Yamamoto YDA 01 DAC

I would be interested to know how the Metrum compares without a low jitter stream and without upsampling – not that I would be opposed to purchasing something like the Empirical Pase Car, but even that doesn’t upsample.

So if anyone has comments…thanks.

Briang,

I think the upsampling would be best done at the computer, then sent to the Metrum. An option for upsampling out of a CD player could be an Esoteric G25. Over at computeraudiophile a member has been trying with upsampling at the computer and he claims it is an awesome DAC.

Maybe you are asking how would the sound be with a 16/44.1 feed from a CD player. I am wondering about that too.

I myself, am very much looking forward to Charles1dad experience with it.

I got an email from Cees regarding my Metrum Octave. He shipped it out last week,I tracked it and it`s just sitting in customs waiting to be cleared. Hope to have it relatively soon.

Got my Metrum Octave yesterday and compared it cold out of the box with my benchmark DAC1. The Octave is a glass of red wine, whereas the benchmark's more like a gin tonic. Soundstage opens up considerably vertically and horizontically but not so much in depth, bass is deeper (!) but less defined, sometimes even a bit one-note, midrange sounds lovely natural and voluminous, treble is still a bit nondescript like pink noise but that's very much exagerated from my side. Detail seems even better than from the benchmark which might be a function of the Metrums ability to reproduce timbres. The differences are certainly more pronounced than I anticipated.

Most importantly, it's already very enjoyable

Hope that helps

Staehli,
Thanks for the very early impressions. Cees said initial sound is bright,and it needs about 3 weeks to settle in.I`m still waiting for my delivery. How long was your waiting period?

I`m really looking forward to the natural tone and timbre that 6moons touted. It seems already you`ve noted high level detail/resolution, that`s encouraging.