the Consonance Reference 2.2 I picked one up for $800
had replaced the generic opamp with the superb descreet Burson modules which destroy the good opa627 s, or anythng else, + the Trichord dac 4wordclock and their superb never connected power supplys and regulators. I had Graham at Trichord put his 20 years in digital to work .He built custom high speed bridge rectifiers, all the best caps Rubicon, oscon ,panasonics , many Bybee purifiers,all audionote silver wire, hifi tuning silver fuses ,ers tuning sheets,and about 10 others tweaks .including the machine my total investment was $2300.00 and It destroys Any machine at 4x this .please remember as good a machine you think you have like my freind with his Esoteric 3se the parts are decent not anywhere near the best possible ,no company can afford this practice less than 25% of your total is actually in parts on any New equipment you buy ,
that is a fact. This is the most logical way to build a super cd player ,and the stock droplet is not even close!
had replaced the generic opamp with the superb descreet Burson modules which destroy the good opa627 s, or anythng else, + the Trichord dac 4wordclock and their superb never connected power supplys and regulators. I had Graham at Trichord put his 20 years in digital to work .He built custom high speed bridge rectifiers, all the best caps Rubicon, oscon ,panasonics , many Bybee purifiers,all audionote silver wire, hifi tuning silver fuses ,ers tuning sheets,and about 10 others tweaks .including the machine my total investment was $2300.00 and It destroys Any machine at 4x this .please remember as good a machine you think you have like my freind with his Esoteric 3se the parts are decent not anywhere near the best possible ,no company can afford this practice less than 25% of your total is actually in parts on any New equipment you buy ,
that is a fact. This is the most logical way to build a super cd player ,and the stock droplet is not even close!