Anythoughts on this awesome dac from Schwitz? I just have one on audition and comparing with Tamabaqui.
@masaccio, in reference to LAN cables; did you swap out internal LAN cables? I own +player and wondering if it would be worth pursuing this upgrade?Hi,
I have 2 NADACs, one is single box the other is NADAC + power. If you will run the LAN option, please note that NADAC is using Ravenna which is the recording studio technology developed by merging. Unlike UPnP/DLNA, Ravenna is the real time data transfer protocol. Based on this technology, NADAC gives us very clean and high speed sound. If you go to NADAC player, you can use RAAT (perhaps able to use Ravenna as well when you don’t use Roon).
In my opinion, NADAC is sensitive for LAN cable. A small tweak for improvement is changing the internal LAN cable from the original to your favorite. The sound will be changed significantly. I am afraid no chance to use “merging clock” but I know NADAC has the external clock sensitivity. I am using Antelope audio’s trinity and 10M oxco of Mutec (merging clock uses 625kHz. I don’t know why they set this freq but we can use other company’s clocks such as mutec, antelope, etc.) on the other hand, Headphone output quality is not so great as XLR/RCA output, if you are a serious headphone user, better to consider to buy headphone amps.
Regarding the Molamola, I haven’t heard yet. Perhaps you thought NADAC was better than molamola? NADAC released in 2016 but still having sound advantages due to audio over IP.
Hope this helps.
@masaccio, thank you for your feedback and advise. I will check out AR LAN, my personal two favorite LAN’s are from JCAT and Network Acoustics. I will post my impressions once I accomplish this upgrade.Hi,
Thank you for your question.
Yes, I replaced the internal LAN cable. I tested (1) acoustic revive 0.5meters and (2) AET sin LAN 0.8 meters. Both showed better results than the original, unable to imagine to move back to the original LAN cable. (Also tried to change the internal clock cables but it looks they are glued with rear panel. )
please be careful about the static electricity not to damage the NADAC circuits. Perhaps soft and short cables are easier to install.
Hope this helps.