- #Buy cable for meridian explorer dac 1080p#
- #Buy cable for meridian explorer dac drivers#
- #Buy cable for meridian explorer dac Pc#
Its bigger but more expensive brother, the Meridian Director, is designed to be plug into source with optical or coax S/PDIF. The Explorer also contains a line output for use with an external amp. You could chuck it into your laptop's bag each time you travel never having to worry about listening to anything lesser. And as it is designed for laptops (you could also use it on a desktop if your wish), the lightness is actually a positive point. While it is a bit light, and thus felt 'cheap', it actually looked the business. The Meridian Explorer is extremely well made. I noted that during the demo we had with Meridian about a month ago, the Explorer was working perfectly fine with the Macbook Pro, though it did encounter issues when attempting to switch sources. Incidentally, the Macbook was running on OS X 10.6.9, which is higher than the required version 10.6.4. It was frustrating and after 30 minutes of huffing and puffing, we gave up. Unfortunately, the installation on my partner's Macbook Air did not go according to plan despite following the instruction detailed in the user guide. After that simply plug in a headphone into the 3.5mm mini jack socket the Explorer was ready to use. Once I downloaded the necessary drivers, the installation process took a couple of minutes.
#Buy cable for meridian explorer dac drivers#
No drivers is included as installation but you can find them at Meridian's support website. Along with the USB DAC itself, you will also find a short mini USB cable, a small case and an instruction manual. The Explorer is shipped in a simple black box.
#Buy cable for meridian explorer dac 1080p#
This isn't quite the same as buying audio files encoded in native 24/192, and is similar to buying a Blu-Ray player that is capable of up sampling a 1080p source for playback onto a 4K monitor. The Meridian Explorer on the other hand is designed to take these 16/44 files and resample them. You can find albums encoded in 24/192, but these are rare and expensive. The second thing the Explorer does is up sample the audio file.Ī CD and MP3 file typically contains audio tracks in 16-bit resolution and 44.1kHz sampling, which is adequate for majority of music listeners. This by itself will almost always make a difference for the better. It is designed first to bypass a typical PC's soundcard (which are normall inadequate), routing the digital file through the USB onto the Explorer's on board Texas Instrument DAC. The Explorer in intended to do two things.
#Buy cable for meridian explorer dac Pc#
Long gone when you need a PC size amp and book shelf speaker in order to enjoy good audio quality. It is a growing segment of the audio market. The pocket size USB DAC is designed for those who mainly listen to music using computers. The Meridian Explorer is a product aimed at cornering the slightly lower end of the market, and to a different segment of audio lovers.
Their products are on the upper end of the market and, as all their products are designed and manufactured in the UK, therefore comes at a premium. Meridian is a Cambridge based audio company known in the audiophile circle as a good trusted brand when it comes to sound quality.
0 kommentar(er)
