Who has has a totaldac DAC?


If you have one, or have listened to one, Please share your thoughts and experience. If you specifically have the d-1 tube, that would be perfect. If you live within driving distance of Burlington, VT, please invite me over to hear it, and I'll bring some good single malt šŸ˜‰
tommylion

Showing 3 responses by cal3713

I'm following along @thielisteĀ 

Hope some more users pitch in. Please do let me know how it goes if you take the plunge. I love my dac (audio Mirror T3-SE), but am considering moving into the next price level over the next year or two. Am only considering R2Rs and have also been looking at the Mojo Audio units...
And @georgehifi I've also been reading about the new Holo May dual mono dac. Would love to hear their top of the line attack.
@vin99 Funny to see you post that thread. I just read it in entirety earlier today...

When I purchased my last dac I demoed a number of different brands/topologies. One of those was the Matrix x-sabre pro that is near the top of ASR's measurement rankings. Unfortunately I really didn't like it and ended up choosing the audio mirror r2r. I will note that I also didn't like the lampizator amber 3 (very energetic, but too hot and bright) or the PS audio directstream dac (sounded kind of unnaturally mixed up to me, maybe there are some strange phase issues I'm sensitive to). I did not volume match and was sighted, but ran a blind session for a friend and he also chose the AM. The experience made me question the reliance on measurements. In some ways ASR was right (I didn't like the poorly measuring Directstream), but in other ways they were wrong (I didn't like the wonderfully measuring Matrix and my friend's blind impressions matched my own).

That said, some of the issues identified with the tested Totaldac were very alarming.