In Reply to: Vintage DAC vs PS Nuwave posted by excelit on January 28, 2015 at 13:46:51:
I have the PS Audio NuWave DAC and like it a lot. But I have never heard the old vintage Alpha DAC. I did own the Cal Icon MkII which was a wonderful sounding and very well built CDP. It was my first 'high-end' CDP and I bought it used in the mid 1990's.
I can tell you that I like the NuWave DAC more than the vacuum tube Wavelength Brick DAC v3 that I owned. The Brick DAC was warm and smooth but rather soft and veiled in my opinion. I prefer resolution, dynamics, transparency, detail, and frequency extension in my source components (like DACs and CDPs). I prefer to add some 'tube magic' downstream.
Please let us know how the NuWave compares to your Alpha DAC.
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