APL NWO2.5 ?

Are there any owners of NWO 2.5 in LA area? I Would love to audition this unit.

Apogee made an excellent effort to convey the sound signature of the NWO 2.5 and differentiate from typical digital sound. I agree, Live music should be the absolute reference. It will be also helpful if he comapres NW0 sound with Dcs elgar/purcell combo he has had.

Hifirabbit, could you also post comparision of NW02.5 with Emm labs?

Nilthepill, there will be one in the LA area very soon – a week or two. The owner is willing to accommodate audiophiles interested to audition the NWO-2.5

Please send me email if interested so I can forward it to the owner.

Regards,
Alex

Alex, could you post some specs on NWO 2.5? How do its internals differ from NWO1 and NWO2? Thanks, Guido

The best way to know which one is better,If you have a chance,bring them home, and connect them with your system,
some players they perform poorly in my system, some they perform well in my system,CONSIDER THE SERVICE ALSO.THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.DISREGARD BIAS OPINION.IF YOU WILL SEARCH THIS SITE.YOU WILL FIND OUT MOST OF THE POSTERS SOMETIMES CANT SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT THEIR FRIENDS PRODUCT.BEWARE.

Hello Guido, the NWO-1 was entirely single ended design with 10 DACs per channel and single ended output stage. The NWO-2 is all balanced with 10 x fully differential DAC design which equals 20 DACs per channel (10 + 10 in differential mode). The tube stage was also re-designed to differential mode featuring new output transformers. The NWO-2.5 has the same differential topology as NWO-2 but it comes re-designed DAC boards, re-designed Master Clock and additional PCB which allows for much purer digital signal path. Conversion of DSD to PCM is changed from the original 88.2K to 176.4K. Since the AKM DACs are capable of 216K input sample rate, all NWO players up-convert all formats to 211K.

Regards,
Alex