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| What HardDrive Do You Use? The computer is in the machine room here. There is no computer noise at the listening position anymore. 50 feet AES cable is the rocks. | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Looks like used Directstream price have just crashed through $3000, glad I got out before that. Horrible incorrect sounding DAC. | |
| Perfectwave PWD MKII, Benchmark DAC2, Wyred DAC2 Cal3713, yup, the Directstream sounded like it's defective. Looks like you got first hand experience right there. I'm glad you didn't have to take a huge loss on it unlike me. | |
| Metrum Pavane NOS DAC Yeah, my experience with 1bit DSD DAC was... beyond horrible. 6bit R2R Delta Sigma DACs are actually pretty good, Burr-Brown call it "advanced segment", Onkyo receivers/processors got it and it sounds great and is super cheap!Sabre Delta Sigma DAC... | |
| Focal SM9 Got a pair of the SM9 now. Dynamics blows away even the best of the audiophile setups.Damping/impulse response is out of this world.Imaging is unlike anything I've ever heard, so enveloping I can hear sfx behind me, how is this possible!? There is... | |
| Metrum Pavane NOS DAC AES + reclocker is the way to go. 50 feet AES cable here. Enough for 16 channels!The Metrum DAC is... perfect. Beautiful beautiful sound.Nothing else to say about it really. The closest digital gear to analog sounding.Well, I wish it's cheaper so ... | |
| Perfectwave PWD MKII, Benchmark DAC2, Wyred DAC2 The Directstream is an incorrect sounding DAC, the more revealing your system, the worse it sounds.I was so happy when I finally got rid of it. I suffered with it for months.... | |
| Mid life crisis yields open check from the wife. Have you considered pro active monitors? | |
| Perfectwave PWD MKII, Benchmark DAC2, Wyred DAC2 I have trialed the Benchmark DAC2, it's... OK. You should try audition Metrum DACs, the difference is huge.Also, for cheaper options, PCM1794A based DAC should sound better than the Benchmark DAC2, the 6 bit R2R in that DAC is good stuff. | |
| Disturbing "Sonic Trend" showing up on SOTA audio Having just got rid of one such DAC, the PS Audio Directstream, I now have a lot of contempt for snake oil, I mean boutique audio shops.Mass market audio/pro audio are far more natural sounding than Sterophile magazine recommendations. I now suspe... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock The same thing on the pro audio side is a lot cheaper, check out Mutec. | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC I found that on the Directstream, I listened mainly to piano/vocal over and over.Now I realized why, complex music sounded like crap on the Directstream so I ended up avoiding them over time.I have categorized playlists containing all the songs I ... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC My collection is basically all digital lossless (flac, wav, tak, ape, blah blah), majority is CD quality instrumentals, vocal, ethnic, and lots of original soundtracks (OSTs on a good DAC is heavenly).Lately, I've been getting a ton of hi-res reco... | |
| Does Balanced Power Technologies still exist? Technology have caught up, mass market products are now good enough for most people. | |
| Emotiva UMC-200 vs XMC-1 processor....... I'm testing an XMC-1 right now, and it sounds amazing, better than the $6000 Directstream DAC, but of course that doesn't say a lot.It appears to be buggy though... |