In 3 years you'll get something for the 2.1x - probably Lampizator - but never buy from companies who change model numbers a lot - the Chinese stuff can be very good but the second they drop a model - it's a paperweight. Let's say you want to buy a second-hand 3.1X or 4.1x in 3 years.
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So perhaps take a look at the resale value - people always say that the current darling will be the last stop on the audio merry-go-round and then a year later it's upgrade time. They also wouldn't take my KEF LS-50 and a second hand shop was interested until they found out it was made in China - and the offer dropped in half. LM is very good but it's made in China and the Hong Kong Chinese don't like made in China stuff (generally). I remember a dealer here when I mentioned I'd be willing to trade my Line Magnetic for an Audio Note - he just said keep the LM - we can't sell it - no one wants it. And it's also an established brand and one can sell them. By fairly they need to be compared in the same room with the same gear with the same music at the same volume level with your internal bias removed (Ie your favourite brand versus the one you don't know or like).Īs we are both Audio Note owners we will tend to be biased toward Audio Note for a variety of reasons such as "we bought the gear based on auditions and those auditions probably included a NOS DAC from Audio Note." So it's already a "known quantity" to us. Very few people, including reviewers or even some dealers, can compare all these things fairly. Personally, that doesn't bother me as I prefer 24/192 from my AN DAC than 24/192 into my 32/192 ESS Sabre DAC but I do get why people feel the need to match up numbers. The problem of course with AN DACs and presumably those companies that have more or less copied Audio Note is that you won't get the higher bit rate recordings natively - these DACs will effectively downsample them to RedBook. I feel the AN DAC is more of a chameleon and takes on what it gets. My Line Magnetic CD player and DAC sound "warmer" than my AN DAC but then that warmer is always there all the time on every recording. I suspect people think they'll sound warmer but that's not the case. NOS DACs rely heavily on the quality of the source disc player and recording because NOS DACs don't sample and process and "fix" the sound with smoothing and shaping and filling in the missing info with sampling. But this is about Ares 2 not the one you're looking at but maybe be sure of that if you are actually looking for a REAL NOS DAC over one that sort of lies about it. I watched a breakdown video of denafrips - they claim their DAC is NOS and apparently they are not - the measurements don't support them. Takman Non-magnetic Metal Film Resistors.This DAC in a smaller footprint with 6×4 rectification, IV transformers, Digital board, 6922 tube output stage makes for an incredible DAC platform for DIYers world wide! Specifications Output Tubes The 6×4 power supply we developed for the L1 DAC and L1 Phono uses the 6×4 7 pin rectifier tube which is baby brother of the 6X5 used in the M2 power supply found in our L2-L4 products. The line stage sounds very undigital and has a lovely natural sound. There are many 6922 tubes available, many being classic 50’s new old stock. An efficient and effective line stage to compliment the digital and power supply sections of the DAC 1.1. The 6922 output board has Takman non-magnetic film resistors and Audio Note Tin Foil Capacitors. I/V Transformers are used to maximize the energy transfer during the Current-to-Voltage phase of the conversion resulting in increased dynamics. Our I/V transformers were specially designed by Audio Note Engineering to provide an affordable yet highly effective transformer for the DAC 4.1. The method is perfect in its simplicity and is reflected in the sound quality. Rather than using feedback loops and high frequency oversampling clocks to produce an ‘approximation’ of the digital data as Delta-Sigma types, an R-2R DAC will turn on each required bit in the digital ‘word’ and the exact amount of current will flow from the chip to reconstruct the analog waveform. Delta-Sigma DACs and R-2R resistor ladder DACs are quite different. Using the Audio Note DAC strategy calls for a Resistor Ladder DAC architecture as opposed to the more common Delta-Sigma computer processing style DAC. R-2R v Delta-Sigma – Things to be aware of when choosing an audiophile level DAC
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