@hgeifman I imagine there will be a follow up once the event is over. One of the recent Speakerfest attendees did a great write up after the event with impressions of the various speakers.
DAC Event in Phoenix AZ August 24th
Hi Folks,
For those curious about DACs, the Arizona AV Club is partnering with a number of manufactures and dealers to produce a Dac shootout on Saturday August 24th 11am to 3pm. The event will be held at Acoustic Designs 16074 N. 78th Street, Suite B104, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
The following dacs will be present:
If you have any interest in hearing well regarded dacs on a top tier system don't miss this event! There is a $10 entry fee. RSVPs are appreciated due to limited seating; multiple sessions will be available. There will also be a speaker from Chord present to talk about their technology.
More information here: www.AZAVCLUB.COM or PM me.
For those curious about DACs, the Arizona AV Club is partnering with a number of manufactures and dealers to produce a Dac shootout on Saturday August 24th 11am to 3pm. The event will be held at Acoustic Designs 16074 N. 78th Street, Suite B104, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
The following dacs will be present:
- Schiit Yggdrasil
- Chord Hugo TT + M Scaler
- Benchmark DAC3
- iFi Audio Pro iDSD
- PS Audio DirectStream
- Holo Audio Spring DAC2
- Jolida Glass FX DAC
- NuPrime Evolution DAC
- L.K.S. DAC MH-DA004
- Line Magnetic
If you have any interest in hearing well regarded dacs on a top tier system don't miss this event! There is a $10 entry fee. RSVPs are appreciated due to limited seating; multiple sessions will be available. There will also be a speaker from Chord present to talk about their technology.
More information here: www.AZAVCLUB.COM or PM me.
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update: A cadre from Chord will now be present bringing with them an
assortment of gear from their line. They will be set up in a couple of
additional demo rooms and free to talk about their line and audio
technology in general. If you are in the Phoenix area don't miss this
opportunity to listen to an assortment of exceptional dacs and some top tier
systems!
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Hi Folks, Just a reminder the event is happening this Saturday! There is still plenty of room for anyone interested in attending. As mentioned above, there will be a second demo system showcasing Chord equipment. This system will consist of a Hugo TT2, Hugo MScaler, CPA 3000 pre-amp, and a pair of SPM 6000MKII amps driving a set of B&W 803D3s. |
Write up on our webpage is live in the center column: www.AZAVCLUB.COM TLDR; Session 1) First Place = Chord Qutest Second Place (tie) = Holo Audio Spring DAC2 and NuPrime Evolution DAC Session 2) First Place = Schiit Yggdrasil Second Place = iFi Audio Pro iDSD Third Place = Benchmark DAC3
Session 3) First Place = Black Ice Audio Glass FX DSD Second Place = LKS MH-DA004 Third Place = PS Audio Direcstream DAC
Session 4) Finals: First Place = Black Ice Audio Glass FX DSD Second Place = Chord Qutest Third Place = Schiit Yggdrasil The Format: All dacs were fed the same source simultaneously via optical input from an optical splitter fed from the cd player. A professional recording engineer and myself spent the day before setting up and level matching all the dacs. For each listening session we played five test tracks from all different genres of music using high quality recordings. We cycled through the dacs using the various preamp inputs for a seamless transition during each test track with each dac playing for 10-30 seconds at a time with several transitions within each track.
Listeners knew which dacs were present in each bracket but not which dac was playing at a given time other than if it was dac A, B, or C. Votes were tallied at the end of each session and only afterward were the dacs unveiled as belonging to one of the given inputs (A, B,or C). Not even I, who set up the dacs knew which one was which until the unveiling. Participants then discussed why they liked a given dac and we discussed the dacs technology and feature set. The event took place in a room custom built to showcase home theater design and thus was very well treated. The system consisted of:
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@audionoobie, Black Ice sells through dealers as far as I know. Underwood Hifi is one of them. For the event, I just contacted them directly via the website information. @toneranger58 , the test tracks are not listed anywhere. I am going to see if we can get them listed on our webpage somewhere. Off the top of my head some of them were:
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