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In Reply to: RE: Most exceptional posted by LWR on February 21, 2015 at 05:50:25
Interesting review. I'm not that familiar with Yulong. The author project68 mentions toward the beginning of the review that some Yulong DACs are noticeably on the warm side. Toward the end of the review he claims to dislike the NuWave DAC because he finds it to be on the bright side. I own the Oppo HA-1 and the PS Audio NuWave and find the NuWave to be noticeably warmer than the Oppo. This review leads me to believe that project68 favors rather warm and smooth sounding DACs. Which is fine. I also had the Luxman DA-06 which is smooth and warm but it left me bored with a lot of music in that it seemed to lack dynamic drive and extension up top in the treble. I do enjoy a little 'warmth' but if the author of this review thinks the NuWave is bright, I'd bet that the Yulong maybe overly lush for my liking. Hard to say.
From the review:
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The DAC feeds the VTL with a very nice top end, I do not find it overly warm, however that may be the VTL or the amps (B.E.L 1001-mono blocked) or the speakers.
Listening to 24/96 files upped (x2) from Audirvana Plus to 192 the highs seem as accurate as can be.
Using the headphone amp with HD600 I do get some more warmth and a very slight bit less treble.
However, the sound over all, either way, is very pleasing. Would I buy it again knowing how it sounds? In a heartbeat..
Thanks. I wouldn't mind trying one.... along with several others! There are so many great DAC choices these days in the $1000 +/- range.
I bought it based on that review. Since the only dealer was Grant in Canada. It arrived from China 5 days after I ordered it. The packaging was amazingly superb....took about 20 hours before the sound smoothed out and it continued to sweeten for another 50 hours. At almost the exact 70th hour it suddenly just blossomed and was done breaking in.
Listened to Eva Cassidy off the hard drive last night, in random shuffle mode and the differences in each albums recording quality and techniques was very very obvious.
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