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Doing it again,

Posted by jusbe (A) on April 30, 2017 at 16:56:47

In Reply to: RE: Yes, perfect sense. posted by mtbikeNH on April 30, 2017 at 16:05:30:

I would start looking from US$1,500 up. Answering the question of whether it is possible to do better, I would say emphatically 'yes, and then some'.

When they were more generally available, Lite's DAC60 could be had for about US$600. Not sure the Monarchy Audio version cost. However, I think Monarchy still offer a version of it called the NM24, or similar. The review at that link should be instructive. I have the one above, the DAC83, which is frankly amazing with I2S connections and even better with glass fibre optical. No problem with macro nor micro-dynamics here. Better overall performance than either the SONY SCD-1 or Marantz CD7, and I owned both of those. These are now very hard to find.

Abbas are still offering DACs for between $1,100 and $1,800 or so. They are quite an esoteric design but full of interesting parts choices and decisions (such as the tube clock and I/V device).

AN Kits and Audio Note do excellent designs, but prices creep up fast.

All of these devices will help you relax into the sound and make it much easier to focus on the performance. Instruments will sound more real and less like simulations (drum skins for example, or the woody resonance of stringed instruments - or the dynamic range of piano keys being struck). Recordings should sound more different to each other than alike, as they should.

Hope that helps.

Big J

"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."

Edits: 04/30/17 04/30/17

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