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A review of the Onkyo is in the latest issue of WHF. 5 Star product.

But reading the review I would expect the Wadia to be the better product - as you would expect given the price.

(Personally I will probably get the Onkyo dock soon and will be able to report more once I have one)

Hi chaps,

To be honest, the Onkyo offers a performance that's broadly comparable to the Wadia (remember, that Wadia's been out a long while now) for £200 less. If it was me, I'd take the Onkyo, buy a very decent optical cable, and spend the change on CDs for ripping into Lossless!

Thanks for the info Tom.

Certainly makes me feel even better about gettin the Onkyo 

It must do with only digital outputs.......

if you can wait a few days will add my opinion - already have the wadia and going to order one of these tomorrow for my bedroom system - will be going through the dac in mt solo movie

can't decide on colour - my ipods silver but the solo if an off black and have thought about swapping for a unity as don't really utilse the home cinema function except for odd dvd but have a ps3 in there which is again black!!!

Can anyone help me with a technical query?

In order for the Onkyo to work with a DAC, does the DAC have to be able to convert the audio format on the Ipod (eg Mp3) itself, or does the Ipod decompress the file and stream as PCM.

I say this because i have no idea whether my DAC (an MF X-DAC V3) can read MP3 or AAC

Your MF DAC can read any type of music file as it is actually reading the digital signal from your source, not the file type.

The Onkyo is taking a digital signal from the music files in the ipod's hard drive in the same way a DAC takes a digital signal off a PC and the hard drive where the music file is stored.

I see (I think), so the digital signal output from the coax or optical output is the same irrespective of source file type.

Is this the same in HDMI? I understand that there is a distinction between outputting PCM and bitstreaming TruHD (or DSD for that matter) which suggests to me that there must be a a need to decode a "file type"  (strictly a stream type I suppose) downstream.

matengawhat:

my dealer hasn't got the Onkyo in yet - should be this week 

just had a call to say mine is on its way - will be with me on monday!!!