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    Why, oh why, does vinyl continue to blow away digital?

    We all love our gear and no doubt are biased in all kinds of ways. I suggest checking out the EC Designs NL offerings especially the SX which is a DAC Amp. They are a small outfit (2 brothers) in Holland but have created some innovative devices that in my opinion put the digital v vinyl...
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    DAC comparison and recommendation request

    The MacBook Pro is connected to mains and with a toslink cable into a 3 way splitter, then one cable into the DAC. However as I’ve said it doesn’t make any difference what source I use now or how it’s connected. This has not been the case before, that’s why I had kept changing, tweaking and...
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    DAC comparison and recommendation request

    Now I use a MacBook Pro to stream Tidal (and an Audiolab 6000 CD player). Feeding the EC Designs SX straight into Omega Super Alnicos. Dead simple, sweet, dynamic, transparent and sublime. In the past 10 years I’ve tried Antipodes EX music server, a Laufer memory player, fanless NUCs with audio...
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    DAC comparison and recommendation request

    Great story, that just popped up in my inbox. Just thought I’d let you know that after 10 years of trying to solve my irritation with digital music, I have searched and tried all the fashionable and tweak trends, (too many to list here). I have now settled on the EC designs NL, SX DAC. This...

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