DAC suggestions?


Hello!

I’m looking for a new DAC suggestion for my 2.1 office room set up. The room is 12x11 ft with a 10 ft ceiling.  The EverSolo DMP-A8 seems interesting.  Currently, I have the following:

Rotel CD14 (Water 1m RCA cable)

Michi X3 (Audioquest Thunder 2m Power cable)

Rel T/9X (Rocket 88 3m Rel Sub cable)

Sonus Faber Sonetto V Walnut (William Tell Zero 12ft Speaker cable)

iMac, using Roon and Tidal (USB B 1.5m Carbon cable)

I listen to jazz and RnB mostly and prefer a warmer sound. I’m happy with my current setup but feel adding a DAC and digital streamer would be nice versus going through my iMac.  Thank you so much for your time.

wisemenofgotham

Showing 1 response by phusis

The NuPrime Evolution DAC-2 - that hardly anybody around seem to know (or care?) about/have experience with - is an excellent D/A-converter/preamp. When fully run-in (and it easily needs 200-300 hours to settle in, sounding closed-in and "woolen" between ~75-135 hours in particular) I found it to be the better DAC compared to a fully updated 2018 Bricasti M1 and comparing overall equally to a Weiss DAC-1 MkIII. It's that good (and for the price, ~$3.5k, it's close to a downright steal). 

"Better" to some is different to others, but the resolving capabilities, transparency, analogue imprinting and dynamic prowess of the NuPrime are unquestionably better than the Bricasti, and the former by no means is a details-first presenter. The Weiss in particular has a midrange to die for, but arguably it's also ever so slightly too pronounced compared to the NuPrime (system/speaker dependent?), that to my ears has a more balanced, getting-out-of-the-way approach and better low end to boot. Make no mistake though, the Weiss is a great DAC.