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 😉
tommylion

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Going to Edgars (2nd post) again in a couple of weeks to hear the new version Total Dac 1 he just got, he said is even better. It has less gain he said and believes it’s because now there’s no output buffer and comes off the R2R banks instead??
Cheers George
Would love to hear their top of the line attack.
I heard the older Spring L2 for a week or two and was was very taken by it, especially when I switched to NOS mode. Think I did quite a spiel on it back some on Audiogon.

Cheers George
This is an interesting read with an A/B half way down the page between the Holo Spring at $2.5k vs the Aqua Formula at $17k

https://www.stereophile.com/content/aqua-acoustic-quality-aqua-formula-xhd-da-processor-read-more

Cheers George



As you can see the measured noise on the graph in the above link I posted, is incredibly low well below -150db, the only two noise peaks are at 100hz and 200hz which are mains related, and is apparently eliminated with the even better optional up-rated power supply which Edgar got after the review went to press.

  http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/totaldac5/5.jpg

Cheers George   
tommylion
 Who has has a totaldac DAC?


I’ve heard this reviewer’s system (Edgar Kramer), RedBook cd’s being converted by the top TotalDac with separate power supply, into a Lightspeed Attenuator into Gryphon Antillion Evo poweramp driving Wilson Alexia MkII’s. I can tell you it was a very profound moving experience.

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/totaldac5/1.html

Cheers George