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My Denafrips Aries 15th has too much mid -bass, anybody else??

Hey guys, so after hearing so many wonderful things about the dinner fripps Dax I purchased in Aries too quickly sold that way too much mid base very thick not to my liking. Had a chance to step up to the Aries 15th as the reviews had it cleaned up a lot of that middle. Unfortunately I found pretty much the same thing maybe a hair better. Ive tried both nos/ os and not much difference so i dont know what else i can do. Is anybody else experiencing this with their systems? I'm a shocked that it have not experienced the system transformation ive heard so much about. I run a Sony hap Z1es and the internal dac sounds much punchier/ cleaner than the 15th. The rest of my modest system is Belles Aria integrated, Vapor Audio Cirrus speakers and Martin Logan 600x. Sub Thanks for your thoughts

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@mm1tt77 

Comments on the design difference between DAC’s are spot on, R2R will have a very different sound signature vs those with newer chip designs

Are you getting confused between the old resistance ladder designs and the much later R2R technology?  What DAC chip designs are newer than R2R?

I mostly listen to SACD and to me the most important thing about a DAC is that it natively handles Direct Stream Digital, which in theory means it just needs a low pass filter.  Each successive bit just says shift the output level up or down one.  No resistance ladder or R2R needed except when decoding Pulse Code Modulated input.

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