I look forward to hearing of your evaluation of the Meitner. Right now I'm planning on auditioning 1 or 2 dacs at the Bricasti M3 price point (with network card) and one from the higher price point (Weiss or Meitner) to see the increased cost is worth it to me.
Upgrading my Auralic Vega G1 streaming dac
I am looking to upgrade my Auralic Vega G1 streaming dac and am considering the following:
Auralic Vega G2.1
Bricasti M3 (with network card)
Exasound S82
Meitner MA3
Weiss Dac501
I would be using the ethernet input, not USB, and will be keeping my Zesto Leto 1.5 linestage so the new dac/streamer would not be serving as a preamp or volume control. MQA and headphone amp are not important to me, but dsd performance is. I can live without DSD256 or 512.
Has anyone had the opportunity to audition and compare any of the above? I would like to narrow the list down to 2 or 3 before bringing them into my system for home audition.
In addition to the Zesto linestage, the rest of my system consists of a Sonictransporter i5 server, Aesthetix Atlas Eclipse amp, and MG 3.7i speakers