2. digital
  3. 1298408007

Vintage Levinson DACs

I was always fascinated by the Levinson reference digital components.

I had and enjoyed using a 31 transport for many years, but never stepped up for the 30.6 DAC.

Can anyone comment on how the old Levinson DACs might compare with the best DACs today?

Is there something magical about these DACs, or is it mainly the enclosures and red LEDs?
cwlondon

Showing 2 responses by yioryos

yioryos's avatar
yioryos
723 posts
 
I have the #31 transport and use it with the #35 dac.One look at them and it screams quality.I absolutely love the sound and don't care to upgrade,others opinion may be different .I have heard some say that these older dac's are now outdated and easily outperformed by new cheaper knock offs.That doesn't intimidate me, I also have the Krell md-1/sbp64x and I believe if they were to design and make this level of quality in todays currency it would be in the upper $40000 range.
Regards
George
yioryos's avatar
yioryos
723 posts
 
Teajay
When I wrote my above post and made mention about the crowd that is all over the new cutting edge digital it was you in my mind,I have noticed from way back that you pop in every ML debate,and vote against.Well you are perhaps right,after all you are well respected and very knowledge in these matters,but please understand that some of us don't care to chase the latest and greatest.Really I wonder how long before your digital gets outperformed by the newer thingamagic.In my opinion the ML gear is classic ,pretty,top performer and build like no other,I will keep mine.I also have the Krell md-1 transport and a spare NOS cdm-3 mechanism.
Regards
George
More to discover