RE: Wow, that was quick

Posted by jeromelang (A) on July 21, 2012 at 15:58:23

In Reply to: Wow, that was quick posted by Metralla on July 20, 2012 at 19:42:06:

The new TSDX + DAC2X combo, even if they are barely half an hour out of the box leaves the XDS1 for dead.
Dead. Murdered and mutilated beyond all recognition.
Come and take the corpse away....

The new combo is everything people have always wanted in the xds1 but felt silly to ask.

Perhaps having the transport and dac in the same chassis require a lot of heavy duty band aids. Whatever they did, it appears to have shackled the xds1's ability to present music with all their wholesomeness.

At first I thought it'll be just adding the dsd streaming over USB, and maybe, just maybe, it will be a step back, if there's going to be a fibre optic cable bouncing digital data between 2 separate components. Certainly, the monetary reason was a big factor for my decision to go for the upgrade. The dealer here allow us to return the xds1 with no penalty. Just a top up of the sum equal to the difference between the combo and xds1. I thought I should go for it as soon as possible, in case the returned xds1 sets piled up too high. Each XDS1 taken back by the dealer must find a buyer. When too many around, the price diff customers pay to trade in will not be the same.

But I was not prepared to hear such a level of improvements as this.....

I always have this feeling I made a mistake buying the xds1.

After running in for the longest time, the sound is still lean, and always seem to be layered with some metallic sounding sheen over the entire sonic landscape. The top octaves seem to get chopped off, frequency extension suddenly stopped half way, robbing ambience off some of their naturalness.

It seems like they found a way to get around this problem, but only by separating the 2 sections into separate chassis.

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Topic - Anyone trading in their XDS1 for the TSDX & DAC2X combo? - jeromelang 06:44:59 07/19/12 (16)

Jerome, is that your listening room? - rlw 12:52:03 07/23/12 (0)

"It's just plus top up the retail price difference of the new combo." - Metralla 15:51:28 07/19/12 (11)

RE: "It's just plus top up the retail price difference of the new combo." - jeromelang 17:24:40 07/19/12 (10)

OK, I've got it now - Metralla 19:45:59 07/19/12 (9)

OK, I've got it now - jeromelang 04:54:14 07/20/12 (8)

Wow, that was quick - Metralla 19:42:06 07/20/12 (7)

RE: Wow, that was quick - jeromelang 15:58:23 07/21/12 (6)

RE: Wow, that was quick - docmark 18:20:05 08/06/12 (0)

Congratulations!!! - trcnetmsncom 08:42:15 07/23/12 (1)

Thanks! :-) n/t - jeromelang 21:03:12 07/23/12 (0)

Thank you - Metralla 18:50:36 07/21/12 (2)

5 sets sold since last Friday - jeromelang 21:05:34 07/23/12 (1)

All six sets are SOLD! - jeromelang 06:37:00 07/24/12 (0)

RE: Anyone trading in their XDS1 for the TSDX & DAC2X combo? - littlewilly 08:09:39 07/19/12 (2)

Please do me a favor... - Chris Garrett 16:53:17 07/19/12 (0)

RE: Anyone trading in their XDS1 for the TSDX & DAC2X combo? - jeromelang 08:59:36 07/19/12 (0)

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RE: Wow, that was quick - jeromelang 15:58:23 07/21/12 (6)

RE: Wow, that was quick - docmark 18:20:05 08/06/12 (0)

Congratulations!!! - trcnetmsncom 08:42:15 07/23/12 (1)

Thanks! :-) n/t - jeromelang 21:03:12 07/23/12 (0)

Thank you - Metralla 18:50:36 07/21/12 (2)

5 sets sold since last Friday - jeromelang 21:05:34 07/23/12 (1)

All six sets are SOLD! - jeromelang 06:37:00 07/24/12 (0)

RE: Wow, that was quick

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