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Your opinion members of the sonics of the Bricasti M21 and Berkeley Alpha Reference 3
@modavid  Where did you get your Bricasti? Considering the m21 or an Audio Note DAC. What else did you listen to?   
Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts
@tvad    great review of your experiences with these dacs..Thanks for taking the time as many of them are on my short list of dacs for my system.   
Aries-Cerat Helene Review
@tonywinga lol, yes indeed it's a beast to deal with when it comes to shipping and recrating. Beautiful design overall, glad you are happy with yours. Feels good to be settled into what you were looking for for sure.    Enjoy your DAC!   
Aries-Cerat Helene Review
@charles1dad   "All comments/feedback that I’ve encountered concerning the Helene DAC has been unequivocally positive."   I just shattered your world apparently...I wasn't trying to solve a dillema but I have first hand experience with the da... 
Aries-Cerat Helene Review
I have the Helene here in my system...First impressions, it's annoyingly heavy, it's resolving, and throws a MASSIVE sound stage, but...In my system the DAC is almost too neutral for my ear and lacking something in the mid bass region. Sounds good... 
Aries-Cerat Helene Review
@audition__audio    Again, I get it, Bob is alot to handle, I take him at face value, nothing more. What cables did you move to from IAK?   
Aries-Cerat Helene Review
@willgolf  Don't defend the indefensible...The guy is over the top and you KNOW it. Spend about 5 minutes on the phone with Bob and everything you know and have experienced in your audio journey is WRONG and only what he has experienced, and coin... 
SW1X Audio Design DAC II Absolute Top Tier Ref NOS DAC
@wig Why aren't you gushing over that amp as being the best thing?    SW1X is totally over priced and the resale values and times it takes to sell one is abysmal. Ultimately, there is a market, and AN has great resale and for how much of it is o... 
SW1X Audio Design DAC II Absolute Top Tier Ref NOS DAC
@wig    All this gushing about DHT, when it’s NOT a DHT DAC, and beating a AN DAC at 3X the cost (bologna, which model) and yet this guy sold this DAC off and doesn’t even own it anymore...How end game is it. Hmmmmm  
Tube rolling Audio Note DACs
Resurrecting this thread...Anyone rolling tubes more recently in their AN DACs? Interested if anyone swapped the Rectifier tube out for 6x5gt, KenRad.   
Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts
I listened to the Big 7, came close...It was a nice DAC but I had to scratch the AN itch and glad I did. I felt like I'd have to go much higher in the Lampi line up to better what I heard in the 3.1 from AN.   
Aries-Cerat Helene Review
@audition__audio    Bob is alot to handle but the AC gear is good. You have to separate the two, Bob won't be living in your listening room after the sale and thats all that matters.   
Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts
You do not need to pair AN dacs with AN gear that is a widely accepted misnomer, not true in the least. No different than any other manufacturer.  I did have a Lampi in here and it was a nice DAC but in the end I preferred the AN sound over the L... 
Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts
The issue with the SW1X is it’s priced on point (or more) with Audio Note but it resells like absolute crap. Caveat Emptor if you want to sell it, can take a while and you will take a larger hit than if you were to resell AN. It may very well be ... 
Holo Audio May KTE vs DCS Rossini Player / Clock
@rooze I read alot about it too, which is why I purchased it (at the right price)..But the proof is in the pudding at they say, put my ear on it and just didn't sound like music. Definitely not a system issue, I have had a bunch of dacs in here as...