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| Six DAC Comparison @brbrock - pretty sure the LTA Aero uses chokes but not the big Lundahl chokes used by Mojo Audio. I will look into it. I suggest reading the links I posted that have direct comments from Benjamin Zwickel if you haven’t already. | |
| Six DAC Comparison Mojo Audio Mystique EVO Pro Applicable Articles and Published Reviews Dagogo – Benjamin Zwickel on the Mojo Audio Mystique v3 Enjoy the Music – Jeremy Kipnis’ review of the Mojo Audio Mystique v3 Audiophilia - Karl Sigman’s review of the Mo... | |
| Six DAC Comparison Preamble My next post will consist of my observations of the Mojo Audio Mystique EVO Pro DAC. This will be the longest write-up of the DACs being compared since I have owned this one the longest and I am very comfortable and pleased with the sou... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @moonwatcher - I am just finishing up my write-up on the Mojo Audio Mystique EVO Pro, which will be my baseline for comparing against the others. LTA Aero will be next. All the nice end of summer weather we have had this week is getting in the wa... | |
| Unplated copper spades/banana @megabyte - I agree with your post but would add that in my world bare copper is fine too as long as you clean it occasionally. @logistics There are bigger fish to try, such as upgrading to better quality electronic components within your curr... | |
| Unplated copper spades/banana @dougthebiker As I read all these posts, I can't help but wonder what the systems of the people posting are like. I often wonder that too. Mine is posted, as is yours, and it is nice to have that perspective about the system a poster is list... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @soix - Galvanic isolation - good add. In the digital audio world, a decent DDC offers tangible improvements for an $800 box! In the world of DACs, I believe there can be quite a variance in the quality of the USB input, which can also be negated... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @brbrock - Here is a list of DAC chips from 2012 with performance comments by Antonino Scozzaro of Soundbsessive The SMc DAC-2 uses the CS4328 chip (good odnobitnik) The Mojo Audio DACs use dual AD1862 chips (20-bit – one of the best of the w... | |
| Unplated copper spades/banana The overwhelming majority of wire in audio components is made from copper. In a perfect world you would have continuous copper wire with no connections or switches so the question becomes how to provide the best continuity/conductivity across the ... | |
| Six DAC Comparison It was more challenging than I anticipated to choose a small group of music selections that were both representative of music I listen to, and also suitable to highlight attributes of the of DACs being compared. I started by creating a new playli... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @vthokie83 and @trivema - Unfortunately, I do not have the Denafrips Pontus II DAC with an Iris DDC to include as part of the comparison, or any Denefrips DAC. I have considered trying a Terminator (in whatever iteration) several times but the t... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling I was just commenting on the quality of the Jupiter wire in general as well as their capacitors. I have not used Jupiter wire in the helix builds. @toolbox149 - Same for me as stated above by @grannyring, i.e., no helix builds. However, on the ... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @agisthos - The only brand new unit is the LTA Aero, which was burned in at the factory for a week and has been in my system and turned on full time for three weeks, while playing music some of the time, maybe 30 hours. The Merason is an original... | |
| Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling @toolbox149 - I have used quite a bit of the Jupiter wire, including the silver, but mostly the copper. I have made Chris VH’s ICs using the silver wire but eventually replaced those with Furutech bulk OCC IC cables. However, I am currently using ... | |
| Six DAC Comparison @soix - I have been thinking about your suggestion and I agree - comparing them all at once is not going to move things forward. Therefore, I will use the Mojo Audio Mystique EVO Pro DAC as my baseline, since I am most familiar with it, and then ... |