I have now altered my system to gain better advantage of the dartzeel amplifier. I purchased the dartzeel preamplifier to connect to the dartzeel amplifier via the bnc cables.
The transparancy and mid-range detail of this combination is simply stunning. vocals sound so eerily real that you could be listening to a remote feed from a studio somewhere down the hall.
I had to sell the emmlabs dac and transport stack to pay for the pricey preamp (thanks chamber audio and jtinn for the very fair trade-in) and purchased the moderately priced used marantz reference sa7s1. It is difficult to compare directly the emmlabs and the marantz since i did run them through different preamps but the combination of dartzeel preamp and amp with evolution speakers and marantz cd player is much better than the same system with the emm labs. I think this is more about the greatness of the dartzeel and not about the emmlabs dac/transport. while the emmlabs preamp is very good, the synergy between the dartzeels is amazing.
the evolution speaker are made with great love and attention and I believe were designed to be optimally used with the dartzeel amplifier. while there is a great improvement with the addition of the remarkable dart preamp, the evolution mm2 is a epic achievment in of itself. it really puts the wilson models to shame. it is expensive but great value relative to other speakers.
The transparancy and mid-range detail of this combination is simply stunning. vocals sound so eerily real that you could be listening to a remote feed from a studio somewhere down the hall.
I had to sell the emmlabs dac and transport stack to pay for the pricey preamp (thanks chamber audio and jtinn for the very fair trade-in) and purchased the moderately priced used marantz reference sa7s1. It is difficult to compare directly the emmlabs and the marantz since i did run them through different preamps but the combination of dartzeel preamp and amp with evolution speakers and marantz cd player is much better than the same system with the emm labs. I think this is more about the greatness of the dartzeel and not about the emmlabs dac/transport. while the emmlabs preamp is very good, the synergy between the dartzeels is amazing.
the evolution speaker are made with great love and attention and I believe were designed to be optimally used with the dartzeel amplifier. while there is a great improvement with the addition of the remarkable dart preamp, the evolution mm2 is a epic achievment in of itself. it really puts the wilson models to shame. it is expensive but great value relative to other speakers.