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[mojave]

AXPONA 2013 was an audio show in Chicago this past weekend. I just read on enjoythemusic.com that one of the rooms had JRiver playing with 3 Mytek Stereo 192-DSD DACs for playback of ripped multi-channel SACD's.

http://enjoythemusic.com/axpona_2013/friday/

MYTEK is touting being the first company to handle multi-channel SACD from USB files ($4800)! Here's the deal on how they do it. First you get three of their two-channel units plus of course a computer for file storage and control. Then users simply launch JRiver software and BAM, you have multi-channel SACD in audiophile sound quality.

[eddyshere]

Why 3 myteks ? you can do it with 1 Exasound e-18 (agreed on the fly conversion to high-res/DXD PCM) and even "unofficially" native DSD at least 2-channels...works superbly !

[mojave]

Why 3 myteks ? you can do it with 1 Exasound e-18 (agreed on the fly conversion to high-res/DXD PCM) or even "unofficially" native at least 2-channels...works superbly !

You answered your own question. Since the Mytek decodes DSD, some don't want conversion to PCM.

[eddyshere]

agreed...wasn't very explicit...I do not find it correct to say first company to handle multi-channel SACD from USB files. I would agree if it would have been achieved with one DAC and not with three..

[6233638]

Is it true that the Myteks have a fan in them, or was that just older models? I have been thinking about purchasing a new DAC recently, and was leaning towards the Benchmark DAC2, but the Myteks were on the list of DACs I was considering.

But Mytek's ability to sync up the clocks and act as a single multichannel device is tempting - even if I am probably unlikely to actually buy another two DACs, it's a nice thing to have.

[Matt]

Is it true that the Myteks have a fan in them,

I don't believe there are any moving parts.

The DAC does get warm while it's on, but it's nothing out of the ordinary.

[john925]

I've already got two myteks, but still waiting for their next firmware and usb driver release, which would enable multi channel dsd playback.