How is Wadia with fast dynamic music ?

Krell is Hard sounding and the will just make most Heavy metal annoying if you wanna good example of fast and heavy, fatigue is always the first word that comes to my mind, Wadia is far more deep and smooth, very in your face dynamic however, but My experiance is with the older true 16 bit machines, all newer 24/96's seem to carry some digital glare with them and this could be the issue with newer wadia's for all I know. Get a Wadia if you want the best Algorythm out there with the digimaster system and just have the analog stage upgraded. Also there are a few Metronome Players which are tube that are very nice on this site for around 1000.00, don't get caught in the hype.

Here is a good thread, and it is very recent on Audiogon very similar players, with auditioning in one spot, I still go Wadia.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1134471156&read&3&4&

Saki70, Also to be honest a Great approch at this would be Pick up the Audio mirror new version 16 bit non-oversample model, it kills all your hi end dac's it is about 1000.00 new, get a sweet transport and you still have tubes, it is very highly reviewed on all the sites as well, Audiogon, Audioreview..

Audiomirror.com

And I was just giving an example that if you can smooth out heavy metal just about anything will play with little to no fatigue, I listen to tons of Classic rock, bright recordings like Bowie, sabbath and things that need some finesse.

The Wadia 23, and I believe the 21, probably the 850? From the mid 90's mostly I believe.

Misskuma, well you would have more insight I have only heard other krells, however I own upgraded Wadia's with the best analog components you can get, so is it better who knows?, but digital sounds as analog as a player gets with dynamic punch in my case with this player. I have little experiance with the Metronome but heard a real nice player from them, its cheap and worth a shot to at least give Saki70 a basis on what direction to go, I agree however on the repair issue's that could approch.
Beyond that I understand if the krell is your choice, however this thread is for 2000.00 used, not 4000.00. So pushing apples or oranges will be Saki70's choice here to extend the budget to double in order to pick up a krell of that cost. So I will agree on this, for 2000.00 you will get a lot more wadia player than krell at that point, okay with that?

Cenline, I think those are in fact a different system in those modded units of the French like you say, vs. the Digimaster, I would put all my money on Wadia in a shootout either way.

Take a look at this thread again, Wadia impression is almost unforgetable, I have been told this by many that have heard my sound, they always remember vs. other systems that memory seems to forget more so.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1134471156&read&3&4&