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In Reply to: RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. posted by bjh on April 16, 2014 at 07:46:57:
I am not necessarily endorsing NOS DACs...just ladder DACs with or without DF. Both of mine use an 8x oversampling DF (one the BB DF1704 and the other a Sony). One has a tube output and the other is all SS. Both kick the crap out of even very expensive upsampling, 24/192 sgima/delta dacs with normal cd. I have been quite impressed with the Metrum Hex and the Abingdon Research DAC and upper level Audio Note DACs but others have not impressed (like 47 labs).
You have to remember that many cheap DACs from China just stick a tube buffer on the end of a chain with several opamps and give the worst of all worlds. Monarchy uses passive IV and a single tube output stage with no transistors or opamps at all in the path after the DAC...that is highly unusual if not unique. The Kinergetics is more of a mystery but the output is at least all discrete and not opamp based.
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- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - morricab 17:04:36 04/16/14 (5)
- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - bjh 21:46:45 04/16/14 (4)
- RE: BS .. current DACs are the best. Only nostalgia keeps NOS/tube players alive. - morricab 02:35:06 04/17/14 (3)
- pfft nt - bjh 06:57:33 04/17/14 (2)
- RE: pfft nt - morricab 06:40:59 04/18/14 (1)
- That sound he makes... it's a sound of lost argument. - carcass93 09:34:06 04/18/14 (0)
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