Cool I'd certainly love to hear some of their tube gear sometime perhaps they will come to CAF one year. Or maybe you guys can encourage Colin @ Gestalt to take a room there one year he's got some excellent lesser heard brands.
Tron Atlantic dac disrupts both Audiophile and The Audiophile’s Wife.
We had the opportunity to listen to the Tron Atlantic dac in our home last week. I currently own a Mojo Audio Evo dac upgraded to what was esentially the Pro level. In 2021 it retailed for $12,000. We love the Mojo dac as it simply sounds so beautiful and un-digital if you will.
The Tron Atlantic is really not very well known and rarely gets any mention on the audio forums. This is the main reason I wanted to post on the Tron. If you are looking for a DAC that delivers “end game” sonics, then this dac should be on your list. They sell for $11-$17,000 depending on the version. We listened to the top GT model.
We have heard some fantastic dacs in our home selling for $5500-$14,000 and the Tron just moved us more. Let me say this fellow Agoners and I say this after some considerable thought. This single piece of audio gear elevated the realism and emotional beauty of music to a higher level than any other “rectangular box” we have placed in our system. It connected us to our music in a new and special way.
The inner detail and nuance of this dac is quite extraordinary. I really don’t want to use audiophile terms to communicate what the “sound” is like. They just don’t get at the truth of the experience well or completely enough. My wife was moved to tears listening to Heldinnenleben play Por Una Cabeza on their Die Kolophonistinnen recording. I have not seen music influence her like this before. A first. No matter what we played, the music moved and engaged us more deeply.
This dac is priced beyond what many of us can or will spend. This includes myself at this particular point in time. However, for those of you with the budget and in the market for a truly special dac, you are now aware of this wonderful music maker. I was also auditioning another dac priced within my budget that my dealer suggested vs. the Mojo. In the end, I felt that dac was simply a lateral move vs. my Mojo Dac. I was not expecting the Tron Atlantic to disrupt our home music experience so overwhelmingly. I really thought no dac could do that vs. my throughly enjoyable Mojo. Oh well, I was wrong.
I cannot tell you how this dac stacks up against the more known audiophile brands selling for $20,000-$30,000. Brands like MSB, Lampizator etc…I just don’t have that level of first hand experience. I do know the builder set out to make this dac for himself only. Why? Because he had yet to hear any dac that moved him like SOTA analog.
Here is a link to the Tron website: https://tron-electric.co.uk/
Here is a link to the Tron dealer I know (Colin): https://gestalt.audio/
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Hi Bill , Thanks for posting your listening impressions. I wasn’t aware that they offered a DAC. I was introduced to Tron Audio amplification about 10 years ago via High Water Sound rooms at audio shows. Proprietor Jeffrey "always" has superb sounding system set ups and often used Tron amplifiers . I’ve heard their 211 and 300b SETs and both are divine sounding. If the Tron DAC is cut from similar cloth (And I’m sure this is the case) then you and your wife’s emotional response and engagement comes as no surprise. Some audio components have that very special ability to simply sound natural and provide a powerful sense of realism and emotion. Charles |
@grannyring - Bill thanks for sharing. Without derailing the thread , as a Mojo owner can I ask what the other DAC you also auditioned that you felt was a sideways move? If you prefer me to pm you just let me know |
@grannyring Is this a DAC you'd ever be able to upgrade -- or are the internal parts on this DAC where they need to be? |
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