I recently did a dac shoot out , and aside from the obvious winner there was something that I never heard before.
The speakers were Nora baby grand ver 111.
Amps were the vtl deluxe 300 monoblocks tube.
aesthetix
Romulus DAC / CD player (similar to Pandora DAC but with CD drive).
MSB platinum plus
Bricasti M1
Source Mac laptop running audirvana USB connection.
Red book and hirez used .
Ps audio power plant .
Now given the msb is more money then any of them I do understand how it blew them out of the water in every way.
But the one thing I never heard before was the sound was constantly changing on the formulas sac.
As the msb gave us that we are there sound , the Romulus did to . But the band was not there . It was almost like there where freq,s that played very well and others that did not. It did the samething on all music. I have heard before dacs that could not keep the image stable , but this did the same thing with the sounds of the music . And it was not just the imaging that changed it was the quality of reproduction.
How is this possible and has anyone hear ever heard something like this. I am not a reviewer but did really want to compare my MSB stack to others . Help please .
Al. D
The speakers were Nora baby grand ver 111.
Amps were the vtl deluxe 300 monoblocks tube.
aesthetix
Romulus DAC / CD player (similar to Pandora DAC but with CD drive).
MSB platinum plus
Bricasti M1
Source Mac laptop running audirvana USB connection.
Red book and hirez used .
Ps audio power plant .
Now given the msb is more money then any of them I do understand how it blew them out of the water in every way.
But the one thing I never heard before was the sound was constantly changing on the formulas sac.
As the msb gave us that we are there sound , the Romulus did to . But the band was not there . It was almost like there where freq,s that played very well and others that did not. It did the samething on all music. I have heard before dacs that could not keep the image stable , but this did the same thing with the sounds of the music . And it was not just the imaging that changed it was the quality of reproduction.
How is this possible and has anyone hear ever heard something like this. I am not a reviewer but did really want to compare my MSB stack to others . Help please .
Al. D