Audio Aero Prima Dac

FWIW, I just heard a modded Benchmark DAC1 in A/B comparison with a $22K Goldmund CD player in the Talon Demo at T.H.E. Show Conference Room 3 and was quite impressed. To my ears, it provided a more balanced and musical sound than the Goldmund player with its built-in DAC.

Yes, it is. Try doing a search is discussion forums on Audio Aero. Decide for yourself.

Goldmund does not make a 22k cd player(only transports which is 16k and 25k respectively),so what ever you heard from Goldmund was either the Eidos 18 universal player,,or more likely the entry level SRDVD universal player.

Nealhood, I posted a question on this dac a few weeks back and never got a response. I am still waiting for my "lost" ? literature to arrive in the mail. I wish an owner or two would come forth with any or as much imfo as possible to settle my curiosity. I wish to try it with my CEC transport and compare its sound with a couple other tube dacs. I've been told they're on back order ? How long, in this millenium ?
Lost in the dark here...................

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The benchmark DAC was highly modded ($2K) to get it to beat the Goldmun, by Refelction Audio so you were not hearing a stock unit.

Happy Listening.

No wonder why that Benchmark dac sounded so good. I was in the room when they A/Bed it to the Goldmund. The Benchmark with these mods sounded unbelievable.

Neilhood wants to know about the Audio Aero Prima, not the Benchmark.

the Prima DAC is exactly the same DAC use in the Capitole with the same mini-tubes volume control préamp !
Be carefull, you always hear the sound of the Anagram DAC with the included tube préamp ! and the DAC alone is far better as in the Orpheus One Anagram DAC .
Regards from France