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In Reply to: RE: Finally got my Lampizated Kinergetics KCD-55 Ultra DAC working posted by TBone on May 06, 2015 at 05:48:24
Now are you talking about the Prima DAC or the Prima cd player because they are two totally different animals. The cd player was a budget player while the DAC was a Capitole 24/192 without the transport. Why they named two completely different machines the same name is something only they could tell you.
The Prima DAC I had used the Anagram Technologies digital filter/upsampler whatever, a modern sigma/delta DAC chip from Analog devices I think, and a tube output stage with these cute little subminiature triodes. There are nice photos in the review on 6 moons.
I would say that compared to my Monarchy M24 DAC (BB PCM63K) and the Kinergetics (UA D20400) ladder DAC based machines there is an overly smooth and somewhat weak dynamic expression of the Prima DAC. It was transparent with nice soundstage and image focus. Bass was also not the most dynamic but still acceptably good. Tonality was very nice. It was a very good DAC in someways but I felt these others to give a more realistic sound.
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was demo'd. No such experience with the Prima DAC. Demo'd (briefly) a Monarchy DAC, very nice.
The prima cdp is a much cheaper model without the sophisticated power supply, digital filter and output stage.
The Monarchy DAC is excellent, IMO and I have been using it happily for years. It gives a robust and analoglike sound with good resolution and ambient space retrieval. The Prima DAC was perhaps better at that last bit but not by much.
This newly Lampizated DAC is promising to go one step beyond these.
> > The prima cdp is a much cheaper model without the sophisticated power supply, digital filter and output stage. < <
I was provided a unit to home demo moons ago; was told it would easily better my Linn (linn digital gets so little respect around here) for less money. Didn't even come close, past it's tendency towards brightness, it obviously compressed the frequency extremes/bandwidth during peak passages, even compared to the Linn Genki(*). I also compared it to an Ayre I was also considering, in another system, no contest there either.
Others around here swore by it and the Capitole, neither proved to be my cup of tea ... (the Linn CD12 proved far superior to any Capitole I've heard, but each demo system was completely different (the Capitole was demo'd in an expensive tube based system, the Linn SS).
Well, I can't comment on the Prima cdp except to point out it was the budget model but the Prima DAC was not (it was $5K new).
Ultimately, I preferred my Monarchy DAC and now the excellent Kinergetics with Lampizator mods.
> > Lampizator mods < <
I'd like to hear or attempt the mod one day.
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