In this discussion we will be discussing the discussion question of describe the operating cycle for a merchandising company. When thinking about the operating cycle for a merchandising company, we're really contrasting that with the operating cycle from a service company, meaning we're focusing on that cycle of inventory, the purchasing and the selling of inventory. So we can think about that process as if we're going to have a business where we make money by purchasing something, then marking it up and then selling up, selling it, that will in essence be the cycle that we are talking about here. So the first component in the cycle is we're going to take any money that we have, we're going to purchase merchandise, merchandise that we intend to resell. We're going to hold on to that inventory or that merchandise until the point in time we can sell it. We're going to mark it up, of course, so that we sell it at a profit and then we're going to make the sale. Now typically when we think about this cycle, we think about it as making the sale on account. Although we could make it for cash, if we made it for cash then we would just take that cash and buy more inventory that would be the cycle. But typically when when you're asked a question like this we think of the longer type of cycle where we would make the sale on account, we would give the inventory and we would have an IOU and accounts receivable. We would then get payment on the receivable at some point in time and once we have the money, once again, we'll use that money to buy more inventory that we will then plan to sell. That's going to be the cycle we want to think about when considering a merchandising company.


Governor, I'm making this pitch directly to you. It's something that's really important. It's about the mask situation. As I'm sure you've heard, the CDC now recommends that we all wear masks, but this message to you is to tell you that that is not enough. You see, the thing is, modeling shows that unless we get 80% of the population to wear masks, this isn't going to work. If we do get 80% to wear masks, the virus we expect will be completely blown away. Transmission will be stopped. That's how important this is to the economy and to people's lives. I'm going to share with you two things now. The first is a segment I just did on CNN, and the reason I'm going to share it is that at the end of the segment, they asked the viewers, would you wear a mask? 92% of a sample of 20,000 said yes. This is a message that Americans can get behind. The problem is though, we need nearly everybody to actually turn that into action, not just a poll on a TV station, so we need enforcement. I've already drafted up a simple piece of a law. It's actually based on the law that's already in Laredo, but I've done something extra to it. I've actually added a carve out for N95. In other words, if you use this executive order, then it will be saying to people, you have to have a mask outside in public, but well, in shops, gas stations, stuff like that, unless it's an N95 mask, that's not okay. So if you use this approach, you're actually going to get two things at once. You're going to ensure more supply for the hospitals who really need that vital PPE, because there's no point hoarding something that no one's allowed to use anymore. And you're going to save lives and get the economy back up and running much sooner. So have a look at the segment, and then after that segment, if you're still wondering whether the science makes sense, there's a really great video from a top pathologist who explains why this really is the right approach. If you're interested in talking more about this, please feel free to reach straight out to me. I've made an email address just for this policy at masksforall.co. You can see the text down at the bottom there. All right, I hope this works. And sooner we can do it, the better, because things are changing every day, and actually I'm going to be on TV talking about this pretty soon, and I'd love to be able to show some good news. Who was the governor in America who was the first to move on this? That would be history making. Thanks very much for listening. At the height of the HIV crisis, authorities did not tell people to put away condoms. As fatalities from car crashes mounted, nobody recommend avoiding seatbelts. Yet in a global respiratory pandemic, people who should know better are discouraging Americans from using respiratory protection. Jeremy Howard is a distinguished research scientist at the University of San Francisco. He wrote those words for The Washington Post. Mr. Howard, the WHO initially said you only need to wear a mask if you're taking care of a person with a suspected COVID-19 infection. How did they get it so wrong? Well, we now know that about 50% of people that are infected have no symptoms. We also know that during the first week is when people are most infectious, when they're least likely to have symptoms. So what the WHO did here was that they did not err on the side of caution. They weren't quite sure of the science, and so they said, don't do it. What they should have said is do do it, because what we now know is, or we strongly guess, is that if 80% of people in a community wear a face mask, any kind of cloth cover, it can actually stop the virus in its tracks. So here is the cloth cover that I am using. I don't know if you can see it. When I wear it, am I doing so to protect myself or to protect you? Primarily, you're doing it to do your bit in the community to protect others. We know that this disease spreads when we talk. Little droplets fly out of our mouth, so small you can't see them. It just makes obvious sense, and the science shows any kind of cloth cover stops that. It's actually been estimated by Yale researchers this week that each person wearing a single mask has a value of at least $4,000 to $6,000 due to the huge impact it has on transmission. There's some stunning data that you have provided me represented in graphs. I'll put it on the screen showing South Korea side by side with Italy. Pretty self-explanatory, but please provide the background. Well, the really interesting background is that until late February, a lot of folks in South Korea couldn't get masks, and they were also continuing their kind of cultural approach of only wearing masks when they had symptoms. Everything changed in late February. The government stepped in and ensured that everybody had access to a mask. And you can see what happened. Before that, they were on track with Italy to be as bad as Italy, and then suddenly everything turned around. And now, the number of cases there is decreasing without even a lockdown. I made reference to what the president had to say yesterday, the sort of juxtaposition of announcing this CDC recommendation and then saying that he himself wouldn't be engaging in that behavior. I want to roll a small piece of audio, video, pardon me, from this, and then I ask a question. Show it. This is voluntary. I don't think I'm going to be doing it, but you have a lot of ways you can look at it as follows. The CDC is recommending that Americans wear a basic cloth or fabric mask that can be either purchased online or simply made at home, probably material that you'd have at home. What does your review of the data from around the globe show as to the issue of cultural difference or even vanity? I know that you looked to check Republic. Right. I was really surprised to find that actually there's lots of examples now of countries that have gone all in on this and are in the West. Israel, it's the law. Czech Republic, it's the law. Austria, it's the law. Slovakia, it's the law.  If somebody is behind you in the shopping line to do your weekly essential shopping and they're not wearing a mask in the Czech Republic, people will look at that person now and say, why aren't they doing their bit? We know that COVID-19 is like a silent assassin now. As you walk around the streets, you could be killing people without knowing it. Masks are the closest thing we have right now to this kind of imperfect vaccine. Science just this week in nature shows that in studies, 100% of people that were tested, simple cloth covering stopped the transmission of those critical droplets. To beat the coronavirus, everyone should wear a mask. Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Chris Martinson, and I'm here to tell you how we're going to beat this coronavirus. I have been reporting on this coronavirus for 70 days. I have a PhD in pathology from Duke University, and I want to take you through the logic of why everyone should wear a face mask. It begins here with all these things that we can do, that we need to do to beat this particular virus. It begins here, but this is one of the most important steps right here. Face masks for everyone. Now, why is that? Well, here's what we know. We know that this particular virus, it spreads really quickly and easily from both symptomatic and asymptomatic people. So let's imagine this woman here. She's got a perfectly normal temperature, but she can have the virus and be communicating it. And here's how you get this virus. Somebody who's infected gets a particle outside of their body, and that goes into your body. And we know that very large infectious droplets fall out of the air very quickly. Smaller ones travel much further, but really tiny infectious droplet nuclei, they travel really far. And so these can form, and they are super small, so they just blow around in the air. I'm going to show you a little bit about that. It's not just that somebody who's sneezing or coughing is passing this to other people. So how do we beat this thing? Very simple solution to a very complex problem. Everybody wears a mask. Here's the logic behind that. Reason one, I'm going to give you three reasons why everyone should wear a mask is, number one is it stops infected people from expelling infectious particles. Remember these things up here? We want to keep those particles not out in the air. We want to keep them inside our masks. So let's look at the difference here. In this GIF right here, we're seeing somebody who's sneezing just into the air. Look at all those particles flying. And then yes, there is still stuff sneaking around the edges here, but look how much material got caught in the mask material itself. Here's another great piece of research that came out very recently. This shows the tiny particles that are being spread around when people are just talking. You see big particles falling out. You see little ones floating around. Every one of these is a particle that could be carrying infectious disease particles, viruses in there that could make you sick.   So what we need to know is that I hate this saying don't touch your face because you know why? Because the virus doesn't come in through your face. It comes in through your mouth and it comes in through your nose. And it's also possible it can come in through the eyes. But a mask at least if you're wearing a mask that covers up this part right here, you are not breathing those particles in to the places in your upper nose where the virus can bind or down in your lungs where the virus can also bind and begin replicating. So that is reason number two. It helps to remind you not to touch the insides of your mouth or your nose. In fact, it will physically prevent you.  What's reason number three? Reason number three, really, really important.  But if you are infected anyway, you have a much, much better chance of starting small. That is with a low inoculum. And that gives you a much better disease outcome. Here's an opinion piece in the New York times by a couple of doctors here. And I love what they said. They say here, both large and small amount, both small and large amounts of virus can replicate within our cells cause severe disease in vulnerable individuals such as the immunocompromised in healthy people. However, immune systems respond as soon as they sense a virus growing inside. Recovery depends on which wins the race. Viral spread or immune activation. Virus experts know that viral dose affects the severity, the illness severity, viral dose. So in the lab, mice receiving a low dose of virus clear it and recover while the same virus at a higher dose kills them. Dose sensitivity has been observed for every common acute viral infection that has been studied in lab animals, including coronaviruses. So that's reason number three, it gives you better odds of a lesser illness. If you do get a tiny virus particle through your mask, it will come in, but it'll be tiny. It'll be a small dose that increases your odds. So the three reasons everyone wears a mask, it stops the infected people from spreading it around.  And if you do get infected anyway, much better odds that you're starting small with a low inoculum, and that gives you a better disease outcome, a better chance of fighting it off.  So this is saying it's not perfect, never let perfect become the enemy of the good enough. This person is making the argument that homemade masks is all worrying because there's some evidence that fabric masks can increase your risk of infection, but they're quoting clinical studies where nurses and doctors were around super infected people wearing homemade masks. That's not what we're talking about. All right, how do we beat this thing? Everybody wears a mask. It prevents the spread. It reminds us not to touch our mouth and our nose, and it gives you a better odds of a lesser illness. So what sorts of masks? Hey, all kinds of masks, just not the ones with the little valves on them. We don't want those because those allow infected things to pass out of our mouths really easily in our nose. So any of these totally good, but you know what else is good and better than nothing because we need these right now for the medical frontline healthcare providers. Don't get these. Let's leave these right now later when supplies come back and they're ample for everyone. These are the best, but what do we do until then? Wonderful cottage industry of people making their own homegrown, sown mask, home sown mask here here with an insert of a HEPA filter. I bet this thing's doing a really good job, but you know what? It's doing a whole lot better than nothing. Remember when people sneezing that stuff all out? And by the way, you can find these face masks and all over the place. People are making them, donating them. It's a wonderful, wonderful thing that's happening here. So this is how we beat this thing. We join together, we create face masks and we always, always, always wear a mask in public whether we think we're healthy or not or don't know or we're sick. Any reason at all when everybody's wearing a face mask, we will beat this thing. Thank you for listening.


Tamil Nadu, a state where the oceans meet, cultures blend and people prosper, is now opening its doors to a new world, a world of clean, green source of energy. Today the nation's development is propelled by a robust gas-based economy and Tamil Nadu embraces too. Energy is a key driver of socio-economic growth. India is making rapid strides towards the gas-based economy. As the nation unites under the visionary leadership of the Honourable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, Tamil Nadu is poised to get an impetus to its economy by three new projects. India's premier oil company, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, has laid a 144-kilometre long Ramanathapuram-Tutukudi natural gas pipeline, which is a part of Ennore-Tiruvallur-Bengaluru-Puducherry-Nagapatinam-Madurai-Tutukudi natural gas pipeline, takes ahead the mission of one nation, one gas grid, with a design capacity of 8 MMS-CMD. This pipeline, which originates from Ramanathapuram, commercializes the gas produced from ONGC gas fields. It ensures continuous affordable fuel and feeds stock for petrochemical and fertilizer industries in the area. Natural gas replaces naphtha, reducing subsidy burden on the government. Large number of farmers will be benefited as they would be supplied with affordable fertilizer. This pipeline shall be connected to Ennore-LNG terminal to transport imported, regasified green-piped natural gas to households, industries and commercial units across southern India. It feeds compressed natural gas to transport sector, creating pollution-free environment. Cauvery Basin refinery shall be constructed by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited and its partners at Nagapatinam. Once operational, this refinery shall transform Nagapatinam into one of the leading petroleum hubs of the nation. With an estimated cost of Rs. 31,500 crore, this refinery manifests the spirit of Atmanirbharbharat as the technology is indigenously developed by the Indian Oil Research and Development Department. This visionary project will not only maintain steady supply of fuel to the southern part of the country, but also helps in bringing new downstream businesses and industries bettering the socioeconomic levels of the state. The gasoline desulphurization unit at CPCL Manali is now operational. This unit desulphurizes about 0.6 million metric tons per annum of gasoline from FCC unit to produce low-sulphur environment-friendly gasoline. This unit demonstrates government's commitment towards making Tamil Nadu a clean and environmentally friendly state. These projects shall generate lacks of direct and indirect job opportunities, boosting development in the aspirational districts of southern Tamil Nadu. Honorable Prime Minister lays foundation stone at Cauvery Basin refinery Nagapatinam, dedicates Ramanathapuram-Tutukudi natural gas pipeline and gasoline desulphurization unit at CPCL Manali to the nation today. Prosperous Tamil Nadu, Atmanirbharbharat


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Het doet alles wat je nodig hebt om een zet van headphones, actieve speakers of een amp en passive speakers te drijven. Het doet de NLA streaming, MQA en functiont als een Roon Endpoint of Airplay Renderer. En het ziet er goed uit. Driftend door het headphone trend, meer en meer de sokole headphone amps komen op de markt. Zoals je weet, ik hou niet van het luisteren van headphones. Ik voel me locktop en isolatieve en heb deze voeding te ontdekken als claustrophonisch.  Zoals de Element X bij Matrix Audio. Laten we kijken hoe dat werkt. De Element X is connecteerd over RCAO XLR cables naar de analoge ingang van een amplifier of power amp, drijven een zet van speakers. Om de streaming function te gebruiken, de Element X moet connecten met de netwerk over een netwerkkabel of wifi, zodat het met streaming services en radio stations op de internet kan accessen. Als je muziek op jouw computer of nas speelt, kan dat ook geplaatst zijn. En er zijn verschillende manieren om dat te doen, waarom later nog meer. Remote controlervolum, inputselectie, filters en stand-by kan worden gedaan door de heel mooie bekende metalremote controler te gebruiken. Controleren in de streaming function is gedaan door een smartphone of tablet te gebruiken depending op de manier waar je werkt. Deze ga ik terug. Een andere manier om te werken is de computer te connecten direct naar de Element X. Genereer de beste manier om dit te doen is om een USB kabel te gebruiken, maar speedup of tosteling kan ook gebruikt zijn. Even beter dan een USB zou zijn om een i-squared S output card in je computer en dat te connecten met de i-squared S input op de Element X. Om muziek te spelen, run je een audiophile muziekplayer zoals Aurevana, J River, Rune of Equal op de computer. De andere digitale sources kunnen ook connecten, zoals de tosteling output van je cd-player, tv set, setup box, dvd player of een game console. Bekijk dat de i-squared S input gebruikt als een HDMI kabel, maar kan niet connecten met de HDMI output van een videodevijs. Om de tv, setup box, game console of dvd player te connecten moet je de speedup of tosteling output van deze devices gebruiken. Om het over het hoofdpapen te spelen, gebruik je 1 of 2 van de 3 hoofdpapen connecten op de front wanneer de output van de Element X wordt veranderd om de hoofdpapen of balanspapen in plaats van line-out. De sterde anodise aluminium houding is U-shaped en heeft kooling profiles aan de zijkant. Het maakt 340 x 281 x 50 mm excluding de feed en 60 mm including the feed. Het maakt 4,2 kg. Op de front rijdt de stand-by-button, de rotary encoder dat functiont als volume control en dubbelt als een input-device voor scrollen door menu's, de input-selector, de output-selector en de display. Op de linker 3 hoofdpapen, een 4 pin XLR voor balanspapen en 2 combinatie 6,3 jack en 3 pole XLR-connectoren voor iederke single-ended hoofdpapen of balanspapen met 2 XLR's. Op de rear vinden we de IEC main socket dat accepteert iederke 115 of 230 volt op de positie van een switch in de bottom. Dan de network socket en, als alternatief, 2 sockets voor de geïncluïde wifi antenna's. Dan 2 USB-A-sockets voor storagemedia, houding muziek, een microSD-card voor storing muziek en een USB-B socket als audio input van een computer. Een i-squaredes input op HDMI, 2 tostlings en 2 spiddips complete digital inputs. De output's zijn available als single-ended on RCA en balanspapen op XLR. Het neemt op een screwing 28 screws om binnen te krijgen waar we een simpele metal frame zien, wat is fijn, by the way, de sturdig ouderhuising maakt het een solide constructie. Directe na de AC input zien we de mainsfilter, de toroidisch transformator en de rest van de linea power supply met fijn componenten zoals de Nishikon electrolytic capacitors. Dit geeft de basic voltage, waardoor lokale voltage regulaties garantieven perfecte stabel, low-noise, lokale voltages. Dit lowerboot zorgt voor alle digitale interfacing. We zien een XMOS USB receiver, een microchip USB controller en een Xilink processor. Boven de digitale interfacing zien we de streamer als een separate plug-in unit met op de top in piggyback style de wifi radio's. De digitale audio signalen zijn aan de digitale to analoge versie done by the pro version of the ESS ES9038 and clocked by the Crystek CCHD9950 ventoclock crystal. Signal is then separated in left and right balanced analog channels with in between an output stage for the single-ended output. It's worth mentioning that a special hybrid volume control is used. It combines digital volume control that is more precise doing smaller steps and analog volume control that does the big steps so the digital system always has sufficient resolution. The technical design lets you expect good measurements, but that's not the case. The measurements are very, very good. Let me show you the linearity. It represents the relation between the digital level and the analog level. The turquoise line represents the measured relation between the digital and analog signals. So if the digital signal dictates a signal of minus 120 dB on the horizontal scale, the analog output should be at 120 dB below the maximum output of the DAC on the less vertical scale. The green line shows the deviation and uses the right vertical axis. As you can see, there is next to no deviation at minus 120 dB while many technicians stop measuring at minus 120 dBs. Even at minus 140 dBs, the deviation is only about plus 1.3 dB and that's most likely due to noise. For that's the nice thing about this measurement. You see the amplitude error that causes distortion, although the audibility of this is rather low. You also see the noise floor for then the analog signal can't drop deeper. But you can also see that the jitter must be very low, since with low-bit converters like these jitter can also have effect on the linearity. Now let me warn you that despite what others say, there is no way to measure the perceived audio quality. I have reviewed equipment that measured badly and sounded fantastic and vice versa. A good reviewer should measure to detect design errors, but should always judge audio equipment by ear. There are many ways to use the element X. Let's start with Matrix Audio's implementation of NPD. This is the basic music player of Linux and it is bit perfect. Not only that, it can be controlled by numerous free NPD apps. But Matrix Audio offers a free app too, that has device specific functions. Let's start it up and go to the settings. Here you can set the language to either Chinese or English. Define what must be done when you start playback. Some browse modes, screen timeout and for instance start an update if necessary. Help, troubleshooting and technical support can be had here too. When we select library along the bottom of the screen we see the album on the external hard disk connected to one of the two USB-A sockets on the rear. Album hard was present on the hard disk, but many files might have been too large to work with the MA app. The first time you access that disk, it will take some time to read in all the albums. The same goes for artists, but once read in, it shows pictures of most artists, something that is not present on the hard disk. The MA app is not the most responsive app, but it does work and it has a nice feature. The virtual remote, that not only works when using the MA app to select the music but also when you use DLLA or Roon. So let's take a look at DLLA. As said, you need to have a DLLA server running on a computer or NAS. There are countless DLLA server programs available for Windows, macOS, Linux and NASs. Many of them free. I use Minimum Server 2 that for basic use is free while a paid version offers more versatility. In contrast to many DLLA servers Minim Server only does audio and therefore works with more audio specific metadata fields. I have Minim Server running on the slowest, simplest Synology NAS, the DS119J, that holds an 8 TB drive, that during testing was also synchronizing with my music from another computer. For DLLA you also need a DLLA controller that nowadays is an app on a smartphone or tablet. I use Glider on iPad. It's not free, but it's the best I know. It looks like this. Let's see what music source we will use. The Syn8T is the NAS I just described, so that's selected. Let's go back to the library, select artist and tap the S along the left side of the screen. I wanted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which after a short hiccup appears. Let's jump back to the artist starting with an S and select Sting. Here four albums are found. I select Nothing Like The Sun, which is still my favorite Sting album. As you can see, the combination of Minim Server and Glider works like a breeze and also works fine with the Element X. And remember, the NAS was syncing music at the same time. Working with Rune is just as easy. Set up the Element X in the Audio Setup menu and you can select it from the Zones menu. Using AirPlay is even simpler. Just select the Element X in the AirPlay menu. Every digital to analog conversion needs a reconstruction filter that filters at half the sampling frequency or less to avoid distortion due to aliasing. For CD, that's 22.05 kHz, but usually 20 kHz is used. Unfortunately it's not possible to have a filter dat let 20.000 Hz past en fully blocked 20.000 plus 1 Hz without smearing the signal out over time. So a compromise is needed. And as with all compromises, there is no absolute truth, especially with audio files. Place three audio files in a room and you have four opinions as the saying goes. Matrix Audio therefore offers seven different reconstruction filters that can easily be set from the infrared remote control. They all have slightly different role of characteristics that, as such, should have little influence on the sound characteristic. As you can see, the difference remains within 1 dB up to 18 kHz, which is absolutely inaudible even for those that have ears capable of still hearing 18 kHz. And there won't be many that do and can afford this level of equipment. It's not these frequency responses that give audible results but at time smearing these filters' cores. Let me show you some examples with filter 1. Top row shows a square wave of 1 and 10 kHz and the lower row shows two pulses. All fours show that there is ringing that follows on the signal. The 10 kHz square wave looks rather distorted. This filter is called fast roll-off minimum phase filter and is the default filter. Filter 2 is the slow roll-off minimum phase filter and it shows less post ringing and the 10 kHz square wave still looks rather distorted. Filter 3 is named fast roll-off linear phase filter and now we see both pre and post ringing while the 10 kHz square wave looks somewhat more like a square wave. Filter 4 is called slow roll-off linear phase filter and looks like filter 3 but with less ringing. Filter 5 is the brick wall filter and looks a lot like filter 3. Filter 6 is called hybrid fast roll-off linear phase filter. It shows a slight pre-ringing and has almost the post-ringing of filter 1. Finally, filter 7 is called apodizing fast roll-off linear phase filter. I won't dig deeper into this. I just wanted to show that there is more than just the frequency response. I have not tested the headphone output since I am not a reference in this field. Matrix Audio specifies the output power at 1150 milliwatts in 33 ohms, 308 milliwatts in 300 ohms and 152 milliwatts in 600 ohms, all at 1 percent THD. The LAN connection does 10 base T and 100 base T. More than sufficient for audio and often less noisy than 1000 base T. Both the 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi bands are supported and the A, B, G, N and AC standards are offered too. If you want to use a 2.5 inch USB drive, make sure it's a low power version which most of them are nowadays. If such a drive doesn't work, it's likely due to higher power consumption of the drive. The 3.5 inch drives always have an external power supply that often is noisy. The use of, for instance, i5 i-Power 12 volts DC power supply will in most cases improve the sound quality or rather deteriorate the sound quality less than the included power supply. This is especially the case when the drive is directly connected to the audio device, in this case the element X. FAT, FAT32, AXFAT and NTFS file formats are supported, although some reservations are made in the manual concerning some unmentioned story devices and memory cards. The element X DAC can handle normal PCM formats up to 32 bit 768 kHz and DSD 1024, but only if the interface used does support that. Speed, even tostlink, are limited to 24 bit 192 kHz PCM and DSD 64. USB does PCM up to 24 bit 768 kHz and DSD up to DSD 256 over DOP and DSD 512 native. Rul supports 32 bit 768 kHz PCM and DSD up to DSD 256. I suppose the same goes for DLNA, but I lack the files to check that. And you can wonder how relevant those extremely high sampling rates are, given the very limited availability of program material. The sound quality is to a degree defined by the choice of filter and after some listening I decided to use filter 2 for it comes closest to my ideal of good sound. But from experience I know that non-audio file listeners rather go for a somewhat sharper sounding filter and that's fine to each his own. Then I compare playing music from a USB drive connected to the Element X and controlled over the MA app with playing music from a DLNA server for on the small NAS and from the Roon server. I also tested the speed of input using an Auralic Aries G2 streamer. And there were notable differences. The best result came from using the Aries G2 streamer. Matrix Audio's Dutch distributor Bulls Audio had already noted that I should use the I2S input if I could. But I have no I2S streamer. I know from experience that the speed of output of the Aries G2 using the Ether region switch is of such high quality that it can't be beat by the I2S streamer, as I know. This way the Element X produces an impressive sound quality that exceeds that of the Mitach Brooklyn bridge connected the same way. It's not a giant difference but the Element X is more open and more relaxed. Connecting the syntax power supply to the Mitach changes that and then the authority and lack of stress makes the Mitach win. Prices of the Element X and the Brooklyn bridge are about equal at 3.000 euros. Adding the syntax power supply to the Mitach makes it at 1.000 euros more expensive and thus no fair comparison. Using the MA app and the USB drive was second best en might be the best way to use the Element X for most users. It's also the most practical and affordable way. Just copy your music on a USB drive and connect that to the rear of the Element X in your set. You still get a very good sound quality in its class too. Using one of the network options is just slightly less convincing and that goes to the Mitach too but it's still of a sound quality that was not available in this price category only a few years ago and nothing to be ashamed of. The Element X is extremely versatile and even in this rather long video I'm not able to cover all possibilities. Important is that it's a very good sounding DAC and digital preamp given the price. A direct comparison with the Mitach Brooklyn is not possible since the Mitach also offers an analog input that can be used as line input or MC or MD-Phono input while the signal remains in the analog domain. But the Element X offers I2S input that with a medium price stream can produce better results than SPDIF or USB. The rest is all within the margin and to a degree up to personal preferences and goals. I'm sure that when you choose the Element X you'll be pleased you did. Which is a fine line to finish this video with. There will be a new video next week if all goes well at Friday, 5 p.m. Central European Time. Since 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. 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