How not to buy a DAC -- an audiofool journey


Recently I catalogued my journey of a DAC replacement after selling off my Nagra Tube DAC.

https://audiofool.substack.com/p/how-not-to-buy-a-dac-part-one

Comments, feedback, brickbats, likes, always welcome

My shortlist was:

  1. Abbas DAC 3000-5000$

  2. Lampizator GG1-GG3: 8000-10000$

  3. AMR DP777SE : 1500$

  4. Sforzato: 3300$

  5. Metronome AQWO 2

  6. Accuphase DP-770

  7. Ayon CD35 II HF

  8. Esoteric N-01XD

essrand

@alfa100 Thank you for your suggestion, I respect MSB a lot, but these days, they have lost my respect with their over-the-top pricing and their luxury-audio PR  and seem to have lost their the sheen of their salt-of-the-earth audio engineering values that they were known for.

essrand, I agree with you . I cannnot understand the need to make such expensive.  I would like to believe MSB could 

essrand, (sorry sent the above before completing ) that MSB could improve on their previous generation with minimal price increase.  I cannot afford their products.   Luckily I purchased my Analog DAC when I could afford.    

Finally wrote the part two of my DAC journey. Sorry it took so long, but lots of stuff happened in the meanwhile. Hope you like it. Cheers!

 

https://audiofool.substack.com/p/how-not-to-buy-a-dac-part-two

The Shindo Arome CD muching Trans is quite interesting. For some reason I don't yet understand my Prismsound Callia is now very very listenable.

It was hard to find any literature on this lil green box, so posting here. It's worth a gander if you come across one. 

 

Still burning it in. Will do a blind A/B test at some point post burn-in after a couple of weeks to eliminate confirmation-bias factor.