“The SW1X DAC III is quite simply one of the best DACs I have ever heard, perhaps even the best. If musical engagement factor with digital playback is the metric, then it is far and away the best DAC I have auditioned in my system." Grover Neville Dagogo.com February 2021”
"The SW1X has that captivating, dynamic, raucous, impossible to ignore quality that my vinyl playback system has. It leaps into the room, makes music somehow totally unfatiguing and yet demanding attention, saying ‘listen, must listen to me’, and generally makes a mess of other plans or obligations."
SW1X is going to explode on the audio scene. Every one of their products we have tried to date outperform not just other items in their price range but other items in general at any price. There is a rightness to them that you will recognize on your first listen. Each SW1X product delivers an array of qualities that you likely have not heard previously from any other single piece of gear. Grover Neville of Dagogo.com has skillfully crafted a review that articulately covers this in detail. The following are his descriptions of things he hears in analog playback that are present in the DAC III:
Many thanks,
Cheers,
Joe Cohen
The Lotus Group
415-897-8884

"The SW1X has that captivating, dynamic, raucous, impossible to ignore quality that my vinyl playback system has. It leaps into the room, makes music somehow totally unfatiguing and yet demanding attention, saying ‘listen, must listen to me’, and generally makes a mess of other plans or obligations."
SW1X is going to explode on the audio scene. Every one of their products we have tried to date outperform not just other items in their price range but other items in general at any price. There is a rightness to them that you will recognize on your first listen. Each SW1X product delivers an array of qualities that you likely have not heard previously from any other single piece of gear. Grover Neville of Dagogo.com has skillfully crafted a review that articulately covers this in detail. The following are his descriptions of things he hears in analog playback that are present in the DAC III:
- "...‘invisible’, ‘organic’, or ‘natural’ sounding bass. Bass that simply takes on the texture and characteristic of the recording."
- "...even modern vinyl recordings have a dynamic punch and transient definition to them that almost all modern digital recordings lack, primarily because they are heavily limited to be as loud as possible.
- "...tonal density,... Vinyl possesses an uncanny depth because it fills in all this space in a particularly vivid way. Even the very best DACs struggle to do this well."
"... the SW1X is lightning fast and ultra-resolving. More resolving than most of the DACs I have in my system, maybe even besting in resolution a $14,000 unit I won’t name. ... The detail is orderly and arranged, composed evenly from front to back, left to right, top to bottom and even diagonally according to room dimensions on particularly transparent recordings. One can simply hear more of the spatial cues, the microdynamics, the plankton of the recordings with the SW1X than with most DACs I have ever used and currently own or have in for audition. And I have some top notch competition in house.
Two things aid this spatial orderliness. First is a sense that bass is more impactful, punchier, not bloated but just more dynamic, more epic, of a larger scale around 50Hz than with typical digital. Second is that there is a density to the sound, a kind of filling in of missing spaces, which much digital lacks. It’s as if someone has filled in the spaces that were missing with much digital, seeming to have this effect somehow even on limited digital recordings. The macrodynamic character is enhanced, the transients are given life and jump to life, tangible and tactile, almost real enough to touch."
Grover Neville has captured the underlying qualities that you will hear in every one of SW1X's products. I haven't begun to talk about what I am hearing with the Level I phono stage! Stay tuned.
Call to arrange for an audition, we have a limited number of demo DACs and a growing wait list, or even better, if you are in the market for a DAC that will fulfill the promise that has been missing from your digital listening experience, call and order one today. Production is limited and wait times will only increase as word gets out. This is the best, most solid advice I can give. In the words of a reviewer who raved about one of our other products, "I would stake my reputation on it."
Two things aid this spatial orderliness. First is a sense that bass is more impactful, punchier, not bloated but just more dynamic, more epic, of a larger scale around 50Hz than with typical digital. Second is that there is a density to the sound, a kind of filling in of missing spaces, which much digital lacks. It’s as if someone has filled in the spaces that were missing with much digital, seeming to have this effect somehow even on limited digital recordings. The macrodynamic character is enhanced, the transients are given life and jump to life, tangible and tactile, almost real enough to touch."
Grover Neville has captured the underlying qualities that you will hear in every one of SW1X's products. I haven't begun to talk about what I am hearing with the Level I phono stage! Stay tuned.
Call to arrange for an audition, we have a limited number of demo DACs and a growing wait list, or even better, if you are in the market for a DAC that will fulfill the promise that has been missing from your digital listening experience, call and order one today. Production is limited and wait times will only increase as word gets out. This is the best, most solid advice I can give. In the words of a reviewer who raved about one of our other products, "I would stake my reputation on it."
Many thanks,
Cheers,
Joe Cohen
The Lotus Group
415-897-8884


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