My most recent "Holy S?!T" moment was the move from a Chord Hugo 2 to a Weiss 501 during a customer demo. The Weiss was new to me and I use the Hugo 2 all the time. These are not in the same price class (Hugo 2 and 2Go are $3800 and the Weiss 501 is $9k) but there are times when you make a change and the difference is subtle and you aren't certain how much of an impact one DAC had vs. another. The Weiss is very warm and almost analog sounding while the Chord sounds a bit colder. Not bad just very different presentations.
What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”?
As the title suggests, what was your overall system and DAC at the point where you bought only a new DAC and said “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”?
I’m a novice and so many people talk about improvements from new equipment as if they were only listening to varying degrees of static until they bought more and more new equipment which added up to them finally being presented with music. It’s like Salome and the seven veils. But when does the last veil get peeled away?
So what system did you have and what DAC did you swap in that made you say “DAMN!!!!”?
I guess I’m looking for night and day differences, not gradual progressions……
I’m a novice and so many people talk about improvements from new equipment as if they were only listening to varying degrees of static until they bought more and more new equipment which added up to them finally being presented with music. It’s like Salome and the seven veils. But when does the last veil get peeled away?
So what system did you have and what DAC did you swap in that made you say “DAMN!!!!”?
I guess I’m looking for night and day differences, not gradual progressions……