Dac-50

[meltemi]

Originally Posted by C4STR0

I'd imagine you're coming from the experience of jumping up in new units nearly every release.

Not quite. I could absolutely not afford to do that. Took only a few big steps during the years:

1) January 1985 – March 1989 (4yrs 2 mths): Marantz CD-74
2) March 1989 – November 1990 (1yr 8 mths): second hand Accuphase DP-80 / DC-81
3) November 1990 – January / June 2002 (11 yrs 7 mths): Accuphase DP-80L / DC-81L
4) January / June 2002 – June 2014 (12 yrs): DP-80L and dCS 974 Upsampler / dCS 954 DAC
5) August 2011: second hand Accuphase DP-700, resold quickly because its DAC had sonically absolutely no chance against dCS 974 / dCS 954
6) June 2014 – September 2019 (5 yrs 3 mths): Accuphase DP-900 / DC-901 and dCS 974 / dCS 954
7) September 2019 - ?: Accuphase DP-900, dCS 974 Upsampler and dCS Vivaldi v2 DAC

The system currently used consists of
the Accuphase DP-900 transport (bought June 2014; >6 yrs), the dCS 974 Upsampler (bought January 2002; >19 yrs) and the dCS Vivaldi v2 DAC (bought September 2019; >1 yr).