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Denafrips Terminator vs other dacs

Hey everyone I have owned the denafrips Terminator in my system for approximately one year and am enjoying it. However I have not compared it to many other Dacs. the only one really being the Burson conductor SL 9018 and the hdv 820 and both of these were with headphones not speakers.
Initially when I was buying I was looking to spend around 4,000 and was deciding between the PS audio directstream and the Terminator and after lots of reading eventually settled on The Terminator.

So in this thread my aim is to get all the people who've either owned the Terminator or heard it to chime in on there impressions of it specifically compared to other dacs. Some of the other dacs I'm thinking of are the chord Hugo 2, tt2, Dave. The bricasti M1 SE. PS direct stream. Metrum pavane. Holo spring l3. And any other dacs that you heard that you have compared to the Terminator.

I realize that there are other threads that discuss the Terminator but I have not seen any that focus on comparing it to other dacs which is what I want this thread to be focused on.
Thank you so much.
smodtactical

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@thyname

If you give more detailed experience of  MSB Discrete DAC, it will help a lot.

With basic price under 10K, it is a very interesting product.

Thomas
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@thyname

https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/reviews/my-quest-for-a-new-dac-part-3-denafrips-terminator-r740/

DAC is dependent on system and personal taste.

The author implied that Ayre QX-5 Twenty sounds better than Terminator.

Comparison with the Ayre QX-5 Twenty

 

I still had this puppy on loan, so had to do this comparison. Well, there's a reason the QX-5 Twenty costs north of $9k. In many ways, the QX-5 was the amalgam of the strengths of the Terminator and the QX-8! It was even more refined and resolving than the QX-8, but with dynamics and low end oomph to match the Terminator.

 

Pay, and ye shall receive!



It seems that you owned Ayre QX-5 Twenty.

Could you give comparison between Ayre QX-5 Twenty and MSB Discrete Dac?

thanks in advance

Thomas

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@Thyname
Thanks a lot for your valuable opinion on MSB Discrete Dac.

I will start a new thread on MSB Discrete Dac
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