robbob
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| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Just accept that others can hear things you can't and others may choose to spend their money differently. >>>Chayro,....no one is forcing anyone's values on you or the fellow who thinks you need to spend 10K on a DAC. I've voiced my opini... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes 20k should be a drop in he bucket for you - just think of it as another watch or a handbag for your wife. >>You mention trolling, but you're the one who introduced 10K DACs into a thread discussing DAC's costing quite a bit less...though the... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes I'm sorry...did someone just mention a DAC costing 10K is needed for "real sound?"That's pretty funny! I've heard systems in the 70-80K range and never once did I hear one that actually sounded real, and they had turntables that were better than a... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Tubegroover....Actually, we AGREE! I agree there are differences and certainly they bear out more in long term listening between units. What I'm trying to point out is these differences are VASTLY smaller than the differences between other compone... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes do you exclude the possibility that a tube dac , with a tube gain stage and a particular nos tube cannot sound very different than a solid state dac ?>>>>I'd like to address this question, especially given the fact that I heard the Min... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes more detail and resolution, does not intrinsically denote that the sound is better.>>>>Some recordings are poorly served by the ninth degree of detail and resolution, but when the planets line up I prefer to have a system that gives me... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Sibelius, sometimes tubes don't match tubes in other components. It's not very scientific, but they can sound tubby and muddy when synergy is poor. My friend sold his Minimax Plus to a fellow using a system using Revel speakers and SS power. He's ... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Chayro, I agree 100%. It's just that there are more ears than mine who listened to these DACs and no one heard a big difference. Over time the differences became smaller or at least seemed so.The associated gear is quite good. The listeners are ex... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes To the fellow who has the dealership....you're the first person I've heard say that the Vandersteen 5a's are not a highly resolving speaker. My Merlin TSM-MXr's are also noted for being fairly good when it comes to getting the details.Naturally...... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Elizabeth....The problem is that many people write such comments in the same manner as they do any other review. Example: I was told that the Merlins would create imaging and tonal accuracy far beyond what my excellent Magnepan 1.6 pair could mana... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Foster....here's another rub:The longer you live with a DAC the more it settles in. I'm not talking about break-in. I'm talking about our ears and tastes settling in with a new addition to a system. After the W4S 2 was broken in we still weren't i... | |
| W4S or Rega Dac - Opinions Wanted Tubegroover...hi!I have not heard that amp, though I have heard good things about it. As specified I'm using the latest version of the Manley Stingray (Type II) with stock tubes.I also have listened to these DAC's on a friend's system using ARC po... | |
| W4S or Rega Dac - Opinions Wanted Anyone who states the W4S DAC1 or DAC2 is bright or analytical has issues elsewhere in their rig.>>>Face, we tried the W4S II Dac against the Rega DAC and EE Minimax Plus (SS mode) and the W4S sounded brighter and more analytical than eit... | |
| Upgrading from Rega Apollo to Rega Saturn CD?? From what I understand it's likely that the Rega DAC will improve the Apollo R but I would not expect a mind-blowing difference. As with most good DACs and CDPs we're talking about subtle changes that can often amount to something sounding differe... | |
| W4S or Rega Dac - Opinions Wanted My friend and I compared the W4S DAC II against the Rega DAC in my system, which is Manley Stingray II tube amp with Merlin TSM-MXr speakers. If you hunt around you can probably find my comments, but we found the top end of the W4S a bit much and ... |