mscaler on the main house circuit, but when I switched it over to the big boy’s circuit there was no difference. Not a jot.

Not all SMPS are bad.

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could you let me know which battery pack you ordered for the mscaler

thx

I’ve just ordered a (Link) XT Power 20000mha

From my reviews of different products, this one offers 12v @ 4a max which is the closest I’ve found. It also offers 15v @3a max.

A lot of the of the 12-15v power banks have a 2a max which seems a little low when the power cord that comes with the M Scaler has 15v @4a. Some have been using power banks at 1.5a-2a but decided to stick to one that is as near as admit the same as the supplied power supply.

It has a reasonably fast recharge and should provide approx 15hrs or more use. I’ve got one turning up Tuesday and will compare the usb side of things to the Anker 20100 which has been excellent with the Qutest. That will just leave me waiting on the M Scaler to test it out on that.

If it works as well on the Qutest, I have no reason to doubt it won’t be good with the M Scaler and should help isolate it and the DAC from mains power RF.

Interesting, hopefully it won’t be too long before I can experiment myself!

is this the one you mean ?

XTPower® XT-20000QC3 Power Bank - modern DC/USB QC3 battery with 20100mAh - USB, QC 3.0 and DC connection of 12V, 15V, 16.5V, 19V, 20V and 24V 65W max.

thx

Yeah, that’s the one I’ve ordered. I’ve seen some buying 12v DC adapters for normal 5v power banks but I’d rather buy a specific DC power bank… feels a little safer!

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Is that the reason for benefit, I wonder?

Isolating the MScaler completely from any route to ground (and doing the same with rendering source) is way of stopping ground plane modulation, a known benefit in feeding DACs: and a battery supply can do that simply, whereas I gather even the best efforts via power supplies cannot completely prevent it.

i read it on head-fi in the MSCALER thread was suggestion some of them were using and had been also mentioned by rob watts also i believe (is a crazy long thread am still chugging through it…)

goes onto others using LPS supplies to good effect and the WAVE STORM Reference Dual data cables with 20 odd ferrites on them also features heavily or some even sticking ferrites on their expensive CHORD cables, interesting reading that the Blu Mk.2 its seen as a significant flaw in that no galvanic isolation on its BNC outs where as the much cheaper by comparison MSCALER has galvanic isolation on its BNC outs

does reaffirm my view that they must be looking to update the Blu Mk.2 as just doesn’t make sense from a product point of view when the MSCALER has undercut it so and without that same flaw

The Blu 2 of course is primarily a CD player transport, so it is not in comoetition with MScaler. I guess whether ther chose to improve it further may well depend on what they see as future CD sales.

Hi Toon,

Which power bank?

M

—Should have carried on reading :wink:

Hi, it’s the XTPower® XT-20000QC3…, click on "XT Power 20000mha " in the quote below to take you there. Hopefully I should have a hold of one by tomorrow or Tuesday.

I’ll look forward to your thoughts.

Currently running in the Qutest.

M

@MrUnderhill haha

Have you or anyone else tried or played around with the resampling built into the Auralic Aries G1?

I’ve setup HQPlayer and I’ll be testing it, the Aries G1 resampler and the M Scaler once it arrives to see how they compare but it would be interesting to hear from anyone who may have used the Aries G1 resampling.

How you finding it so far?

I’ll try the new power bank on the Qutest first to see if it has the same performance as the Anker 20100 power bank.

That’ll be a loooong post. Just coming on song, after a bit of system tuning.

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true is a CD player it is more me hoping a CHORAL MSCALER comes out

Unfortunately, I’ve only got a bog standard USB cable but I guess it will still be worth a comparison. I’ll test them at 192 on the optical as well.

Not done recently but I have played with resampling via HQPlayer and Minimserver, amongst others. I haven’t enjoyed the results. It has removed edge but also removed dynamics. Be interested in your thoughts.

I am not using Aurelic. They demand Apple and that to me is but a finger of the claw of Sauron. I am using the Meridian 210 which streams at a maximum of 9624, but downsamples higher rates to this.

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Funny you say that but when I was streaming one track it felt detailed but flatter… lost some of it’s depth, vibrancy. It was at that point I had a play with the Aries G1 sampling. This had more vibrancy, depth but not as much detail. I still prefer bit perfect straight into Qutest via optical.

I’ll play around to get the best out of both and then… hopefully, compare to the M Scaler.

Which filter settings did you use in HQPlayer?

Cheers! :slightly_smiling_face:

I used sinc-m with LNS15. From what I’d read, they’re closest to an m-scaler… although, I cannot confirm or deny at this point :grin:

The main problem I have with HQplayer, is I don’t think I can combine it with the Aries G1… unless I can send the usb feed from my MacBook Pro into the USB HDD socket on the Aries.

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