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RE: CD Player Upgrade / DAC Thoughts - Sanity Check

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In Reply to: RE: CD Player Upgrade / DAC Thoughts - Sanity Check posted by Mike C on March 20, 2014 at 04:45:24

Thanks! for sharing Mike C.

I have always wanted to audition the Austin Tew. I concur, that you will be hard-pressed to find a better player than the Aesthetix Romulus.
Equally good for CD only ( no DAC) would be the newest Parasound.

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RE: CD/DAC thoughts - unclestu 23:28:55 03/21/14 (2)
By all means see if you can audition a MYDAC from Musical Surroundings. There was a review in TAS for Feb IIRC. It is the only DAC I know of that has a patent pending for its processing. Read the review for an explanation of the system devised to retain the low level signals.

IMHE, it is the most analog like DAC I have heard for a reasonable price, say up to $3K. Nothing leaps out at you, the highs are smooth and detailed, and the whole presentation is like a good TT rig.

Mike Yee, the SF designer, is an analog man (I've been to his home) and he designs the Musical Surroundings Phonomena units, all great buys for the money (TAS 5 star recommended phono section for under $1.5K). He has turned his ideas on phon sections into a superb DAC. Right now its under the radar for most, but I believe it is a superb unit. BTW Mike plays classical guitar so they do come out really nicely.

I have a prototype 32 bit DAC board and it kills.

Of Course YMMV
- RE: CD/DAC thoughts - John Elison 05:25:44 03/22/14 (1)
  > IMHE, it is the most analog like DAC I have heard for a reasonable price, say up to $3K.
  > Nothing leaps out at you, the highs are smooth and detailed, and the whole presentation is like a good TT rig.
  
  It would be nice if DACs like that would have a selector to switch between "analog" and "accurate" in order to cope with pure digital recordings compared to those already made from an analog source. The 24/96 recordings I make from vinyl sound perfectly analog to me when using an "accurate" DAC. On the other hand, they sound a bit too soft and mushy when using an "analog" sounding DAC.
  
  Best regards,
  John Elison
  - RE: CD/DAC thoughts - flood2 03:30:00 04/15/14 (0)
    When you say "analog sounding" DAC do you mean the filter characteristic? As in minimum phase?
    "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats

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