Owners of "Giant Killers"?

Grant,

After letting my system lie dormant for over two months and being away from Audiogon for the same amount of time, I just inserted the $499 Audio Mirror D1 DAC into my system this past weekend. I haven't compared it to more expensive or well regarded DACs like those from Audio Logic, Audio Note or the like [I don't really own a "giant" DAC, more like a "tall" one], but I may be nominating a candidate for the GK club soon.

Dean

All you non-Asians can get with Q-tips and vaseline, but us rice-eaters from the Great Wall of China gotta go with the handy dandy 47 Labs Mimi-Kaki.

I hope this doesn't start one of those Ear Candling discussions again.

Marco, when did you start posing for University of Washington Life Drawing classes? You look sexy with a beard and a toga.

Marko455, the Ack! Dack! 2.0 is one of the three DACs I've been comparing and it took the bronze medal. Maybe my littler Audio Mirror D1 haad a better sling. Or a harder stone. :•)

Mghcanuck and Marko455,

I need to make an apology for insinuating that the Ack! wasn't a good DAC. After rereading my post I'm afraid my humor didn't come through the way I intended and it seemed like I was gloating. Not a very constructive post by me. I'm sorry.

I'd been changing other components at the same time and found a combination that I liked a lot. And I was even more surprised to find that I preferred the cheapest DAC of them all. The Audio Mirror D1. The preamp and amp in my listed virtual system are now the eXemplar Exception II and Bel Canto SET40, and the balance of the Audio Mirror seems to work best for me with these new components.

So in the end, my long time Kora Hermes took the silver. But now all this swapping, listening and testing has me thinking of getting a player like Tvad's. This is madness!

Mghcanuck,

Yeah the Theta is still there. But, Tvad and Boa2 got me thinking of the APL Denon.