Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there?

My experience is the same as Jtinn's.

Stanhifi,

..."Vinyl still kicks the snot out of bits and bytes".....

The above is no longer the case, and I am talking about cost no object vinyl. :-)

Happy Holidays to you too!

Regards,
Alex

Stanhifi, how can say that if you have not heard the NWO-1? Are you coming to the CES show by any chance? If so, please plan on dropping by my room. Then we will discuss this again.

Regards,
Alex

Jfz, this is correct for most of the posts around online forums. Please see your email.

Regards,
Alex

Stanhifi, the DACs in my "latest toy" see constant 5.4MHz bit rate regardless of the format played. The output of the DACs looks like a perfect analog wave form, even with 44.1KHz/16bit regular CD.

I am sure that you will not believe a word from what I say, but let me re-assure you that your vinyl setup will be embarrassed on A-B test. There is some audiophile Vinyl and also CD, SACD and DVD-A recorded from the same analog master. We can always use those for the test.

As suggested above, EMM Labs gear will also give you vinyl a REALLY hard time as it is, reportedly, very close sounding to almost $85K (or more) cost no object vinyl setup, especially with SACD.

I think it is time for you to audition before throwing out blind statements.

Regards,
Alex

MikeL, Thank you for the invitation! I've never heard your vinyl setup, but I am sure it is really great.

I am sorry to say, but it would be impossible to visit you before the CES show in January, so please accept my invitation and visit us at T.H.E Show.

Do you have any type of stand alone CD Recorder (Pioneer for example?) If you don't, I can send you mine and some black CD-R discs. Would you mind to record your best sounding vinyl directly from your phono stage to the CD Recorder and bring the CD-R to my room at T.H.E Show?

Regards,
Alex

Bookner, Mikelavigne visited me at CES. I played the promised DVD-A made directly from $25K vinyl setup for him. He agreed that it was exactly as the vinyl was playing there with no sign of digital or negative artifacts.

I will soon take advantage of his generous invitation and visit him with my DVD-A recording suite and my Digital Front end. There will be two objectives:

1. To see if 96KHz/24bit recording out of his vinyl setup will sound the same on A-B test.

2. To see how his EMM Labs gear will do against my re-engineered Esoteric UX-1. Well, actually, I already know the answer to this question since we already had an A-B test with the latest EMM Labs gear and the UX-1 at a local audiophile's house last weekend.

Stay tuned!

Alex

Muratc, it is not mods, it is re-design. I am just using the VRDS-NEO transport which happens to be light years advanced. :-)

"Wow, quite a few mods... Who does it?"

Me.

Regards,
Alex

Muratc,

The re-engineered UX-1 has the following done to it so these are the differences with the original:

1. Heavily upgraded original power supply. Another (third) R-Core power transformer added with 16 additional linear power supplies/regulators.

2. Heavily upgraded and re-designed Digital Signal Processing board with completely new own designed Master Clock, signal routing, new passive components and new DSD to PCM converter working at 176.4KHz/24bit. The original uses older chip working at 88.2KHz/24bit DSD to PCM conversion. Please note that the DA Converter chips I am using are capable of direct DSD processing, but it did not bring as good results compared to DSD to PCM conversion, sorry to say.

3. World's first 211KHz/32bit Upsampling with second Master Clock. The DACs are “seeing” 211KHz/bit at all times regardless of what format is played.

4. Industry's first implementation of the flagship DAC chips by AKM of Japan. There are 10 DACs per channel for extremely low noise and distortions.

5. Unique Hybrid Attenuator with 0.5db step and remote control. This eliminates the need of a preamp if Digital is the only source.

6. Transformer coupled Class "A" tube output stage using the 6H30 super triodes. Custom output transformers made by Lundahl.

It is hard to explain what it does better than a standard UX-1. It is totally different in every respect; there is no sign of the original UX-1 sound. You really need to hear it in order to understand and believe what it is. This is the reason we have named it NWO-1.

Please note that although the Video capabilities are preserved, the Multichannel outputs are removed. It becomes Stereo only. Of course, the digital output can be connected to an external processor for Dolby and DTS decoding which ensures Multichannel DVD Video.

Regards,
Alex