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| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Interesting thread. I found my destination digital with the Aries Cerat Kassandra DAC. No up sampling, no filter, and using 16 x AD1865 NK chips. Huge power supplies, tube out (10v) I/V transformers, and huge output transformers. It weights 67 kil... | |
| DCS Vivaldi stacks vs Esoteric Grandioso G1, D1, P1 stacks Hmm, I have heard the K01 CDP/DAC combo player, and it didn’t impress me. It was owned by a buddy of mine, and I heard it at his place on 3 day long sessions. Believe it or not, he sold it for a huge loss and bought the Yggy DAC, which he likes mu... | |
| Solid state DAC under 12K retail preferably with ethernet Sorry for the misunderstanding. For comparison I used the N 10 fed into the Empirical Audio Overdrive SX (using a Stealth Varig 16 coaxial cable). At that time my regular set up was the mac mini/berkeley alpha fed into the overdrive sx. For se... | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? I prefer the direct connection with my Audio Note DAC 5. It feeds my Plinius SS power amplifier via a passive pre. The line stage in my DAC is basically the Audio Note M6 pre-amplifier line stage and power supply, so no point in doubling up gain. ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I would love to hear the Areas Cerat Kassandre DAC as the design of it appeals to me. Sadly no dealers near me in the UK. Anyone here heard it? | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I might chime in, I use the Rednet 3 with a (modded) internal linear power supply. Mac Mini with Uptone Audio 12V DC board mod, and send data via 1000 BaseT Ethernet to the Rednet. Then AES or SPDIF to my DAC. Beats th epants of any USB chain I ha... | |
| Anybody have an ANK (Audio Note Kit) DAC? TommylionI build 3 ANK Kit DACs, the 1.1, 3.1 and the 4.1. The 4.1 was heavily modded with all sort of AN stuff. PM me if you are interested in what I did. The 5.1 kit is a great machine, sounds marvellous out of the box.The 5.1 came out after a y... | |
| Advice on best upgrade path for a Mac Mini setup A Mac Mini with the Uptone Audio board mod to 12V DC is worth the effort for sure. Then add SSD, more memory and power it from a decent LPS. Take out everything that is not needed, turn all software off that is not required. Turn off Bliuetooth an... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? I think AOIP (audio over ethernet) is the biggie here. USB is simply terrible for audio period! I have found at my cost it is the big bottleneck to PC audio. Look at a RedNet 3 and feed it from a decent optimised PC or Mac and you are done. Beats ... | |
| Naim UnitiServe - is it as good as a good CDP?? Not sure about some of the above. I heavily modded my Mac Mini with 12V board, linear power supply and SSD, and using Audrvana+ and a full M2 Tech EVO stack inc clock and it's own linear supply it sounds fantastic. No treble edge, lots of full mid... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective In the shootout, I thought the 4.1 was really the sweetspot. It was considerably better than the 3.1, and only slightly less resolving and detailed than the 5 Special (at significantly lower price). Interesting indeed, thank you! So maybe my twea... | |
| Zingali Overture series thumbs "up" or "down" I can say the Zingali speakers are fantastic. I used to run my Overture 2s with Audio Note 300B SETs but now have a Plinius SA-103 125W Class A. They are fast, deep, dynamic and very detailed yet smooth with a good source. They have magic midrange... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Waking up this (interesting) thread. Anyone heard the Discrete TotalDAC units? I have buddies who rave about these DACs sounding so smooth and natural and I have heard the TotalDAC Dual in another system and it was damb good, couldn't fault it. It... | |
| Response Audio / Audio Note custom DAC GratefulYou still have that AN DAC 3.1 kit (upgraded)? I too have a 4.1 kit that I have maxed out. Basically did the same as you but also got hold of a DAC 5 UK digital board (lot better) and then upgraded the caps in the PS for AN Kassai's. Also ... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ You tried a good Non Oversamplng DAC yet? I have found that is the best Digital path for me being a Tube lover and from Vinyl background.I got fed up with searching the Delta Sigma clones and Oversampling architecture. I get real world Redbook aud... |