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PGGB•IT! Azure Integration for (Legal) High Power Upsampling

The upcoming (March) release of PGGB•IT! adds version-wide support for offloading PGGB processing to Azure compute instances. This lets you leverag...

OPTO-DX Customer adds SRC-DX to M-Scaler BNC Input

Thanks to Daniel G., USA for his Testimonial My journey with AudioWise has been an exercise in discovering additional depth and layers of sou...

Consider the Astell & Kern SP3000M for your SecondaryPrimary Sound System

Many audiophiles have multiple sound systems, each in its own listening space. The primary system is for critical listening, typically loudspeaker-...

2026 — The Year DSD2048 Finally Drops!

With the recent launch of the Gustard U26 DDC, playback of DSD2048 is now possible to high quality DACs. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, ...

Why DSD-to-Analog Playback Can Provide the Best Sound

Digital audio production uses PCM for unsurpassed quality and flexibility for recording and editing. 32-bit floating point PCM at 192kHz sampling o...

DSD vs PCM vs Cyan2 vs Mojo2

For several years, now, I have been presenting at trade shows using Chord product and PCM content. I've been a Chord fanboy since before Dave was l...

OPTO•DX Testimonial : Building a MScaler/TT2 Endgame

OPTO•DX was launched in 2019 just as the MScaler was beginning to grow in sales. The goal was to optically isolate the Dave DAC from upstream ...

Can Grok/ChatGPT help us get smarter about Audio?

With the advent of AI engines such as Grok or ChatGPT, LLMs (large language models) are well trained on all human knowledge, including about audio,...

A Commentary on our Ear/Brain Sensitivity

Here are a few news stories that recently crossed my desk...all related to how the industry is acknowledging and addressing the incredible resolvin...

A Testimonial for PGGB•IT! PLUS

Thanks to Michael M., USA I'm using a Gustard R26 DAC with an Aurender N100H., which is too low powered to be practical for real-time use with HQPl...

PGGB+TS for Analog Tape Recording

Reel-to-reel 1/4" analog tape remains a niche format cherished by nostalgic audiophiles. Although tape machines have largely been out of production...

PGGB•IT! MAX Now Supports Processing on Azure Virtual Machines

For PGGB•IT! power users who remaster the longest tracks to the highest quality, the issue has always been to accommodate the processing within the...
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