Well, wife wants a newer car . If the budget all of the sudden happens to 30k instead of 40 I think I'll get away with it 🤔
When you can't unhear !
So about two weeks ago I brought a dac home from my favourite dealer to evaluate over the holidays.
I have done this a couple of times but never been really impressed . This was different.
The DAC is soulnote d-2 and it's not going anywhere soon !
Had it in my system for about 5 days when a friend came over and we had a listen, he thought it sounded really good and asked if I had compared it to my old? I haven't. So I plugged in the other and started the same track . It was not subtle, it was saddening how big the difference was. Switching back to the soulnote and wondering about how to unhear that, but I couldn't so I sold one kidney and one of the children and I'm much happier now 😁
Jokes aside, anybody else had that " can't unhear this " experience and what did you do about it?
My former dac was the Matrix audio X-Sabre Pro MQA.
Have a good 2024 everyone !
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@lalitk thank you . my philosophy in a nutshell 😆 |
+1 @coralkong if you look at my system, it was supposed to just be a second basement system to hear while working on my model railroad. I went to audition the Parasound Halo Hint 6 integrated w onboard DAC. The speakers at the demo were mid level Kef. I thought it sounded so so. then the dealer swapped in the Esoteric CD player as the DAC. I was blown away. I did not buy it, but I bought a lot of other good stuff once I had heard it. @iseland congrats on the D-2. I recently purchased a barely used A-2 for our weekend home, and it is amazing. I am jealous as to the possibility of a D-2 DAC with the A-2. I would need a streamer though I think. Recommendations for a weekend home @lalitk ? @chayro do you have an A3 with the D3? and of course the clock? how much better is it? |
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