DAC’s


Hello, curious on everyone’s thoughts. I’m still building my system. I came across a really good deal on a Meitner MA3 dac. It’s from an authorized dealer and they offered to sell me one NIB for 7k. I have read and read about dacs and I am getting tired. Haha. I really like the Denafrips Terminator 2, Holo and the lumin T3 being the cheapest of them all. Once I factor in a streamer I am already close or over the 7k. Also I don’t need a dac for anything other then just streaming. Thank you 

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Sir, I can get one for 7k NIB from a dealer. That is part of why I posted this to begin with, but thank you.

my point in putting that there (although it is deleted now) is to say that if you can buy a new one from a dealer for 7 grand, that it may not be too far off the used market trading price for the unit, and thus, if you are willing to make the effort to resell the unit if you don’t like it as much as you hope, that there would be a small or zero loss money-wise

good luck on your search

Not to throw a wrench in the DAC world, but what does everyone think of the T+A 200 DAC ? 

You are delusional. At no point have I used language even close to profanity. Calling someone’s comments caustic is akin to profanity? That’s a joke.

The most dangerous person in the world is someone with a bit of knowledge.

Comments like...

  • Fuses are used to prop up the egos of some super human beings
  • Expensive cable is for fools
  • Power cables do NOT affect amplifier sound
  • Most contributors here are superhumans who can hear sounds that do not exist.
  • There is no such thing as an audio network switch
  • This is catnip for the superhumans on this thread who claim they can hear a difference :). Keep on spending, good laughing material. Anyone who claims they can hear it is either very gullible to marketing or from another planet or on some psychedelic substance.
  • Power conditioners are all snake oil and are NOT needed.
  • İt is a joke selling a $100 switch to be audiphool modified.So many gullible people around it is simply amazing.
  • Actually if you use it in the arctic in a vertical orientation with two polar bears looking at it, the sound is phenomenal.
  • If you are hearing a difference it is all in your mind.
  • What makes a DAC so expensive: Audiophiles who think that the more expensive a product is, the better it must be....
  • If you think otherwise, you are either delusional and/or very gullible to the power of suggestion from marketing folks
  • Another snake oil subject. I do NOT believe power cords matter either.
  • A $50 cable is good enuf
  • Fuses do NOT contribute to the sound in any way AT ALL.
  • My cables cost a whooping $50 ant they are perfect. As long as shielded, every cable is perfect.
  • When will the audiophools stop fooling themselves and realize the exaggerated placebo effect ?
  • Fuse believers should please repeat after me, while slowly and periodically banging your head against a corner wall...
  • Anyone who thinks a fuse changes the sound, suffers an inferiority complex, which manifests itself in them feeling superior to everyone else thinking they hear differences.
  • Audiophile network switches are snake oil.
  • most of the audiogon contributors are indeed delusional :-) That is not a putdown but reality.
  • Forget this fuse bull s..t
  • Some of you seriously need help. I can recommend a good audiologist and/or a psychiatrist.
  • We are simply trying to help some delusional parties who claim they hear voices which do not exist, by introducing them to reality :-)
  • The reviewer is either dreaming/hallucinating or had mismatched impedances in his cables in the first place.A $10 coax will work just as fantastic.
  • Audiophools judge mostly by price.

 

In the end, there is no help available for a zealot with a closed mind.