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    Apr 12, 2022 5 minutes
    —John Atkinson

    tested the Burmester 151 Musiccenter MK2 with my Audio Precision SYS2722 system, controlling it with the Burmester app on the included iPad mini. (After I connected the Musiccenter to my network, the iPad app communicated with it via Wi-Fi.) I used coaxial and optical S/PDIF data, test CDs, and WAV files on a USB stick inserted into one of the rear Type A USB ports. (The Burmester was set to recognize USB files automatically and switched the app to the appropriate Player page when I plugged in the USB stick.) The volume can be set to Variable, with a choice of four maximum levels, or to Fixed, with or without Volume Normalization. JVS used the latter setting for most of his auditioning, with 192kHz upsampling, so

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