Minimserver mybook live4/1/2023 My comments were not to criticize anyone's purchase of this product. It was certainly the best streaming DAC device going for the old retail price of $699, let alone that ridiculous street price it had dropped to of $450 or less just before Christmas! If you do get a chance to listen to one, you certainly shouldn't be disappointed with its sound quality. I believe your real issue, at least in the US, is that it's not easily available anymore. The N-50 is a decent device, is here now and mature enough to have had most of its original problems sorted out. For example, it shares the same DAC & mass storage USB input hardware as the PD-50 CD player, which is able to read DSD files from the USB input. I agree the device is no spring chicken, but there's still some mileage left in it I believe, if Pioneer decides to carry on improving it with firmware updates. Lack of enough knowledge and/or decent computer hardware/software could easily account for the discrepancy. It certainly requires a lot more effort to set up a computer, with attached DAC, for music playback with decent sound quality, than it does to network stream or plug in a USB stick. I certainly can't tell the difference on my N-50 & choose to stream via UPnP/DLNA for the covenience. If anything the earlier comments stated that the DAC inputs were the best in terms of sound quality, especially praising the async USB DAC input! The later ones mention no noticeable sound quality differences between DAC inputs, UPnP/DLNA streaming, AirPlay and storage USB input. Similarly the 176.4 kHz sample rate is supported on the coax & optical DAC inputs.Ĭertainly no review or posts I've ever seen outside this forum and no posts in this forum, apart from a couple of comments, have mentioned any problems with the N-50's sound quality via its DAC inputs. So that means that 176.4 kHz FLAC & WAV files are supported by the N-50 on the (front) mass storage USB input, as well as via UPnP/DLNA network streaming. It only applies to the (rear) asynchronous USB DAC input and not to anything else. I thought it best to qualify that lack of 176.4 kHz support you mentioned. Originally Posted by Cebolla /t/1391047/official-pioneer-n-50-network-audio-player-thread/270#post_24244769
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