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 konNET-o and konNET-k review from HiFi STATEMENT (Germany).

A rave review of the konNET-k switch.

Some user ask, "Should I turn off the konNET network switch when not in use?"  Our short answer is NO (whenever possible).   The #konNET series are clocked by an OCXO (oven controlled crystal oscillator) which has a heater (oven) inside to keep the crystal's specified working temperature. It takes time for both the temperature and crystal to reach a stable condition. You may also wonder if we keep the clock running, what about aging problem of the crystal? If you start-stop (on-off) the crystal too much, it will age even quicker. 

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we are now moving to a new workshop and some photos here might disappear for a while. stay tuned and they will be back soon.

both system running linux and mpd .   CuBox is ARM based while Alix is using x86 (AMD). which one do you prefer?

another beautifully made DSD dac (Norway). output caps changed to Auricap and result is positive, "Just replaced the output caps. Must say, the sound seems to even more pleasant! ... As I write this, I am very impressed!"     btw, the chassis is an eye candy .....  :-)

another USB DSD dac implementation (Japan). separated power supply for digital and analog section. impressive R-core transformer. :-)

we are pleased to announce exD is now official partner with Voyage Linux. the new Voyage MPD 0.9-rc1 is supporting DSD playback using DoP. Format supported: DSDIFF and DSF Max sample rate: DSD128 Voyage MPD

DSD playing using JPlay tested and proved to work with our USB-DSD interface. please note JPlay only support DoP using Kernel Streaming (KS) at the moment, that said, only DSD64 possible. JPlay

a complete USB DSD dac implementation (Korea). using our USB-DSD interface and DSD dac module in a beautiful chassis. a custom heavy duty toroidal transformer and voltage regulator.

DSD playback is now supported (DFF and DSF file format). Linux platform tested and confirmed to work, 1. Debian 2. Ubuntu 3. Voyage 4. VortexBox

exD now supports DoP 1.0 (DSD over PCM) open standard with a new firmware update. major audio player that support DoP includes, Audirvana Plus (Mac OS) Foobar2000 (Windows) JRiver MC17 (Windows) MPD (Linux, coming soon)

the new ASIO output plug-in (Version 2.1.1) is confirmed NOT "bit perfect". we recommend using the previous version (1.2.7) more test to follow.

apart from Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, we can play DSD files using Linux now. we have a custom MPD that supports our own DSD-over-USB standard and streaming DSD file becomes possible.

we are really clever sometimes..... there seems to have an DSD-over-USB standard coming out, finally, DSD-over-USB standard we will update our firmware to support this forthcoming "DSD-over-USB standard" plus our own "standard" as well. stay tuned.

a super heavy duty implementation. :-) the chassis body is machined (CNC) from solid aluminium block. absolutely an eye candy ....... integrated power supply and sample rate display Coax output AES/EBU balanced output I2S output

another player that support native DSD streaming using ASIO, HQPlayer . exD is now supporting HQPlayer to stream native DSD . DSD files in DSDIFF and DSF format supported. DSD64 (2.8224MHz) and DSD128 (5.6448MHz) supported too. HQPlayer not only run on Windows but Linux as well. again, you can try HQPlayer before you buy. Download a copy here, Signalyst

another installation together with the BIII dac. audio playback through USB, it's switchable between PCM and DSD. everything is housed in a heavy duty (and good looking) aluminium chassis. more photos Here , in Norwegian.