bhobba
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| Wyred DACS If you are extremely sensitive to sibilance and glare then I believe the WFS will not be your preference. This is not to slight the DAC - it is very hard to make a DAC that will synergige in everyones system to their taste. The tranquility will be... | |
| Wyred DACS Hi CutterfilmOh I forgot to mention I think you have simply run into a system synergy thing that the removal of the pre amp highlighted. I suspect by bypassing the pre amp your system is now more transparent and you can hear some of the issues tha... | |
| Wyred DACS Hi CutterfilmYou may be running into the slight upper midrange issue the Saber chip has. This is an excellent DAC but when compared to much more expensive DAC's you can hear this. It may be inherent to the Saber chip or it may be that it is a diff... | |
| Wyred DACS Thats it. But I have found Play under the MAC to be a bit better - clearer to my ears.ThanksBill | |
| Wyred DACS EJ recommended, and what I used, was Kernel Streaming Tried ASIO but it did not work. It's not hard to try various modes and see what you like best. However I have now switched to using the Mac OS rather than Windows and have found Play to be a bi... | |
| Wyred DACS The guy whose reference system we tried it out on did some further investigation when I left and this is what he posted in an unrelated thread on another forum (it was about a DAC shootout we were at):Bill had a normal Laptop and I think he was us... | |
| Wyred DACS Hi Guys The Tranquility just arrived. Have done a quick evaluation with a Windows Notebook which is far from its optimum setup. Already however to our ears we think it is better than the WFS - no trace of the sibilance issue. Both Dianna Krall and... | |
| Wyred DACS Haven't had a chance to audition the Tranquility yet. Due to some issues there is no need to go into about here it will be shipped to me in Australia Monday. It was going to be part of a DAC shootout Saturday week and there is now some doubt it wi... | |
| Wyred DACS Technically for the reasons I outlined I go 192k, but it would come as no surprise to me if 96k is just as good audibly. Actually I was just speaking to Eric Hider at dB Audio Labs the makers of the Tranquility and he says the best recordings he h... | |
| Wyred DACS Hi RayoooI didn't check anything at 96k since 192k was available. I did notice a bit more detail with 192k up-sampling and native 192k was better again. Did'nt have 96k to check out but I would imagine up-sampling 96k to 192k would not be much if ... | |
| Wyred DACS I have had some feedback from EJ that he is getting a bit of flack about some of my posts and they do not reflect what I have said to him.To set the record straight my concern about the DAC had to do with not being able to get the USB working. Thi... | |
| Wyred DACS Don't know anything about the Bryston.ThanksBill | |
| Wyred DACS I will be organizing getting the Tranquility about the 18th August. But since I am in Australia there are importation issues etc that could delay things. I will have it clearly marked audio gear for evaluation so hopefully it should go straight th... | |
| Wyred DACS When it first came out the scuttlebutt was it was scary close to the best out there at any price. My testing and comparison showed it was probably the best in its price range, with the possible exception of the Tranquility, but it was simply close... | |
| Wyred DACS Hi GuysBeen playing around with the DAC and have noticed the right side is louder than the left. I don't know why we didn't notice it before - all I can think of is when we were testing it the balance was adjusted to compensate or maybe it only ha... |