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As much as I'd love an HDMI output, I'd love a 4-channel discrete input for those of us with Q8s and quad R2Rs!
Multiple sets of discrete inputs would be great!As much as I'd love an HDMI output, I'd love a 4-channel discrete input for those of us with Q8s and quad R2Rs!
Still coming, waiting on the assembled PCB 's to arriveWhere is the SM V3? Is it still coming?
Minor power supply improvements? Like a bigger wall wart? What would really be cool would be a matching old school linear power supply in the same size box, and a 19" rack mount kit for the pair.So now.... the SM v3 is just like the v2 except with minor PS improvement & optical SPDIF input? Sounds more like SM v 2.5.
Will future versions include proper Synth or Hall modes for stereo decoding?
Thats more what will happen on the super pre amp not the SM3. I am desperately trying to keep the price down (there will be a significant price increase). The electronics industry has gone totally nuts with component shortages everywhere due to factory lockouts in China due to Covid 19. Even common old garden chips have vanished till next April, and prices in some instances have tripled.As much as I'd love an HDMI output, I'd love a 4-channel discrete input for those of us with Q8s and quad R2Rs!
Again I really want to keep the SM 3 and that series as set and forget as possible. Digital inputs such as HDMI really cause issues as they change the revision every few years and they are not always fully compatible and even worse the license costs around $20K plus the expense of the chipset. That is why in our Y4 product we sell it complete with a separate HDMI adapter....kills two birds with one stone.Definitely the Surround Master should have multiple discrete inputs (repeating myself). This seems to be an never-ending problem with modern equipment lacking discrete analogue inputs.
Another feature might be to add the Involve encoder to the unit, or perhaps add as an optional feature. You could include a "tape" output selectable between stereo (SM input) and involve encode (of discrete inputs).
Last but not least a surround (stereo enhance) mode. That mode could be a fixed setting like Sansui or adjustable. I've been mulling over ideas in my head about that (so many possibilities) Whether to make it fully adjustable from L-R (R-L) to mono, or to limit the maximum blend to .414 or maybe .5, it would adjust between surround, QS (Involve) and Hall mode. A centre detent pot could be used to indicate neutral (Involve) setting. Or just use out of phase blending to create surround mode then SQ could be used as a faux hall mode if desired.
We've had quotes with 52 weeks leadtime for some semiconductors!Thats more what will happen on the super pre amp not the SM3. I am desperately trying to keep the price down (there will be a significant price increase). The electronics industry has gone totally nuts with component shortages everywhere due to factory lockouts in China due to Covid 19. Even common old garden chips have vanished till next April, and prices in some instances have tripled.
We've had quotes with 52 weeks leadtime for some semiconductors!
Yep, we warned production to get the orders in early due to the predicted shortages, they didn't! There also seems to be a lot of component obsolescence being brought forward as well, we are getting lots of emails to us from production saying what can we use instead of X, Y & Z in your design!I work for a company that has quoted that kind of leadtime. Customers cancelled orders at the start of covid, the silicon foundries went idle, and then customers came back 3 to 6 months later and asked if they could have all the chips they cancelled immediately plus more as additional orders. The answer is NO. It's not all the fault of the silicon foundries, they were idle at the start of covid because customers (making products) panicked and cancelled. Then they found end users were ordering more products not less (apart from cars).
Hello Chucky!
We know that I have been waiting it out on the sidelines AND I intend to get a unit one of these days.
I check these threads regularly but if you have explained this may it have escaped me.
Why is V3 still 48/24 , couldn't you just wave your magic wand and make it 96/24?
Cheers from postapocalyptic NOLA
The DSP has an audio sample of 24 bit not 12 but uses a 48 bit word length floating point sampling , using 28 bit maths coefficients with a 76 bit accumulator. Also uses sigma - delta modulators with 256 times oversampling. Last time I checked 24 bit is 1 part in 16.7 million. Better than my clapped out ears!
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