On my system, wire changes cause major shifts in presentation. That said, OS and NOS differences, being active, exhibit night and day differences.
One visiting fellow, interested in buying my second pair of Scintillas, wrote me afterwards,
"Listening to the Scintilla and your DAC was a revelation."
The potential buyer brought some big tube output SACD player, an OS machine, to be sure.
Like all other OS pretenders before it, the oversampling behaved horribly, as I knew it would. Notes were simplified, decay shortened, stage is crimped. and tonality was thin.
The NOS, on the same passage, provided deep detail, great tonality, and endless decay.
One visiting fellow, interested in buying my second pair of Scintillas, wrote me afterwards,
"Listening to the Scintilla and your DAC was a revelation."
The potential buyer brought some big tube output SACD player, an OS machine, to be sure.
Like all other OS pretenders before it, the oversampling behaved horribly, as I knew it would. Notes were simplified, decay shortened, stage is crimped. and tonality was thin.
The NOS, on the same passage, provided deep detail, great tonality, and endless decay.