Any better DAC then dCS Scarlatti?

OK Alex,

Scotch and top end DAC shoot out, sounds amazing, but I'd bring something a little more up to the situation like the 25 y/o Talisker or 21 Balvenie instead of Lagavulin, but then again, we might disagree on our preference in DACs too! I'd love to hear the NWO in a controlled situation, and would gladly put my EMM Labs combo into the mix!

Rainer, I'll fly from Russia for this comparision!!!
Let me know the date!
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I'd love to be there too!

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Dear all,

yes this sounds great! Lets proceed and make this comparison.

There were some questions regarding the system.

Lets start with the room. It is 5,12 m width, 6,98 m long and 2,8 m height. This gives a fairly good distribution of room modes. The entire room was build from scratch just to serve as listening room.
Room acoustic (RT 60) is really flat at 0,38 s (not overdamped) in all third octave bands. Only below 50 Hz the reverberation time increases to 0.8 s.
There is a lot of diffusors included. Some are QRD types (based on the prime number 7). A very special plain 2D diffusor is located behing the speaker.

Powerline: Oyaide Distribution block, Vertex AQ coming soon
Powercables, IC, Speakercables: Echole Obsession and Vertex AQ soon
Rack: Special rack made from tankwood (similar to our speaker cabinet)

Tube Amps: Absolare Pure Preamp and Mastersound 845 Monoblock Signature Edition (highly tweaked)

Solid State Amp: GTE Trinity AMP
This amp outperforms the Mastersound easily. It has balanced inputs. So I would prefer to use this amp directly without any preamp.

Harmonix, Vertex AQ and Steinmusic Tuning Feets
7 Lessloss Blackbodies
2 Steinmusic H2a and 2 Steinmusic H2b (see stereotimes for review)
Steinmusic E-Pads and Magic Stones.

Kaiser Kawero Speaker (with some new additional features we are just testing)

PC Frontend with xxhighend memory software player (www.xxhighend.nl)
Weiss Vesta Firewire to SP/DIF converter
M2Tech Hiface USB to SP/DIF converter

and a good turntable (Kuzma Stabi XL4 with 4 point arm)

I will check my schedule and appointments but I think we are not able to perform this before High end show in Munich.

A good friend is willing to send a burned in DCS Scarlatti for that event.

Best regards

Rainer Weber

Great system!
I can bring also LynxAES16 system to compare with USB and FireWire interface system. I have very special setup with separate power and optical PCI connection for card which outperforms any other source I've ever heard.
Quality of source is so much important to compare great DACs!!!