Is the USB input on your DAC your favorite or at least competitive with the DAC's other inputs, and do your want to pay for the convenience of being able to choose the best one?Ī relatively cheap way to add fiber and then an Ethernet streamer that supports multiple interfaces is to add a Startech MCM1110MMLC I've actually sold my EtherRegen and switched to this along with a relatively cheap power supply for it and if I could hear the difference in my system between this and the EtherRegen it was small and I've been very happy with this feeding my M5. The songkok or peci or kopiah is a cap widely worn in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines, and southern Thailand, most commonly among Muslim males. Value wise the opticalRendu seemed very good based on my results being the EtherRegen/M5 combo is significantly more. SongKong tries to decipher the composer and store it in the. Up till today a lot of databases including MusicBrainz store the composer in the Artist Tag. It also claims to understand classical music.
It not only uses meta data for the lookup but supports acoustic fingerprinting as well. I thought the opticalRendu was competitive with the USB output of the M5, but in the end sold it since for me it didn't match what I already had with SPDIF. This server gets its data from the MusicBrainz and Discogs. Special attention has also been paid to Classical music - with SongKong capturing information such as composer, conductor, perfomreers and even Movement numbers where. AudioShark - The Best High End Audio Discussion forum. I use the SPDIF output on the M5 to my DAC and prefer the sound quality of that interface over the USB output of the M5 and the opticalRendu (relative to my DAC only though.). SongKong is a powerful tool designed to make tagging digital music files with metadata (song,album, composer, artist etc) as well as adding album artwork as easy as possible. I've never heard the Melco but I did purchase an opticalRendu just to compare it against my EtherRegen (Fiber input on A, 1.5m CAT8 on B) into my Bricasti M5.