Good luck with it. I really came to dislike mine. Good thing that C-J is just across the river from me, because I made the trip often enough. I had the DR-1 transport too. It refused to play roughly 5% of my CDs. Getting that pair -- I bought them new, at $3,700 -- was probably my biggest audio mistake. Beautiful looking, though.
Conrad Johnson DA2b
I just got one of these and it is a really great sounding DAC. All the info I have found on forums and what not have been from people that have used it with the DR-1 transport and not with modern music servers. I do not have a DR-1 transport, but I have used this DAC with Apple TV and with a Squeezebox duet and I think it sounds quite nice. There is plenty of air and it handles transients quite well. It handles dynamic classical pieces with ease. Transitions show no harshness and instruments sound as they should. Folk music is broad and rich and rock music is full of detail and without harshness. This one has the original GE tubes, but I have some Mullards on the way.
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