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I am all Audio research except for digital.
I suggest you to get a listen to Meitner Dac 1. It is a truly great piece of technology and, as far as I am concerned, is the most «analog». Not those «made in China» stuff but a proud «made in Canada». |
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Oh...and do not cheap out on this. You have an amazing system that will reveal the limitations of a dac that is just "good". You need a "great" dac to go with that system. I honestly think that you'll regret it if you spend less than $5k. There may be some that I haven't heard that will surprise you, but my experience is that you need to dig deep to get a "great " dac.
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For CD ripping I just recommend a windows computer and dBpoweramp. It works great. The bargain DAC of all and one of the best for the money is the Chord Hugo. However, given your rig, if you are looking in the 7-12K range, I would highly recommend the Analog. |
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Take a look at the Aesthetix Pandora Signature. It's stablemate the Romulus, just got a TAS Product of the Year Award.
There's one listed on Audiogon. |
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Thanks for all advice, definitely now I need a lot of time to spend reading reviews and listening demo. When I started life in that world I decided to spend maximum 2/3000$ for the amplifier, then I listened integrated ampli and I was close to buy the AR Vi75 however if was already out of budget. than I lissened a system with pre and final ( nagra system ) another word and at the end I bought the ref10. With DAC I whant feel the difference for spend more money but definitely here in Italy isn't easy make a test with DACs. I read a good reviews about Chord and Debussy but I never listen that's systems. However reading your advice looks very important the DAC too so I decided to improve my budget for that buy. Unfortunately doesn't look an easy decision . I hope you will go haed helping me in that have d decision
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I use db poweramp on a windows based computer.
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Till now I understood to erase from the buy list the AR DAC's. About the esoteric k03 is a CD reader too, so I think will be too expensive for that reason and I don't need it. So at the moment we have :
Chord Hugo Chord QBD 76 HDSD ( that already was one of my best choose ) Bryston BDA 2 ( at the moment one of the best choice for me ) Meitner MA1 Berkeley ( I didn't understood wich models ) Lampizator Van Alstine FET Metrum HEX Debussy DAC ( the other option in my first list ) Analog DAC Aesthetics pandora signatur Esotherics ( I have to check if they have a simple DAC ) |
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For rip CDs I was looking for the NAIM unity serve
But with yours advice I will take only tha software dBpoweramp saving a lot of money to spend on DAC thanks Alki ! |
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How about DCS Vivaldi?
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