Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 Las Vegas, brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Hello everyone, welcome to our exclusive coverage here at SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE of HP Discover 2016. This is theCUBE's SiliconANGLE Media's flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. We'll do 100 events this year. I'm John Furrier, my co-host, Dave Vellante, also the co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media with myself. This is our sixth year covering HP Discover and a variety of other events. We'll be here for three days of wall-to-wall coverage, top executives, customers, practitioners, people implementing the cloud, people implementing IoT. And we're expecting to see HP really put out their plan for going past the turnaround. And of course, Meg Whitman would not be doing her thing if she didn't spin out a business unit, Dave. So Dave Vellante and I kick off day one. Watch the kick-offs, watch the wrap-up, that's where we kind of pull it all together. Dave, what do you expect to see here today? Obviously, HP Discover, there's nowhere to hide. They did the split, that's well behind and we covered that at HP Discover London. We're seeing HP now putting out, really, this is their card. Their enterprise group is now cohesive. They've spun out the outsourcing consulting group, the services group with a joint venture, if you will, joint spin-in, spin-out, whatever you want to call it. With CSC, which is essentially taking all that old outsourcing stuff, putting it out there, but they will retain their technical services organization, of which we'll talk to the leader, Scott Weller, today, to find out what the scoop is. But the bottom line is, HP E, HP Enterprise, is really, has to put it out there. And people are talking about HP not doing well. That's been the narrative over the years. The last show we were at, we saw them with a spring in their step. What do you expect to see from HP this week? To make them show the straight and narrow, show the growth? Well, John, Meg Whitman is entering her fifth year of what she proclaimed would be a five-year turnaround. And so now it really is time for the performance. And I've been saying for how long, you know, in theCUBE, this company has to shrink to grow. And it's exactly what's been happening. Not only did the company split apart, now it's a $52 billion entity. It's getting even smaller with the CSC spin-out, spin-co, whatever you want to call it, that you mentioned. That's about a $20 billion revenue nut that's going to spin out into this merged or joint venture between CSC and HP. So HP essentially, John, is going to be a $32 billion company. Now they grew about 5% in constant currency terms. We're starting to see some quasi-consistent growth across the company. Now the challenge, of course, and the upside is that the market cap trades at about 60 cents on the dollar, right? So you would think a company like HP could trade at least one to two X revenue. So there's a lot of upside for HP shareholders and its customers. It's been investing more in R&D and it's just getting more focused. The last thing I'll note is that old HP, you know, I've been saying two things. It's got to shrink to grow and it's got to get back to its roots, which are invent. And I think it's really now in a position to do that with a combination of organic R&D and with the $12 billion in cash, it's got in the bank, it can start making some acquisitions. Yeah, HP's made their bones on quality products over the years and that invention, that innovation strategy. And they've been talking about the machine. We'll hopefully hear much about that. We've heard an announcement yesterday that they're involved in Star Trek, kind of putting out the future. Again, that's the way in the future with Star Trek. And I said on theCUBE years ago that everything on Star Trek will be invented some day. We're almost there with the holodecks and everything else on all the virtual reality. But the reality, Dave, is that HP's got some assets. Their channel is strong. They've always had a good channel of distribution. They've always had good products, but now that the box mover kind of company that they were once were has to move into solutions. And I'm looking for HP this week to see if they have that kind of messaging and the product to back it up. That means not just product or speeds and feeds, the solutions. And finally, they have the services. They always had a good services organization. And I know they're spinning out the outsourcing, but can they bring IT into a modern era, the new style of IT, as they call it, to bring in the hybrid cloud? Can they deliver cloud? Now, HP stumbled with the cloud over the years and that's well documented. But the one thing that might give them some lift, some wind in their sails, so to speak, is the trend of IoT. This really tips the scales in favor of HP, in my opinion, if they can get that right. If HP has a false start on IoT, that could be really troubling for HP. So I'm looking for the solution mix, the leverage of the channels and how they will adopt to the new channel, services model from the top system integrators down to the VARs and Vabs and the normal resellers. And then finally, what is the IoT play and how does the cloud integration game play into that? If they can lay that out, I would think that they're on the right track. So I'm looking forward to see what they have in those fronts. Well, I think your point about the channel is very important. And of course, with the Dell EMC merger now, you know that HPE is going after a lot of the channel partners of Dell, but EMC in particular. You know, EMC's got some really strong solutions providers and that's your point about shifting from box selling to solution selling is right on. And I think, you know, HP, so if you think about IBM, IBM's got its Watson, its whole cognitive thing. I think IoT is definitely a lure for the channel for HP. Now, of course, HP's got to compete with Dell and EMC on great products. Okay, fine. So streamline a product portfolio, do great and converged infrastructure, all flash server leadership, you know, software maybe needs a little work within the talk to Robert Young-John's about that. But an interesting hook for HP is IoT. It's the future. It's the big wave.  You've been digging into it. You've gone deep with Dr. Tom Bradovich who's coming on a little later. Talk about IoT and the importance as a lever to HP. Well, a couple of different things going on with HP. Listen, I'm going to go back in history to talk about it, talk about the present. The only reason why HP's not in the graveyard are the many computer companies like DG, Data General, DEC, and others in Wang. Wang, Apollo. Is that they had a culture of innovation. They had skunkworks. They had things going on in the labs. But it was the laser jet that saved the company and that was really an attached peripheral to the Wang word processing days. But that was riding the wave of the personal computer generation. And what happened with the laser jet was that spawned a computer products kind of vision and huge revenue growth. Multiple stocks plus in the late 80s through the 90s got them into the wind tail business. And from there it was history. They went from eight billion to like 36 billion in like five years. Massive growth and they took advantage of that wave. Now going forward today, the wave that they missed in my opinion was cloud. They really missed the cloud. They got hung onto the box thing. And now they saw that with Meg Whitman coming in. You can see them kind of make some decisions saying, look, we're not going to be a public cloud. We're going to bet on hybrid. We're going to bet on integrated services kind of multi-cloud. And then they kind of like, we'll wedge a position in there. The new laser jet like moment for HP today to capture growth is IoT. IoT has two aspects. It's an application and it's also attaching to the cloud if you will. So for the HP to get back in to the cloud, like I said earlier, the wind in the sails for this new lift will be IoT because you have IoT apps, you have IoT devices and you have IoT networks. HP actually has leadership in those siloed categories. You look at Gartner's siloed magic quadrant analysis, but to bring that up horizontally and tie that together and integrate them together is a huge opportunity for HP. It'll lift the services organizations on technical services. It'll bring in the product sales, Intel and others will make a ton of dough on compute and software. And this machine and or IoT will be key. So can they create a new category of IoT? Can they get the growth? That is what I'll be looking for. So the stock is up 24% year to date. It's at a 52 week high. So those are some positive signs. Interestingly, in the last conference call, the Wall Street analysts were pushing Meg. I mean, the old EDS organization had a great quarter. They grew around 7%. So a lot of the people were saying, well, why are you selling it now? It's starting to do really well. It's starting to throw up some cash. I think it was the right move because HP shareholders will be able to participate in whatever growth they have because they're going to own half of that company. And as well, it gives it more focus and it just strips out all the baggage. Now the other piece that Wall Street was pushing on HP because remember they sold some security assets and tipping point, they sold the Trend Micro. The Wall Street analysts were questioning whether or not HP should further diversify or divest itself of software. I think that would be a huge mistake. You're talking about IoT, critical that they're able to leverage the Vertica, the machine learning components, the ability to do analytics at the edge. That is a key component of IoT that I'm going to be looking for and talking to Dr. Tom and others about to see if HP can really, truly bring that end-to-end IoT portfolio together. Dell talks a lot about end-to-end. I think end-to-end IoT from the edge into the core is going to be more important going forward than that full-service supplier. Now granted, it's the supply chain, Michael Dell will get a lot of leverage out of that, but I think in terms of momentum, edge-to-core with IoT is really key. And HP software has to kind of step up the leadership game on this, in my opinion. HP's never been known for their software, but if you look at that integration play, the district of Dell EMC will be the software. So HP has a play there. Oracle is an example of, on the other end of the spectrum of Dell EMC, where they've essentially co-opted HP's messaging. You know, the cloud machine, they're actually calling the product the cloud machine. Actually, we use the word machine. I'm sure Mark Herd and Larry Ellison are having fun with that, but HP has to get this machine from hype to reality and use that as a flagship. At the same time, HP has to integrate. And in the number one trend we're seeing across all of our CUBE events that we've gone to, whether it's SAP Sapphire, all the IBM events, Oracle events, and industry events, is that integration's key into the cloud. I know HP's been late to the game with Docker, but it's still super early. They're not late. They're late on the early adopter side, in my opinion, in terms of like being pioneers. But the fast followers on the rest of the market will follow on fast for DevOps and composable services. That developer community and the channel will be critical from a software enablement standpoint. So if HP can nail that and provide a robust infrastructure, a digital infrastructure with apps at the edge, that will be a killer for me to see. So, now we'll see. We'll see if they're walking the talk. We'll see what the releases are. We saw some announcements here with Healing in Cloud. We saw one view, which we were impressed two years ago when they showed that. We'll see an update on that. They have a release out there today. So three other things I want to point out. You know, all flash data center, that's what the HP storage is going for. You know, it's three part of the gift that keeps on giving. We kind of know that story. The second is converged infrastructure. When have Rick Lewis on converged infrastructures or growth area for HP? HP was one of the first to actually use that term. But in my opinion, HP fell behind in converged infrastructure. Now is sort of playing catch up and leapfrog now. And I think, you know, the third area that we talked about, which is critical, is IoT, but also Aruba. HP's networking business, John, grew 67% last quarter. Even when you take the Aruba acquisition out, it grew 17%. So networking is now cruising. I think Aruba has given it a real tailwind. That is a critical piece to IoT, isn't it? Well, absolutely. The networking piece with Aruba is going to be a nice jewel in the connections of all the different devices. But you mentioned converged infrastructure. I would agree with you that they've kind of lagged behind early on, but that was because the company was kind of in transition. We saw some turnover at the executive level. But with all flash now, that announcement today is pretty important because that kind of highlights what 3PAR was bought for. 3PAR had nothing to do with all flash, but their entire 3PAR value proposition fits beautifully into tiering and all flash. So you got that now kicking in. So converged infrastructure really looks good with HP. If you combine converged infrastructure concepts with wireless and IoT, you have in essence, the opportunity to have a new category of converged IoT infrastructure. Because at the end of the day, that will be a battleground integrated into the data center through hybrid cloud, through public cloud, and obviously wireless is a backhaul. A quick storage aside, the 3PAR had a huge pivot from spinning disk into all flash, didn't miss a beat. Look at NetApp just had to buy SolidFire, IBM had to go out and buy Texas Memory Systems, EMC had to buy ExtremeIO. All these legacy storage companies had to buy, HP didn't, they were able to leverage that asset. So that turned out to be a great acquisition, even though they paid 2.5 billion for it. Well Dave, a thing about HP is that with the spin out, and now they got rid of the outsourcing, which by the way, I thought was actually a good move. I mean that outsourcing game has changed. We talked to the top system integrates from the center, PWC, Deloitte, Capgemini, they're all changing their delivery models because of cloud. They're changing their core competency on how they deliver solutions to their customers. So HP's customer, customer, customer through the SIs and these large partners is significantly changing. So getting rid of that baggage, I don't want to say baggage. I'll see if my- I think it was baggage. I would argue it was pretty quick. A quick aside on inside baseball, Heard bought that because he thought he could replace all IBM mainframes with HP servers. Failed strategy. So good. Well exactly, my point. So that old outsourcing game is gone because the people that were in the outsourcing business, the big SIs are changing their delivery methods. So I think that's a sign, that's why the stock is up with HP. I think Wall Street rewarded Meg for that bold move because basically what she did was she cut down and moved that out. I still think HP's got a lot more cuts to do in talking to people close to the company and internal. There's still a lot of overlap. They still got some work to do, but if they can sharpen their go to market with the new categories like IoT, all flash under the hood and the convergent infrastructure, they could win that. And again, what's going to be really important is the growth in technical services from helping customers put solutions on the table and through the channel, that is going to be ultimately where I would see the dollars coming in. They can make that a seamless operation with the channel, with the cloud, with the software, then I think they'd be in good shape. Yeah, it's all about focus. It's all about, as I say, getting back to the roots, inventing and bringing in organic tuck-ins, proving that you can do M&A and still watching for software improvement. We got to see software improvement at HP. Okay, well, we are kicking off day one of three days of CUBE coverage. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Stay tuned. Of course, we'll be broadcasting the live feeds. There's multiple places to stay in touch with us. The most direct way to watch the live feed and interact with myself and Dave is go to crowdchat.net slash HPE Discover. And there's no spam in there. So if you want to jump in and do some Twitter chats, and if you're from LinkedIn, you can also log in as well as a Facebook user's login. You got to log into chat. Go to siliconangle.tv and click on the HPE Discover or check out our new Crowd Pages product, crowdpages.co slash HPE Discover. We're putting all of our content there. That's a live stream. We'll be there as well as the keynotes. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. Keep watching. We'll be right back. Thanks for watching theCUBE.


it is time for an x-factor choice pack yo what's going on leaf nation, it's leafer back again and welcome back to the channel today we are back with another NHL 23 video and today we are opening up an x-factor choice pack we are hoping for the best let's get right into it all right we completed the hut challenges which i suggest you guys should be doing it's a grind it is a grind but you get a free x-factor player choice pack i'm hoping for mcdavid mckinnon or matthews any of the three would suffice anyone else there's some other good ones but those are the top three that i want obviously all right come on give me mcdavid give me mckinnon give me matthews here we go come on please mathew kachuk it's not bad it could be worse okay mathew kachuk i'll take that we're going number two chats at three two one that's what we're going with please let me see blue mathews all right given that i have her already that isn't great that is not good oh my god i'm gonna cry right now we're going mathew kachuk please please please please please please please dry sidel i will take dry sidel i will take i will take leon i will definitely take leon that's not bad yeah i think we go leon over kachuk any day right we're going leon dry sidel easy peasy team's looking better already kachuk would have been nice but like obviously you go leon dry sidel man especially because he's gonna get a lot of upgrades this year let's be honest with each other so we got dry sidel up to an 85 which is nice we got big rig that's actually huge wingman spark so we got to see what synergy he can use right now that i need doesn't look like anything right now unfortunately uh distributor would be huge when we get that at tier five so we were able to get leon we bought them for just under 39k uh so we got them up to a 37 with that being said it is time to try them out for the first time at an 87 overall all right first game trying out 87 dry sidel we are coming up against a larkin a huberto and a marie filip pulen looks like a decent team it's time for dry sidel to get some spicy goals here we go we need dry sidel to do something for us i'm excited to try them out at an 87 man let's see how he does good poke from dry sidel he feels fast which is nice go kobosu ah nice change that works out let's go cider more cider oh get out of here what a great defensive play should have been up one nothing there get it cider there we go lannis gog up the kobosu back to lannis gog beautiful nice little move over to grizzlik what i say from jake up markstrom we're playing well we're playing well this guy's a good player as well man tie up campé with the puck a little shot rebound maybe no couldn't even get it on that we got the puck low kopey bring it around over across what a save from markstrom dude markstrom's actually like i've come up against him a couple times this year he's been so good against me end of one and it's a pretty even game we've only had one shift with dry sidel that's what sucks about these short games so we might have to debut in a couple games unless he has a very good game in this game obviously but honest to god so far i'm really liking him he's pretty fast for his build he's hard to knock off of the puck so far no complaints from leon good poke from dry sidel good defense lost the puck there not ideal good poke again another great poke time for him to take off over across oh nice try you see what i mean by the speed he was ready to burn players there off the boards over to leon over to connor back to leon good poke there you go with a nice little bump from leon there toe drag into him leon oh my god dude he is so hard to muscle off the puck it's nice good d there to stay with him couldn't get a bump good save carry price that that's a good penalty man he was probably gonna go across and score i'll take it it's fine so kuznetsov there you go nice little move there bring it across kuznetsov what a save from jake up markstrom dude let's go again kuznetsov take off kuznetsov is so fast man over across oh period ended nice try ended to it is still an even game man we just either of us can't score right now all right so it's gonna suck dry sidel is out on the pk so let's see what you can do on the penalty kill 36 seconds left on this penalty kill here let's go leon there you go he's got the puck take us to the net that's a good poke over across to leon nope it's okay leon has it still leon to the net what a save dude very good try what a pass good save bonfire and beautiful leon dry sidel with the puck here he's taken off again over across an adb leon looking to do something with him toe drag shot no that gets poked off get over to marner connor back to marner marner with the shot nice try cal connor with the puck steven stamp coasts good save good poke get their kubosu beautiful grizzlic with the puck now beautiful saucer over stamp coasts that got deflected and markstrom still saves him and jacob markstrom is actually unreal this year 230 left in this period i'm a big fan of leon dry sidel even though not much to show from him marten take it to the net oh my god the net just flew off i did not know that was a thing let's get a hit there bulk with nice get it off there you go copetart adrian kempé nice little move oh nice try oh my god yo okay literally you cannot stick lift this year it's actually crazy do not touch the a button this year because you will get penalized for it it is horrible like actually atrocious copetar oh my god nice way to try to end it over time 00 still an even game no one can score that's the year of nshel 23 so far all right so we got dry sidel for this three on three overtime let's see if he could win it in his debut would be pretty sweet four on three overtime i forgot i took a penalty that's my mistake there you go dry sidel he's got the puck he's a man on a mission over across bone byram what a save dude bone byram to end it oh my god he just got a poke on that good stuff from bone byram we see leon up there nice little move don't know where the puck is and leon dry sidel wins it in overtime in his debut with a dirty move on the backhand oh my goodness shorthanded four on three huge fan of this dry sidel what a game winning goal the boys are absolutely loving it they're celebrating on the road what a game so looking here again the beautiful tow drag from dry sidel backhand finish on jacob markstrom that is the end of the game oh my so dry sidel looking at his stats one goal on three shots he was a plus one obviously only goal in the game i need to watch this go back one more time and i was actually nasty so we're looking at dry sidel we found him bone byram found him off of that defensive play and then dry sidel coming in here to his forehand little tow drag which was a little unnecessary but he came through with it went to the backhand and just absolutely tucked it in for the nasty game winner so honestly guys in a game with leon dry sidel i was pretty impressed man uh honestly no shock here i think he's worth uh getting if you get him in the next factor choice packer you're thinking about buying him i think he's definitely worth getting man for his build for his size he's pretty fast he's hard to knock off the puck pretty good shot uh good passing uh i'm a huge fan of this leon dry sidel card man i highly recommend anyways guys that is going to be it for today's debut video i have another debut video coming up soon and it's a pretty big one as well but if you guys did enjoy this one be sure to drop a like on it if you guys are new around here make sure to subscribe button down to be low we are on the road to five thousand subscribers that is a crazy number to think about we are just under 400 subs there that's that's crazy man i would never think i would be that close to five thousand subscribers but guys like i said that is it for today's video thank you guys very much for watching and i'll talk to you guys later peace


What's the word y'all? Check it so Bleach Report puts together an article of top 10 players that can break out this season. And again, people talking. I am people. Cause I created my own personal top 10 list so it'll be interesting, but a lot of people were upset about it. I need people to realize not for Zach Buckley's case or Bleach Report case, but for the sake of this video, breakout can mean so many different things. Like for example, there are some people on my list that were literally not in the rotation for their team and my breakout for them is a, they're gonna be a quality role player. And then there are some people that I think are gonna break out to all start caliber. So, you know what I'm saying? This is just my own personal list.  Cause let's be real. We can watch as much film as we can, much film as we want. It's almost impossible to correctly pick breakout players because we not working with them in the off season. We can watch every Rico Heinz run video imaginable and still not predict what players are gonna break out. These are just the people that I watched last season that I think can take a next step. Today's video is brought to you by GLD. GLD was founded on the idea that everyone should be able to afford high quality jewelry pieces that deliver confidence and help complete your look. Y'all know me, man. I'm just a normal, regular, dagladoo, but when I got the GLD on, I'm feeling kind of different. GLD has collaborated with the MLB, the NFL, the NBA, Marvel and Call of Duty. If you wanna rock something, support your favorite team, you can do that. If you wanna rock something, support your favorite superhero, you can do that with GLD.  You gotta hit that link in the description. That's GLD.shopgld.com slash Kenny. Thank you to GLD for sponsoring this video. First, let's take a look at Zach Buckley slash Bleach Report's list. The top three make sense. Jalen Green, Tyrese Halliburton and Kay Cunningham are first options on lottery teams. So they're going to get up a lot of shots. They're gonna get up a lot of counting stats. So breaking out for them makes sense. Lauri Market is an interesting one. If there's any time to break out Lauri it's now because there's nobody ahead of you right now. Colisex is probably ahead of you, but not a lot of people ahead of you. He's also going into year number six. So it feels weird to say break out for year number six, but we do have late bloomers named the history. So I guess it's possible. Michael Porter Jr. feels weird because he's already under a max contract. You know what I'm saying? Like he was given a max like a season and a half ago. So his breakout might've already happened, but I can hear you saying, hey, he's coming off those back injuries. Boom. I don't like the trending topics. I'm watching Thursday Night Football as I'm recording this video and Tua just got injured. Prayers up for him for sure. Anthony Simons makes a ton of sense. When Dane was out last season and they traded CJ, he was an absolute stud. Devon Vasell is a very good pick personally. I think a lot of people are assuming that Kelden Johnson is going to be the guy to break out and both of them can too break out, but I really do believe in Devon Vasell a little bit more than Kelden. I said that Kelden is a scrub because again, a lot of people take things out of context. Jayla Smith, 1000% will be on my list. James Wiseman and Lex A. Pokus. I don't know how Pokus here. I'm not no disrespect. Hopefully he does break out for the sake of OKC fans, but it's just weird to have him here and not some of the other people that are on my personal list or that are in the league. So I will not put any dupes here. So like the top three players for sure I would have on my list and number eight and number seven would for sure be on my list if I was doing dupes, but I'm not. I'm also not doing them in any order. So don't be like, oh, Kenny got this guy first and this guy 10. There's no order whatsoever. So let's start off with a guy that it's a bit if you to pick him as a breakout player because what his team did this off season, I don't want to say buried him, but added a lot of people at around his position that might cut into his potential plan time is Davion Mitchell off night, second half of the season slash when Deere Fox went out with his injuries or whatever. He had a lot of games where he looked really good. Obviously the defense is there, but they also brought in Malik Monk. They brought in Kevin Herter and obviously Deere Fox is their best player, their star caliber player. So Davion is not going to have a lot of opportunity to be a starter or to really showcase all the things that he can. But like maybe I'm a year ahead of the breakout, but I do believe that he showed us a lot at the end of last season for me to feel confident enough to say he's going to have a better year than last, but the breakout might, I might be stretching it considering everybody else is playing this position. My next guest RJ Bear. Whenever Bleach Report, the athletic ESPN puts together these articles top players under this age. RJ Bear doesn't even get an honorable mention. Breakout players, RJ Bear never gets an honorable mention. And I understand there's a portion of NBA fans that are turned off by RJ because he isn't efficient. His efficiency numbers are bad. And I'm a guy that was on that island for a pretty decent amount of time, but I have completely changed space, y'all. I do believe that RJ hasn't been given the right tools to be the player that he can be. And I think this off season for the New York Knicks might be the one to put the step in the right direction. Let's be real, RJ Bear is not a shooter. He had the one year where he shot near 40% or around 40% and then we got to the playoffs and the Atlanta Hawks decided to leave that man open. Like make him drive. And that's one thing he's amazing at. There's not a lot of people in the NBA that are better at getting to the rim than RJ Bear. But the real progression in RJ Bear's career is what he does once he gets to the rim. Cause he will get all the defenders there. And instead of looking at option two or option three hitting that corner and swinging that, he's automatically going up. He's automatically going up. And I think that the progression for him is to be able to play make at a higher level to hit those guys. And I think what opens the game up so much more for RJ is what they decide to close their lineups with. If we get a Julius Randall OB Topping lineup. And I think Tom Dibbutto already said that he doesn't love that. Just like today he said that. If he can get that type of spacing because OB Topping can shoot the shot and Julius Rand who knows what we're going to get from Julius Randall RJ Bear game can blossom to a whole new level. So RJ's got to get better at his play making once he gets to the basket and actually finishing when he's there. Next guy on my list is a guy that I think 90% of NBA fans, NBA twitters in love with is Alperin Sengoon. Still don't know if I'm pronouncing your name right. But I'm not going to take Euro basket as the place to like evaluate overall talent. Cause like Laurie marketing went to Euro basket, didn't you? Everybody goes to your dinner shooter was a superstar. You go, you know, it's a whole different game. It's basketball, but the rules are different and everybody knows that. So I'm not looking at the way Sengoon played in Euro basket like, oh, he going to translate that. But boy did he look good. I'm just saying he is one of the more smart bigs in basketball and he's going into year number two. I don't know if he'll ever be at least an average defender. I don't, I don't really know, but he's extremely crafty offensively.  And with him not having to deal with having Christian would on the roster anymore.  I guess Derek favors is there now. It's not, it's not a lot of depth at the overall center position to take minutes away from him. So it should be more than getting 20 minutes per game, which is basically what he got last year. I'm just imagining Tarry Eason cutting down a lane and the behind the back, behind the neck pass from Al Benson going, baby, I'm here for it. This next dude got a total of 600 minutes last season. And I recently did a deep dive and watched nearly all 600 of those minutes. And I might be a year or two early on this breakout, but it's Delano Ben. Now, if you follow me on Twitter, I recently tweeted about him a couple of different times because I'm enamored by his game. It's the Toronto Raptors way. If he's six, seven or above, get him onto the roster and we gon' make things work. And I'm still trying to figure out if I wanna make a video about him. So I won't talk about it too much, but I do really like a lot of the things that I saw. He's fearless and when you get to the open court it's not a lot of people that can stop him. So I think Banton is gonna work his way into the actual rotation. Obviously there's so many talented players over there. He's not about to be over Scotty or Pascal or Fred or Gary Trigini, like he's gonna be like tiff man in the rotation type things. But I think you're gonna see a lot more Banton this season. And I think a lot more people are gonna open their eyes to him being a really solid player in the future. My next guy's Evan Mobley.  But the reason I put Evan Mobley first is not dealing with his on court like counting stat, traditional stats. I'm not thinking about those because I don't think those are gonna be insane. But when I say breakout, I think he's gonna break out to be one of the most important and best defensive players in all the basketball. I mean, he already got all defensive votes last year as a rookie. And I think he's gonna get more adjusted to the game this year is gonna have an amazing defensive season. And I guess the offensive game is gonna look easier now because he's got more options around him. So yeah, give me, give me E-mope and Scotty for all the reasons I've talked about in previous videos. This next guy put on some extra muscle. I saw a media day. And when he played in summer league, same thing I said about Eurobasket, summer league is a whole different monster. You can look great in summer league and not do anything in your NBA career. Trey Murphy, when Trey Murphy was drafted, he was looked at to be this three point specialist. And he showed some of that. And then we got to summer league and his three point shot wasn't falling, but he was doing so much more. Now I'm not anticipating him to come into the season on a team that's already had so many shot creators to be like, Hey, give Trey Murphy an isolation possession, but that three point shot will still be there probably. He can play the Cam Johnson role for the New Orleans Pelicans easily, easily. The next guy is a 40% three point shooting big who's young and his team just made some decisions to open up that backup big position because he's not gonna start. It's Zeke Najee. Zeke Najee has shot near 40% in his two NBA seasons. And after his rookie season, he ended up getting more minutes. I think he's gonna get more minutes than last year. Now I was just watching his career high game against the New York Knicks in the garden. There's still a lot to be desired when it comes to him defensively, like he gets caught and no man's land a ton. He gets like three second violations every once in a while, something that you don't really see in the NBA anymore. But Zeke Najee as an offensive threat, his three point shooting with Yolkens being there and them having a full complete roster. I do believe that Zeke Najee can play a big role on that second unit for the Denver Nuggets, which is something they did not have last year. The second unit was not very good. When Yolkens wasn't on the court, nobody was hooping. And now I think Zeke Najee can really help that. Next one, I flipped the coin, ladies and gentlemen. I flipped the coin on the Warriors, two young guys, because they already did James Wiseman in the Bleach Report one. Moses Moody and Jonathan Camiga. And I feel more confident in Moses Moody's game, but I think the way that the Warriors play, Jonathan Camiga might become more important. But I do believe the shot making ability and shot creation that Moses Moody possesses is gonna be important and gonna surprise a lot of people. Wendell Carter Jr. I've sung praises about Wendell since the moment we traded him away, which is crazy. Once you're on your team, you're like, we want more and as soon as you trade him away, you're like, dang, I wish we had him. But no, I've sung praises about Wendell Carter since we traded him and last year, he took a huge step with his jump shooting ability. And I'm only gonna assume that he's gonna get better in that aspect. I mean, when he was here in Chicago, he was saying that he would love to play more for and the Orlando Magic have allowed him to play at least some form. When he was with the Bulls, there was no opportunities for him to play for. He actually got that opportunity now. Now, of course, he's probably gonna play full-time five now with Paolo being there. But you saw that defensively, he's still that man. He's an undersized center, but positionally, he's very good. And the offensive game is coming around more and more every single season. But the goggles on, he's a whole different monster. And his last spot, it's a wild card, and it's my Homer pick. It's Io DeSumo with the Bulls losing Lonzo Ball. Somebody has to take in and play a lot more minutes at point guard. It's weird not to have a lot of hope for Kobe White anymore. So Io DeSumo kind of took that in Bulls Nation after a good rookie season. So that's my 10. Again, breakout for me means a lot of different stuff. You enjoyed the video, leave it a like. Let me know who your breakout players are. And I'll see y'all soon.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm That's me coming at you with that 2021 gold rush shoebox collection series 3 Random hit break and we're giving away a spot too. So There'll be two different dice rolls. The first one's gonna be randomizing the the people who bought the nine spots straight up Already got the last spot mojo star there So if you got nine spots, if you got these spots straight up You've got a shot at an extra spot after Three and a five eight times name on top after eight one two three four five six seven And eighth and final time There you go. It's even flat after eight times Congrats to you an extra spot going your way Now here's what we're gonna do We're gonna open up the shoebox first and then we're gonna show you all the hits I'll type the hits in as we go along in the order that I just randomly pull it And then we'll randomize your names randomize the hits and see what you end up with. Good luck And we've got one more of these in the store that we can run back tonight And that's our that's the last shoebox out we have So if you want to run it back definitely Get on it while supplies last All right, the first thing in my hand is An autograph baseball. Oh, I know who that is. We can tell who that is, right? Your 1984 rookie of the year Doc Gooden You got the becket sticker right here No becket card, but you have the becket sticker And the Dwight Gooden Next one we've got some cards We can drag some cards out here All right, we got a Tom Brady. Nice 55 out of 100 Tom Brady press proof card 55 out of 100 We got a Pete Rose Auto grade only PSA 10 We got a Dennis Rodman authentic autograph and we've got a Tyrese Halliburne Freshman fabric jersey and auto not bad. They just beat my Lakers tonight This is from certified. Yeah certified Not numbered Next up mini helmet. Yes. Oh vikings mini helmet The eclipse alternate That is a Rich Ganon Rich Ganon vikings edition. I do not remember Rich Ganon as a viking Yeah, there he is I guess he started his career with the vikings 87 to 92 as a raiders fan. I obviously remember him As a different in a different uniform What is this? Now we've that that must be for the autograph baseball So there's usually a card with that Yeah, that's for the baseball and this is a An old Joe Sewell baseball old baseball player I guess a cut auto or signed check right there. It's pretty awesome. He Back in the day when you would even use a check for five dollars and 46 cents. I think for a Looks like a newspaper subscription Aiden's looking at this being like what what did they do? Yeah, man used to This used to be like cash. This is like a debit card right here You would you would write you would write stuff down. You would write the amount that I'm paying king d And I would give this to king d and king d would have to go to the bank Deposit this And then he would then they would contact my bank pull four dollars five dollars and 46 cents out And give it to it was a process Now I can now I can Tap this on a machine and then it'll take money out Okay, imagine all this work you have to do you have to do you have to write the date You got to write who it's to you got to write the number and then you got to write it out like five like write out Fiv five dollars and You got to write a memo. Why did I write this check for what reason then you got to sign it? crazy times All right next autograph jersey. Whoa Onto de compo Wow nice yannis autograph. There's his number 34. There's a simple autograph.  Is that url camble? I think he was number 34, right? I think that's url camble Yeah, the tyler rose Yeah, thanks kevin. Yeah, indeed url url camble Big smile on his face. Nice. I like that And the last one here Is a hockey player Everyone knows who this is Right That would be Any hockey fans out there? I have no idea who this is Nick nick dillel. You're gonna help me out. Is that Darius? Casperitis I'm looking up his autograph Yep, that's him Thanks, nick Good save there All right, so that's your tenth and final item And now let's do the randomizer and see who gets what And then I'll show you all the hits again one more time All right, so there's one two three four five six seven eight nine ten There are your names right there and let's roll it and randomize it Both lists two and a two for the hard way Your names first one Two Three And fourth and final time You got michael danis steven Two and a two four times for the hits one two three and four After four we got the yannis jersey down to the joe suell autograph check. All right, congrats michael With the yannis autograph jersey steven flat with the spot that you won the Darius casperitis autograph eight by ten Diana you have the dennis rodman dennis rodman Authentic oh, yeah, there we did have a dennis rodman autograph losing my mind Nicholas you have the dot gooden autograph baseball diane with the dennis rodman autographed card Chatted with the p rose autograph card king d for aiden rich gannon the autograph mini helmet the cool looking Eclipse alternate steven flat with the tom brady press proof card 55 out of 100 ryan herald with the Earl Campbell auto eight by ten all over with the tyries halliburne certified Rookie patch and autograph. There you go. Oliver's a king's man and steven with the joe suell autograph check There you go boys and girls There's the penguins guy. There's the earl Campbell Here's the nice the honest It's pretty strong You have the jse sticker and card and everything. It looks like a custom jersey Yeah, it's a custom jersey so no official licensing on it Here are your different cards here There's the check there's the autograph Dot gooden and there is the Mini helmet with that that yellow neon yellow looks pretty cool on the matte black right there There you go gang. I'm joe for jaskies case breaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


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How's it going every one Caleb here with late in sports cards? We're gonna be working on stadium club chrome This is number four four box break random team style champions league stadium club chrome that is Thanks again for joining here the results one more time. They're also linked in your chats. Let's get right to it Good luck. Good luck. I'm gonna be digging around for some yokes cards tomorrow here a mile. That sounds fun I haven't like been been to a card show since I lived in Connecticut But you've been to card shows well, yeah, I've said now with the intention of yeah going to it I haven't been in a car show or I haven't been able to walk around for more than 10 minutes Right exactly exact Louise mario. That's base. Sorry thought it was refractor Felix Mava B&B insert there young boys again Yeah, man, that's card shows are the best Ah Gabby rookie nine single Pedgery Over 1500 you've got to have the most Arizona coyotes cards in the entire world. You got a Jeremiah Manuel Muir There's no chance. There's a bigger Arizona coyotes collector out there. I will believe that Peterson Michael that is Refractor holy cow this stuff to see in that one Felix lampard That's gonna be green for Chelsea numbered 177 of 199 you go Chelsea The lampard there Bop a Weston McKinney Saudi Omani Holland So that Davies based again grease me autograph this time. It's gonna be at World Comma venga Real Madrid very solid There you go. Not numbered refractor auto Awesome player there Colissage definitely take that start cool one for you there Congrats real Madrid Real time this time is Raheem Sterling Batman City Superfast look away and all the Sun. He's 20 yards past you That's Karim Adiyami Salisburg on the championship contributions bends him a base That's true. That's true Here's some Michael we have insert this time Georgie Ocellini or excuse me refractor. It looks like an insert again Nice, just love the art on stadium club. It's so nice. Once again Pictures that they choose our fans has Melo Lukaku Brendan Areson He said You think they're gonna move chicken?  Insert that time is Francisco Konchal real time on the inserts Clark Schmidt perfect game through one inning for the eights. Wow, that's huge through one Benjamin sesco Salisburg refractor just get a notification for that. Yeah, you like to get notifications after I have the one They're always saying one zero hits through one perfect inning for Clark Schmidt May March you and your hand right although Another spot came in for a dual mega nice dual mega guys keeps filling it up keep feeling it up. Thank you so much Erling Holland for Dortmund's championship contributions Nice one there Yeah, that's true. Isn't he really young though? I feel like he's got a builder It's gonna be negative this time Dubon Zapata Atlanta to 299 281 to 299 negative David truce it truce get eventase refractor The lead thanks for the follow there appreciate that 28 Vandesha Giovanni Rainier Rafael Varane never mind. Yeah, no, then I'd say probably he's the next one to go pink Sanjo Tenali pink not numbered and Then insert of gel Felix real time. All right sick three boxes left actually funny enough I did I meant to tell you this Jeremiah did uh like report John Cha Chaika or Chaika the former coyotes GM he got the job when he was 25 That's 25 GM of the He's playing like NHL ultimate. Yeah 25 years old with a full franchise That's unreal That's a great person to report on Yeah, that's unreal Memphis to pay Barcelona championship contributions Real time of Pogba Using in man to you on Pogba. Yeah. No, he wasn't very I mean who's surprised by that though You G luigi down a rumor.   Nice one, man. You that's a great picture Yeah, it's a great picture. Not a bad player at all. Yeah refractor rookie. There you go Alanga there congrats great picture lampard cacu base I Yeah, go for it. Yep Autograph this time is gonna be Max since LeCroy Wolfsburg.  That's Villa Rial to 299 Villa Rial there Did he actually cost graphics for illegal scouting? I did not know that it's pretty fun. That's brutal Sala, it's pretty rough. I didn't know I'd be fair I just basically did wrote what Wikipedia told me fair fair as all college kids do name our junior and although in gray He did own like a stat like an NHL refractor Brendan Aaronson my sales group And real-time Trant Alexander Arnold base He did own like an analytics like an hockey analytics company before so he does come from like a legitimate background, but Still a tough sell it. Yeah, still a tough sell at 25 years old. Nice for Havente's Weston McKinney Do you go to 199? Nice green Raelish It's pretty wild What an opportunity David Alava What an insane opportunity He I think he made the Taylor Hall trade and not kind of Sealed his face. Oh nice. Okay numbered. I don't know this refractor. It's just the style of the card That's pretty sick. Holy cow. I like that one athletic. Oh Madrid Looks cool nice action shot there Harvey Elliott's insert of a Marco Verratti Real-time insert Yeah, that's true. I mean you guys obviously need to go into rebuild mode In Bob a the base there Fonzo Davies Griezmann, Sanjo Tenale, Joe Felix Look at this Wow, welcome back It's gonna be refractor Romelu Lukaku for Chelsea. Nice refractor there other God Yvonne Romero that is Aqua wave numbered 76 to 250 Sevilla you go Timothy way Let's keep it moving a couple boxes left in the break Three why so that's on a diamond icon. I can't Benjamin say sco pink for salesperson Nice guys three remaining on that first diamond icons random hit style Coming up in about a half hour or so you can find it linked in the chat There are three remaining now. We've been making some great progress. That was at seven just a couple of minutes ago So thanks again so much just three to go now Let's keep it going This is the last soccer break of the night after this we do have tier one baseball Usually you just say tier one. You got to say baseball as well. You have Boondis League out right now It's your one Boondis League Mateo Rossina for Atlanta nice green to 199 26 of 199 there Atlanta sick looking card Not a bad start at all Nico Gonzalez base Arpelliate in poppy and world of comma venga refractor IRL wrecked Thank you, Sean. Thank you That is gonna be a renaldo real time Memphis to pay Loud trip Saudi Oman a bro Fanzo Davies of that base card. Oh That's sick. How about wow Kevin de Bruyne? Yay auto man city blue color match 50 of 75 boom awesome hit there congrats man city That is so sick Kenny G congratulations Awesome de Bruyne a auto 50 is 75 One of the better ones you can find on the checklist in terms of the ink Congrats, Kenny. We'll make that for you, man That's really nice love to see ink like that He has been around forever Mo Salah His auto is crazy he says Now that's not true Dominic, uh, so Bosley there he is again for lepsi Not so hard Now It is Sean it is this stuff is really cool. Yeah, I mean the look is one thing and then the hits have been great as well Yeah, Yvonne Romero refractor And Nico Borrella It's gonna be the 175 there It's like a green hyper Inter Milan, oh Well picks in 2023 14 and 2024 for the oats cheese Timothy way refractor for needle And maybe bring in a vet or something We have Brendan Aaronson So 125 there interesting Salzburg to 125 Thanks for us that's a cool parallel I can kind of see it now Memphis to pay for Barcelona, huh? This has been a good box. Good break Night vision. Thanks for us Ronaldo graylish Mason mountain for Chelsea couple of guys on to body and shall Felix Tyler Morton we got Cole Palmer on the refractor there Cole Palmer man city refractor And and how Gomez real-time Not a govy rookie Virtual banded like Jude Bellingham nice glimpse of gold Dortmund there you go sick inserts very solid on the insert Lewandowski and it is David Alaba pink knot number for real Madrid Really solid box that that was we got one to go guys I'm a bingo and that'll do it See what else we can't find just one left 13 to go now on that dual case guys. You can check it out right here We've got a big baseball break taking place tonight if you have not checked it out already Please do so if you are in the baseball Diamond icons is paired up with definitive a case of each four boxes of diamond icons Three boxes of definitive random team style. It's down to 13 left now LinkedIn your chats It'll be coming up later this evening just about an hour away from that. So let's keep working on filling it up guys Nice, it's gonna be a night vision Karim Adiyami Salzburg again on the night vision to 175 You go. I like the night vision Yeah, they look kind of cool pretty unique card. Yeah Jordan Saibichu, that's a young boys on the insert there Rane base back there Curtis Jones the Toro Martinez Refractor Mateo as Pazina at Lanza refractor and real time of Phil Foden Go Fati base Joe Felix right in Gravenbock. They PSG. There you go Glimpse of gold is Gabi. You go Barcelona base of him as well Dude that card was insane. Jeremiah nasty Autograph Joe Felix very nice refractor auto not numbered Athletico Madrid Solid hit there. That was insane, man. I can't believe that card still to this day One day later. I can't believe it One in 2,500 packs or something like that It's a 24 pack box Takes a lot of cases a lot of cases 8 box case This time it's gonna be a negative Trent Alexander Arnold limber pool to 299 Nice negative there Sonia Mane Holland Mason mounts refractor solid Lizsage base. Yep. There's a celebration Yeah It says Saturday in my schedule school. Yep, but it says Saturday. I think it might have been duplicated Gotcha and What is the exact break? Brent's mess around with stuff later. Yeah, exactly earlier. There's a chance something happened This Yes, that's why somebody asked if it was for tonight. I said no currently Because my schedule I checked all the time. There's no grab. Yeah Interesting You might have missed when you're scheduling. It's okay Yeah, I will just toss it to can you change it to Sunday in description and I'll reschedule it Just do that. I think that'll be the easiest thing, right? I mean, I can't think of a better solution. Yeah, it's celebration. Exactly All right, let's keep going a couple of Konde Nico Gonzalez Jonathan David Get a green of Curtis Jones nice green their Liverpool to 150 49 of 150 beautiful green Phil Foden, Benzema Sebastian Haylor Jordan Adamu couple of couple Dabroni base messy base Nice base messy. It's just junior That's going to be insert Raheem Sterling real time.  And that'll do it guys. Thanks again. Let's do a quick hit recap on that break. They're on a baseball tonight We did have a refractor autograph of Jal Felix for Atletico Madrid Maxins Lacroix refractor Wolfsburg autograph and Ronald Kamatinga for Real Madrid and numbered To 75 autograph for Man City Kevin de Bruyere And some fantastic hits here tonight in the soccer products. Thanks again everyone for joining them I do really appreciate it and we will be on to baseball tier one next tonight


The consumer electronics industry has, like many speciality industries, peculiar demands and behaviours where rationale makes place for emotion. The question is, where does rationale moors into emotion? A few years ago, on a high-end show, I spoke to a man that confessed his guilty pleasure. He loved watching the large blue power meters on his advanced acoustic power amplifier. These meters made him decide to buy that amp.  Actually, I wouldn't. He was in touch with his desires, but a good sounding amp that, as a bonus, offered him a nice viewing experience. I consider that a rational control over irrational desires. Manufacturers of audio gear have learned that the looks of gear might be just as important or even more important than the sound. The looks tell the buyer how to weigh the product. A Raspberry Pi with headboard in an acrylic housing says, I'm cleverer than most for I get great sound for little money. On the other side of the spectrum, a massive shiny machined aluminium housing for a CD player says, I'm very well built, so I sound very good, and that's why I'm not cheap. Tube amplifiers nowadays have lats in the tube sockets to make sure the tubes show sufficient light to confirm it's a tube amp. And so on. It's not only the looks, there also is the feels. A flimsy volume control degrades the user experience, even if it has conductive plastic resistor tracks. While a solid feeling, clicking volume control gives confidence, even if it has a poor carbon resistor track. So manufacturers spend a lot of money on giving a product the right look and feel and have it promoted accordingly. Depending on the product there can be a lot of money being involved and that is of course calculated into the selling price. Don't blame the manufacturer for that. He is only anticipating on our behaviour. Every industry gets the geeks it deserve. So it's our fault now. Yes, not that we can help it. It's just how we function. It has made traditional mid-class brands very weak, leaving us mainly boutique brands and mass market brands. The boutique market needs a completely different approach than the mass market. The boutique market communicates user experience more while the mass market, at least in the audio realm, tries to convince you of the quality of their products by numbers. Like it has the PCM1234 DAC chip you also find in equipment costing a 10 fold. It does 384 kHz in 32 bits. It delivers 2 x 200 watts in 8 ohms and so on. I have frequently explained that using a given DAC chip does not guarantee a given sound quality, like mounting wider tires under a Kia Picanto does not make it a gold GTI. Nothing wrong with a Kia Picanto by the way, it's just not a golf GTI and it can't be for the money. Like 384 kHz capability doesn't make a cheap DAC sound as good as a better, more expensive DAC. So what to think of music files at a higher sampling frequency? The choice of titles in high definition music is very limited. There is some choice at 88.496 kHz and even lower choice at 176.4192 kHz. Even higher sampling rates are available but only as downloads from webshops like nativdsd.com where many labels offer their albums. But it is mainly classical, some folk, some blues and some world music and although I personally love these genres, they represent only a small portion of the music market. Music that hit the charts is normally enjoyed in MP3 or perhaps in CD quality, while only a limited number of albums come available in 96 kHz in streaming services like Kuboos and Tidal, the latter only in MQA formats and in download stores where you can choose from stereo or multichannel in both HDPCM and DSD. And you do need hardware that is capable of playing these files properly. Also in the hardware limitations can be found. When we compare 44.1 kHz 16 bit files to 352.8 kHz 24 bit files, we see a bitrate during playback that is 12 times as high. 384.24 is even 13.1 times higher. I always thought that these higher bitrates would not cause any problem for asynchronous USB for that can handle far higher bitrates. But the men who developed asynchronous USB, Gordon Rankin, made clear in several interviews with colleagues of mine that his USB protocol for audio does not guarantee ever free data transport and that the number of errors increase with the bitrate. He also stated that using his protocol means that errors are going to be interpolated in the DAC and thus not recent or error corrected. And that in his experience Windows computers overuse the generate 12% more hard errors in digital audio bit streams than Apple computers. Furthermore he advises to avoid using a USB drive storing your music files on the same USB channel as the DAC is. You rather use a drive on eSATA, Thunderbolt or Firewire or make sure your computer has two USB channels and connect it to the channel not used for the DAC. Nor should you place music files on the same drive as your operating system is on, which means the OS uses quite some bandwidth for administrative and control tasks. That might obstruct music streaming a bit, diminishing the sound quality. What can I say, Rankin has the equipment to measure it, he has developed a protocol and has implemented it for several manufacturers. Still manufacturers have conflicting opinions. Orelik, the highly respected manufacturer of streamers and DACs, advises you to use SSDs for music storage while Melco, well respected manufacturer of music servers and sister company of network specialist Buffalo Inc. clearly states that normal SSDs are more noisy than spinning hard disks and you better use these. If you really want to use SSDs you should use special low noise types. What we do know is that more bandwidth due to higher sampling rates will at least frequently generate more noise. Firstly, tone down the natural desire for higher figures and use rationale. A 99 euro DAC can't have a very good clock oscillator for that doesn't fit the budget. These oscillators vary in wholesale price from a few dollars for the poor ones to over 50 dollars for the best ones and it's clear that the latter is not fitted. The same goes for speed-event USB receiver chips, the resistors, the capacitors and the housing. These DACs often are no more than a simple design based on the application note of the DAC chip manufacturer. They work properly but sound ways don't expect more than there is to expect from a 99 euro DAC. By the way, if such a DAC pleases you, please enjoy it, just don't say it's the best DAC in the world. Playing high resolution files over it might sound somewhat better than the CD quality files, mainly because the reconstruction filter has to work less hard. But it might also sound less because of all the jitter that occurs due to the components limitations. I would not take claims of 384 kHz capability seriously. Sure, it will play 384 kHz files, but does it bring better sound quality? From a few hundred euros onward I would expect to have benefit from high sampling rate for then the components can be of decent quality. The circuits will be better so it's fair to expect lower jitter. Then the advantage of milder reconstruction filters for the high res files pays off. This is also where MQA brings clear benefits, having lower bit weights and better reconstruction filters. Funny enough, DACs costing a few thousand euros benefit less from high res and MQA for components cost, circuit design time and circuit board design time can be higher. Good designs will have less problems reading in data from the digital source, might have better, sometimes proprietary reconstruction filters and have far better power supply. In general having better specifications does not guarantee better sound quality. Marketers know we humans like guarantees and therefore like you to think that better specifications lead to better products. Then engineers are summoned to, for instance, further lower figures by overall feedback loops in amps. And that works like a charm as long as you don't judge the sound quality. But you can only really judge that when you have bought the product. Also do realize that low priced products are low priced because they are not worth more money. When in the 60s Japanese cars came to Europe they didn't drive as well as European cars but they came standard with a stereo radio while it was optional on European brands. By the time Japanese cars were as good as European cars, they were priced equally. The same thing happened with South Korean cars and will happen with Chinese cars. This also goes for electronics you now can get cheaply from China. Although there is one clear difference. Cars are sold by local dealers while cheap electronics is sold in webshops in Asia. Now don't get me wrong, the better ones will deliver what you have ordered. But what to do if a 200 euro product gets defective? Sennigbet to China with insurance would cost 62 euros in my country. Buying more expensive equipment is less of a problem. The Yulong D810 I have reviewed performs up to western standards and is also available through channels on your Kent continent. In Europe for instance through audiophonics.com or France. And spending 60 euros on shipping for a 1000 euro product is less of a problem of course. Playback of high resolution files is easily done. Making them sound better does require more than a very cheap DAC. You at least have to spend a few hundred euros on the DAC and a bit more on the rest of your stereo. Don't get blinded by the light. 384 kHz is very limited as far as software choice is concerned. There is a limited number of 96 and 192 kHz albums available, also from artists that hit the charts but often you pay a premium price. Buy one or two or take a short subscription to a high-res streaming service and compare to see if you hear a difference and if that difference is positive. If not, there are two ways to go. You simply stay at CD quality and enjoy the music, or you upgrade your stereo and then start using high-res music. And with that bombshell we got to the end of this video. I'd love to see you back next Friday at 5pm central European time in a new video. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. Many thanks to those viewers that support this channel financially. It keeps me independent and thus trustworthy. If you would like to support my work, the links are in the comments below this video on YouTube. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.