Supermod for Meitner Bidat

I wish I could be so enthusiastic about the Art DI/O....but I didn't have that kind of experience. I succumbed to the hype and bought one. I replaced the weird jacks with RCAs, and then used very good interconnects. I then compared it to my Audiomeca Enkianthus. Good for the money (cheap!), but the Enkianthus smoked it. The DI/O sounds good until things get a little busy. Suddenly all of your images are homogenized with little or no separation. My system is very similar to Vtvu's, except that I use an RDP-1 digital DAC to provide volume and a Joule Electra OTL with the Merlin Millenium speakers. From my experience with cheap digital, melding images together is exactly what it does. My CEC TL51 and Musical Fidelity X-Ray did much better than the DI/O did hooked up to a mega-buck transport with megabuck digital cables. I then used the DI/O to build a small system for my ex-wife, and that's where it remains. I wish good digital could be that inexpensive.
I also had a Meitner Super Bidat about 4 DACs ago. It was great in it's day, but there are much better DACs out there now. I compared it to the 24/96 Electrocompaniet EMC-1, and sold it. The new DACs have so much more information with the upsampling process. It's just no contest.

I repeat, finest sound I have ever heard. I don't know what jacks you used or how you went about it, but I do know it is sensitive to the RCA's selected and the how they are installed. Either way, (TgRaffair) I suggest you try it. I have found it to be better than all the mega-dollar dacs I have heard (including SACD), and I can afford what I want. Paul Stubblebine having having mastered numerous platinum, gold and Grammy® Award-winning albums in the last 25 years got rid of about 16 very expensive dacs, Pacific Microsonics ($23K) and others too numerous to mention and replaced them with 16 DIO's. I found out about his use of the DIO's long after I had discovered it.

Mike

Glreno: I don't owe DIO but I had extensive experience with equipment where power supply is cheap junk to be plugged into wall. When music became more complex, exactly as you describe, power supply always failed. I firmly believe, this is what you have. If I would own DIO, the first thing I would build (or ask someone, say Stan Warren from Supermod to build it for me) dedicated power supply with IEC so I could use good power cord as well.

Already done for you... Go to Radio Shack and order the 9VAC 3400ma powersupply for $30.00. It makes a huge difference.

Mike