Yes, unless I’m going to be away for a while. My main set up is also my TV set up, so there’s never a day where it’s not used unless I’m away from home or something. My amp is AB… I would not be leaving a class A amp on all the time

It’s something I tweak every now and then. Realistically, it’s my chair moving though.

Not sure why there would be any difference. Qobuz-dl downloads the flac right from qobuz, it doesn’t transcode it or record it or anything like that.

I use qobuz-dl and have never had an issue with it.

I am very much looking forward to my primary source of digital music supporting DSD in the near future. SACD rips are my preferred high-res releases, but the conversion to PCM isn’t truly lossless. I am looking forward to being able to get these releases in native DSD format, and my DAC natively plays DSD too.

I’ve messed around with oversampling to DSD with HQPlayer, but overall I prefer PCM played back on my NOS DAC. That’s really the only experience with DSD I’ve at at this point other than a single test track I downloaded for free to test native DSD playback on picoreplayer. It did sound really good though, but that’s always going to be more about the recording / mastering than the format.

lol paying a premium? They’re pretty much the cheapest hifi brand around…

“a vinyl”

oh lawd…