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dac recommendations for turntable listener?

hi everyone, kindly asking for your dac suggestions. im almost 100% a turntable listener, but recently picked up a DirectStream Dac for those times I cant find the vinyl, its too expensive, or it simply doesn't exist. im looking for suggestions as im not happy with the DirectStream dac, its just not to my liking. its too sharp up top, too thin in the lower midrange, other than that everything else is pretty great. id like to get, if possible, a dac that sounds more like my turntable. I feel like I would get mostly there if the midrange was fuller, and the top end was softer. 

my current system is marantz tt15 , dynavector 20x2, icon audio ps3 mk ii, primaluna prologue premium, and elysian 4 speakers. 

the current dacs I was looking to switch to were lab 12 dac, primaluna evo 100 dac, lampizators entry model, or Merason DAC 1. does anyone have experience with these and can recommend them? 

thanks a lot! 

Anthony 

palutena

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we have had the lab 12in house it is very warm and lacks resolution

just looked at the Mearson it doesn’t have USB so it cant handle high resolution files so I would also pass on that one,

the lampis are excellent sounding.

 

We would recommend you look at the Aqua hifi Lascala:

It is very musical, tube based: and r2r so very analog like.

plays all high resolution files.

the dac is built on a modular, upgradable, platform so as technology improves the dac can improve as well

 

Dave and Troy

audio Intellect NJ

Aqua Hifi dealers

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