kzhtoo
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| Metrum Octave First Impressions I switched in Shanyata Venom 3 PC to replace the stock PC and immediately heard the improvement. I guess better PC would yield more. Anyone wanna share the aftermarket PC you use with Metrum? | |
| Metrum Octave First Impressions On day 2 of a Metrum Octave ownership. So far so good. Hasn't exactly trounced my electrocompaniet ECD-1 dac. Hopefully it will, I was told Octave should even be better than a modded ECD-1.Cayin,What was your experience in Octave right out of the ... | |
| Metrum Octave single ended output Devilboy, you're absolutely right. First thing I checked when I fired up the Octave this morning is noise. I use 1M Nordost Heimdall IC and I detected NONE. :)BTW, I posted this in other thread, but I guess I'd ask it here as well. Octave sounds g... | |
| Metrum Octave single ended output In my system and for my own personal requirements (see below), Synchro-mesh makes a world of difference. I went through the break-in of synchro-mesh (2-3 days) with my electrocompaniet ecd-1 dac and the experience can be described as going through... | |
| Yamamoto YDA 01 DAC Sorry to hijack, but this thread seems to be very informative regarding Metrum Octave (although the title is Yamamoto).My Octave just arrived this morning, I set it up and play music on repeat before I came to work. For a few minutes I could muste... | |
| Metrum Octave single ended output Hi Audiojedi, thanks for the detail info. Just ordered one Octave from Hifi Heaven today (they offer 14-day return policy with restocking fee). I plan to use it with Pass XP-10 pre and from there running balanced to Pass XA30.5 amp. I also use Emp... | |
| Digital S/PDIF RCA cable recommendation Hi jimf, thanks for the info. | |
| Digital S/PDIF RCA cable recommendation Thank you, my bad. :)I was looking at Nordost Silver Shadow that is on sale on Music Direct. How would you describe Grover? Have you compared against some other digital cables? | |
| Digital S/PDIF RCA cable recommendation Grover Huffman doesn't seem to offer digital RCA cables. | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Hi Srosenberg, thanks for the info on Benchmark DAC2-HGC. I wouldn't have known. It indeed is a feature rich product. I will be keeping an eye on this for the next few months.My initial budget $3-4k USD is based on the assumption that there's a pr... | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. I see. Thanks for the info. I may still try Octave regardless because it seems whoever tried Octave (A'gon, Audiocircles and a few others) have nothing but good things to say and the quality of their systems are equal or better than mine. Secondly... | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Njs, thanks for sharing the experience. Not that I'm not convinced with synchro-mesh but it's very comforting to hear what you said. | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Correction: Octave uses total of 8 "industrial" dac chips, 4 per channel. I couldn't find anywhere on the net what those dac are. It seems Metrum really goes out of their way to protect this. The only info I could find is they aren't originally ma... | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Hi Edorr, a lot of thanks to you and Steve. If we hadn't had this thread, I'm not sure how much time and money I would waste more. Can't wait for the Synchro-mesh and during the meantime I'm thinking of acquiring a dac for comparison with my ECD-1... | |
| Looking for a DAC that has.. Hi Steve, appreciate for detail answers. Just ordered Synchro-mesh today. :) Can't wait!As mentioned before I'm also thinking to move ECD-1 dac. It seems on this forum a lot of people like Metrum Octave or Eastern Electric dac. What would be your ... |