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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #80 on: June 14, 2015, 01:30:27 AM »
Thank you for the awesome chart, it is very insightful!
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #81 on: June 14, 2015, 08:40:51 AM »
I think the chart will be particularly helpful to new DAC buyers as an interesting way of presenting the available tonal differences between DAC's

I am now breaking in an Audio-GD Master 7 using the Tanly XMOS DDC, i2S via HDMI.. this seems to me very detailed but I have never compared to the OR5..
I think this combination would perhaps qualify for the blue "Good Value" award.. and thus offer a good value to someone looking for a DAC to the warmer side of the chart..

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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #82 on: June 14, 2015, 02:22:27 PM »
Oh [redacted], why do you taunt me....

Any hints on when there will be [unredacted]?  Weeks, months, years?

And should a Gungnir/X-Sabre shopper hold off?


...or should this be its own topic?
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #83 on: June 14, 2015, 06:37:06 PM »
Is this chart for best DAC under 5K or Ygg is best irrespective of price.
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #84 on: June 14, 2015, 07:15:36 PM »
there is no such thing as best    ;D
« Last Edit: June 14, 2015, 11:17:25 PM by bixby »
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #85 on: June 14, 2015, 08:52:25 PM »
Quote from: MuZo2 on June 14, 2015, 06:37:06 PM
Is this chart for best DAC under 5K or Ygg is best irrespective of price.

The Bricasti costs nearly $10K....

Plus we've commented many times on the MSB platinum+diamond+mithril+admantium version losing to the Yggy in many respects. We've just never had one in house to A/B directly to include in the chart, but we've heard it enough in other setups and rigs to know what it can and can't do.

Nothing out there paints a more realistic sonic picture in the digital domain. You might get a DAC with a hyper analog or tube section that has better crystal clarity or blackness but they will all sound either more digital or euphonically colored without the same level of transparency to the recorded master.
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #86 on: June 14, 2015, 09:03:57 PM »
Quote from: bixby on June 14, 2015, 07:15:36 PM
there is no such thing as best   :)p13

There is a best. (I had $10K saved up for a DAC.) But what may be best for me may not be best for you. Hence a two dimensional plot. Again, I'd rather go for four or five dimensions and plot various sonic aspects on a tesseract, but most people would be confused.

For those who want a warmer more relaxing sound, get Yggy and some capacitors, or plug in a Chinese tube buffer. I know Jason and Moffat are horrified at this thought, but it might save you $5000 or more.
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #87 on: June 14, 2015, 09:29:42 PM »
What where the original dimensions of the plot gonna be?
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #88 on: June 14, 2015, 10:42:58 PM »
Quote from: Rotijon on June 11, 2015, 05:00:13 PM
Have anyone here heard a Mark Levinson No 36. Its a old dac from around 1992. Just found a deal on it, but i cant demo it. Considering your guys really like the theta and SF's im wondering what you guys think of this one.

No. 36 is very different than the Gen V and SF DACs. Very warm, very syrupy. Not loads of detail. No. 360/S is a much better DAC if you're after a Levinson. 30.6 is the best of them all, but the prices are beyond stupid, and they are very difficult to service.
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Re: Purrin's DAC Chart of Awesomeness.
« Reply #89 on: June 14, 2015, 11:03:47 PM »
Yeah, a lot of those big names (Wadia too) went toward that direction. Warm, syrupy, even thick, slow, muddy. At best what I wuold call "euphonic dead." A lot of audiophiles like that kind of sound. Viva Egoista 845 tends toward that.
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