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Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok

Both of these beasts look like they could be that “forever purchase”. These are basically the newest offerings from both well respected companies and are within spitting distance of each other price wise  (without the Bartok headphone option installed). Anybody heard both and able to comment?
spinaker01
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audiotroy
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Ross a set of Critical Mass Centerstage footers will also make a huge difference. 
rossb
183 posts
 
Thanks, I will have a look at them. I tried the Isoacoustic footers but prefer it without. 
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schelle100
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I upsampled pcm 44k to dsd 128. I hardly heard any difference. Maybe with top level headphones? Same applies to Bartok, settings do not have an impact for me
dznutz
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Biggest difference is that the X1 is the best that Lumin can do... meanwhile the Bartok is DCS’s entry level product.  The Lumin wins.
spinaker01 OP
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That’s some flawed logic right there, dznutz. How does that make the X1 the winner?
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