Experience with Metrum Octave DAC

Suppose to ship Feb 19; I would be tearing my hair out if I had any. The Canadian distributer is selling them for about what the factory charges so if I had waited I could have got one faster but they were saying that the price would go up after the first of the year; it didn't , which is good news. I ordered mine in mid Dec. so 8 weeks more or less between ordering and shipping. Looking forward with great interest; have two good dacs but the Metrum is suppose to be in a totally different class. Makes some other dacs look way overpriced if it is half as good as reviews say; will post a review when it gets here and it breaks in a little and I can have the local audio group weigh in after listening.

I saw an ad on here from the Canadian agent for a new one and assumed it would be a more or less permanent offer. It isn't up anymore so ??? You might get his address from the Metrum site. Still waiting on mine.

Mine came today. Right out of the box the best digital I have had.

From Dec 16th I think so just about 8. I am using MIGs under mine and they make a considerable difference. Well worth the wait IMHO.

MIGs are Synergistic Research's vibration control devices. They are stainless steel hollow half spheres. They have a round side and a flat one and the combination you use can sound quite different. I have used a fair variety of different devices of this type and , FOR MY EARS, these are the best I have used and I have a set under all my gear. But absolutely every one I have used is better than the stock rubber feet that come with most units. I recently had lunch with an engineer friend,while we were eating he made fun of vibration devices as snake oil. But afterward when we went to another friends house and I put a set of Ceraballs under his turntable he heard the difference immediately.

I am using a Transparent Reference digital cable from my Meridian 200 transport; my only digital source are CDs.

MIGs are Synergistic Research's vibration control devices. They are stainless steel hollow half spheres. They have a round side and a flat one and the combination you use can sound quite different. I have used a fair variety of different devices of this type and , FOR MY EARS, these are the best I have used and I have a set under all my gear. But absolutely every one I have used is better than the stock rubber feet that come with most units. I recently had lunch with an engineer friend,while we were eating he made fun of vibration devices as snake oil. But afterward when we went to another friends house and I put a set of Ceraballs under his turntable he heard the difference immediately.

All the DACs I have used are sensitive to transport used; I use a Meridian 200 with Transparent Reference digital cable; the cable has a list price about 50% above the Metrum.