Audio Gd dac

[john222]

Hello
how good is the Audio gd 7 mk3 Dac?
in comparison to the Moon 680 or Msb Discrate

 

[matthias]

Hello
how good is the Audio gd 7 mk3 Dac?
in comparison to the Moon 680 or Msb Discrate

AFAIK, there are not many Audio-gd owners on WBF but there is a lively thread with 763 pages on Head-Fi:

New Audio-gd R-7, R-7HE R-8, R-27, R-27HE, R-28 Flagship Resistor Ladder DACs and DAC/amps

This new DAC replaces the PCM1704-based DACs with dual FPGA-controlled resistor ladder DACs, similar in concept to DACs like the Rockna Wavedream and MSB DACs. http://www.audio-gd.com/R2R/R2R7/R2R7EN.htm Each channel uses a resistor ladder consisting of pairs of resistors to improve the...

www.head-fi.org

 

[Nuforce]

I have first hand experience of the AGD R7HE MK2 and it is a very good dac although bettered by my Acuhorn R2R T DHT tube dac.

I added a high quality ocxo and the Acuhorn was still superior to my ears so sold the AGD.

 

[limberpine]

I have the Audio GD master 7 Singularity and its a really good dac IMO. That Head - Fi thread is chock full of info and mods that you can do to them to eeek out all the performance. I ended up becoming enamored with Abbas dacs, so the Audio GD is in my office system.

Since I have 2 Abbas dacs now, I'll likely sell the Audio GD at some point, just because I'm not in a spot to go the distance with this dac to get the full mileage out of it.

I wills ay that the customer support from Audio GD is stellar. I bought my unit used and Kingwa make no issue of that and fully helped me with the firmware upgrades.