Pro vs. Consumer Equipment

WE also compared it to the $23K pacific microsonics pro dac. The dio literally destroyed it. Price does not always dictate performance. Also, generalizations about bias points and the such are of little interest to me unless I am in my lab designing gear. If something sounds great, it sounds great. I have yet to look at an oscope see a reading and go aha!!! great sound right before my eyes. I guess I am saying is the ear tells all. Give it a listen.

Don

It's gone. They gave me some lame excuse for removing it. Sean all i can say is that you should audition the amp. As far as the DIO, I don't know your' likes or dislikes or if you ever heard the unit, but it murdered my former Sony SCD-1. And all the other high end gear I compared it to: Linn CD12, Accuphase DP100/DP101 combo, Elgar gear. There were a lot more comparisons, but I think that the gear I listed above sums up that I have been exposed to some of the so-called best high-end gear around.

Best regards,
d911

I have no problem with this. I just need some way to track it. There are obviously people who form opionins about gear they have not yet heard on this site, I won't allow it to go to any of them. If someone suggests a way I can track the unit and hold the current holder of the unit financially responsable...I say lets go for it.

Regards,
Don

Albert I know you prefer analog. I also know your system is completley optimized to make your LP playback sound decent. I am not surprised that you would say this. I have owned some very fine digital gear and to my ears (and to my dismay) the DIO beat the snot of everything I ever put against it. I don't know if you guys had stock or moded units (if moded, who did it...etc). Stock units are I admit hard sounding, hence the mod process, change the opamp, remove the tube, and voltage quadruppler, remove the back board with the coupling caps. remove the Voltage regu, remove some of the electrolytic caps, replace the steel pins with copper posts...etc. The unit still sounds better stock than most things out there.
However, I must add we all like what we like.
Regards,
Don

Albert I believe you. Every mod is not equal. This sharing of the minds and experience is, however, what makes this hobby as fun as it is. It is also, unfortunately what has caused me to porbably spend close to a hundred grand in gear over the last 5 years :)

Best regards,

Don

Bare with me for a moment. I want to take a moment to flat out APOLOGIZE. I have behaved badly to say the least. Though zealous, I could have and should have presented myself in a more forthcoming manner. I accept the responsibility of my action and I throw myself on the mercy of the "forum tribunal", all kidding aside, I really do apologize to the audio community at large.

Best regards,
d911

PS> I will be posting this apology on all sites affected.