In Reply to: CD Player Upgrade / DAC Thoughts - Sanity Check posted by Mike C on March 20, 2014 at 04:45:24:
With your talk of how much you enjoy your analog rig, I think you might also consider
taking a listen to a Metrum Hex NOS DAC.
There is an excellent review of the Hex on the 6moons website. The thing I enjoy most about this DAC is the way it handles the attack & decay of notes. I listen to acoustic based
music (mostly classical) almost exclusively.
I had'nt listened to LPs for several years, & one of the earliest impressions of listening to music through this DAC is how much closer to the way instruments & voices to how they sound in Analog, I've often wondered how much time designers of digital equipment spend
listening to Analog music ,as most seem to disregard or consider certain characteristics
of "live" music to be unimportant.
I don't know what the tradeoffs in design may have been, (& honestly don't care), but this may be one of the best choices of a DAC you can make if you spend most of your time
listening to acoustic music.
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