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In Reply to: Mhdt: Paradisea, Paradisea+, Rennesience II... Trends UD-10, hagerman hagUSB, ect... posted by Yashu on April 21, 2007 at 22:13:08:
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First DAC? The Dialogue may be my LAST DAC ;) After diggin' deep into the DAC thing, rolling through a dozen or two players, DACs, jitter filters, cheap to expensive, I actually like the Kusunoki-inspired, Philips TDA1543-based, 16-bit, non-os, filterless Dialogue II the best of anything I've listened to. Weighing in the price and it really is a nice value, me thinks. I have the Dialogue version that immediately preceded the most current version - 2.1 vs 2.2, or something like that.It's not the most extended or detailed DAC, but the soundstage and tonal character and density are very nice. The DAC sounds "natural", "organic", "analog" (to use those well-worn descriptors). The DAC has a very healthy dose of palpability. It breathes.
I'd like to try the Renaissance, which as mentioned, is a tube-buffered version of the Dialogue. The Paradisea is a Philips TDA1545-based DAC. I found my way to the Dialogue because I wanted to try a TDA1543 DAC, but I'm curious about the Paradisea, too.
I heard very good things about the Zhaolu D 2.5 from diykits (www.diykits.com.hk/), and you might want to consider Dusty Vawter's latest DAC, the Channel Islands Audio VDA-2.
- SJ
I like it, it has a smoothe sweet sound, *almost* analog. I would say that it is very musical and not meant for clinical listening, but enjoying the music.It is only 16bit, but it still sounds great. It is extremely dependent on the transport, IE it is greatly effected by jitter because it is a non-oversampling DAC.
It is a wonderful value, it has toslink, BNC, and coax, and I liked the toslink the best. If you have a good transport, you are going to get a great sound. A good transport or a good USB s/pdif adapter (hagUSB, trends ud-10) will make this thing sing.
If you have the money, though, I would get the paradisea+. Better transformer and PSU, and USB support, not to meantion a tubed output stage. If you do not like tubes, the constantine is the same DAC but wthout the tube.
The dialogue II is a wonderful value, though... it makes a great first DAC.
the only thing that might worry me is a number of s/h pieces you can see in classifieds. it seems everyone wants something better.
As I said this is a good "first DAC". It certainly has wet my appetitte for more, but I can't afford a new one yet. You may see a lot of them go on sale, but many of the people that sell their MHDT are buying a better MHDT model. Many of the people with the regular paradisea are selling it and buying the + version. I think that says a lot about these products, if many are willing to go through the trouble to get the latest version even if it only has incremental improvements.
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