Sony HAP-Z1ES or NAD M51?


I have squeezebox touch feeding a benchmark DAC1 to Nait-5i to Harbeth C7.

Have the upgrade fever and looking to upgrade DAC.

Hearing good things about the Sony device. Any recommendations between the Sony and NAD purely from a sound quality perspective?

Thanks!
rmata

Showing 1 response by knghifi

JazzontheH: Where did you get your power supply upgrade for the touch? May be the cheapest solution to upgrade fever :-)
I use a Touch digital out to my DAC for internet radio. I replaced the SPS with a Channel Island VDC-5 MKII linear power supply.

http://ciaudio.com/products/VDC5MKII

The sound improved but never realized the SPS was polluting my system with noise. Even when the Touch was off, NOT playing, SQ improved. As you know, Touch is never totally off even when not in used/playing.

My advice, dump/replace all the SPSs in your system.