I just wanted to say a few words here after having and selling my Denafrips Pontus 2
and Venus 2 dacs very good value from China I was Going to buy Their Terminator ,or
Holosprings May KTE ,they have tons of write ups and I assumed cheaper labor Mandy many of us,old school look at the size power supplies and weight 40 lbs for a $5k dac and many capacitors.
my go to dealer on the East coast Perrotta consultants great advise and fair pricing.I spoke with stated before doing anything
Bricasti is cutting edge ,they are well know in the Recording studios for mastering ,check out
the Latest M3 with digital board . Which I did ,and found out it has tons of trickle down technologies
from their M1 dac as well as flag ship M21 ,exact same Analog preamp ,as good as any $6k.preamp out there,or just bypass it , which I am doing , my Coda CSIB as well as M3 dac with streamer is totally
Differentially balanced. Sonicly sounds better forsure xlr .It has the same separate 1 bit DSD section , and the Classic Dual analog devises
1955 laser trimmed multi bit dacs I went to Bricasti and got a tour a great setup everything machined in house custom circuit boards made in New England made in MA,USA , they stated and I quote with the use of FETs and dualAD shark processors ,let technologies do the work,all these FPGA units just change the source signal . Capacitors use only where necessary, and the $1k streamer Roon end point
is a gift this sound is on another level. Their too dacs use still points ,I followed suit,as well as for the Ethernet the Uptone Ether Regen a great add on to truly clear your digital signal ,Teajay was spot on a great piece of engineering ,and award winner 2020 !! Well worth checking out very natural sounding and highly detailed,use minimum filter for best results and runin 350 hours.
https://www.avshowrooms.com/2020-annual-gold-awards-products-of-the-year.html